China Travel & Tourism News

The foreign trade volume of China's Pearl River Delta (PRD) region reached 514.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2005, or 36.2 percent of the country's total. It is the first time t...

China on Wednesday imposed a temporary ban on pork imports from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands over a dioxin scare in the European countries. According to the General ...

China needs to boost long-term investment to maintain sustainable economic growth, the China Securities Journal cited a research report as saying on Wednesday. The report, ...

India's Suzlon Energy Limited, the world's sixth largest wind turbine manufacturer, has recently settled in Tianjin Huayuan Industrial Park, a sub-park of the Tianjin High-Tech Ind...

China Radio International (CRI), China's only radio station running overseas service, said on Thursday it is going to launch FM radio service in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, on Satur...

Some 808 million people took a foreign holiday during the past year despite the threat of terrorism and natural disasters, the World Tourism Organization (WTO) said Tuesday. Th...

Thailand and Laos have agreed to launch a bus service between Thailand's northern Ubon Ratchathani city and Pakse town in the southern Lao province of Champassak to promote tourism...

The Fifth Beijing Folk Culture Festival will begin on January 28, one day before Spring Festival, at the Dongyue Temple in Beijing. For the first time in the festival's history,...

A temporary charter flight from Lijiang to Hong Kong will open on January 15th. It will faciliate increased transportation between the two places during the festival holidays. T...

A museum about music, its culture and development, the first of its kind in China, was opened to the public on Sunday in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province....

All the major travel agencies in this capital city of Beijing have had their travel groups to Africa fully booked up despite still one week to go before the long holiday of the Chi...

Beijing's tourism industry enjoyed substantial growth in 2005 and is on-track to become a first-class international tourist destination. According to statistics released by the...

China's flagship grid company, the State Grid Corp of China (SGCC), said it will spend 800 billion yuan (US$98.6 billion) over the next five years to upgrade the country's electric...

China announced yesterday that its leading 169 State-owned enterprises (SOE) contributed to a solid overall 2005 performance, despite a handful still experiencing losses. ...

Shenzhen handled a record number of containers in 2005, keeping its ranking as the world's fourth-busiest port, after rising trade increased cargo shipments through the southern Ch...

Airbus is considering to build a final assembly line for single-aisle aircraft in China this year, the European aviation giant has said. It is working on a feasibility stud...

Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics and Beijing Urban Survey Organization of the National Bureau of Statistics jointly released on January 22nd that Beijing's per capita GDP exc...

South China's Guangdong Province, an economic powerhouse, has imported more than 10 million tons of coal last year, the provincial customs statistics revealed. According to...

Profit of China's 169 central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) grew 27.9 percent year on year to 628 billion yuan (78 billion US dollars) in 2005, a senior official said here Monday....

Global business mammoths, which previously loathed binding requirements of technological transfer for direct investment in China, are now eager to move their research and developme...

CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corporation) Limited announced here Monday that its total budgeted net production volume in 2006 will increase 9 percent over the previous year. ...

European aviation giant Airbus is likely to establish a final assembly line for single-aisle aircraft in China this year, Airbus said yesterday. It is working with China's ...

US-based General Electric has won an 196-million-dollar bid to help build China's West-East Gas Pipeline. GE's oil and gas division signed an agreement with the West-East G...

Managerial staffs of China's major state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are permitted to hold shares of their own firms during assets or shares increase of the SOEs, according to the cou...

Shenzhen has become the largest importer of goods from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in China since the country and ASEAN began building a Free Trade Zone a ye...

The trade volume between north China's Hebei Province and Taiwan surged by 12.9 percent year-on-year to reach 750 million U.S. dollars last year, the latest customs statistics have...

China National Petroleum Corp, the parent of top Asian largest oil producer PetroChina Co Ltd., aims to boost sales to 1 trillion yuan ($124 billion) by 2010, a company-owned Web s...

China Merchants Bank, which is seeking to become the first mainland bank to be listed both at home and overseas, plans to raise more than HK$10 billion through an initial public of...

China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd., the Hong Kong-listed arm of the world's largest mobile operator by subscribers, said Friday it added 3.96 million new customers in December, its bigg...

Visitor arrivals to Hong Kong grew to more than 23 million in 2005, Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) announced on Friday. According to a press release from the HKTB, the numb...