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Metro operator adds more trains
2009-08-06The metro operator, Shanghai Shentong Group, is busy adding new trains to increase the Metro's limited capacity. Eighteen seven-carriage trains, which can each carry more than 2,100 passengers, are e...
Chongqing Wild Zoo to build five-star hotel
2009-08-05A five-star resort hotel is under construction in Chongqing Wild Zoo in Yongchuan. According to an official of the zoo, rare b...
CNTA publishes tourist satisfaction survey results for China
2009-08-05Chinese National Tourism Administration has published the result of its tourist satisfaction survey for the second quarter of 2009. The survey covered 40 sample cities of 31 provinces, mor...
Some up and down news on HK visits
2009-08-04Although Shanghai tourist numbers bound for Hong Kong increased in July, they were well down compared to the same vacation period last year, city immigration police said yesterday. Tourists leaving S...
Bus station link between Kunshan City and Shanghai Metro
2009-08-04Construction is ready to start on a bus station linking Shanghai's longest and fastest subway line and Kunshan, an important commercial city 50 kilometers north of Shanghai in Jiangsu Province. Desig...
Direct flight launched from Hangzhou to Kalibo
2009-07-31The first direct flight between Hangzhou, China, and Kalibo, Philippines, was successfully launched by Philippine Airlines recently. This is also the first regular direct flight from mainland China t...
South Australia launches Chinese websites
2009-07-31The South Australia Tourism Commission recently launched websites in simplified and traditional Chinese to promote tourism from China. The simplified Chinese site mainly serves mainland Chinese whil...
Yangzhou welcomes its first five-star hotel
2009-07-30Yangzhou State Guesthouse was recently rated as the first five-star hotel in Yangzhou in southern Jiangsu. Located adjacent to the Thin West Lake the hotel occupies an area of 20,000 square meters wi...
China Southern plans two International routes
2009-07-30In August, China Southern Airlines plans to launch two new international direct routes from Guangzhou. A direct charter flight from Guangzhou to Surat Thani in Thailand will take off at 20:30 Beijin...
Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway construction to complete next year
2009-07-29Construction of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, which will cut traveling time between two cities from 12 hours to four, will be completed by the end of next year. It will open in 2012 and wi...
Chongqing closes 199 unlicensed small hotels
2009-07-29After a four-month exercise by the Chongqing Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce and the Chongqing Public Security Bureau, 199 small unlicensed hotels have been closed, and another 914 ...
China's largest desert lake may vanish in decades
2009-07-28China's largest desert lake - Hongjiannao(shanxi province)- is still shrinking as a result of climate change and human activities, and may vanish in a few decades, experts have warned. Just 10 years ...
Pengzhou to build 64 village resort hotels
2009-07-28Pengzhou in Sichuan province has published a document on accelerating the development of village resort hotels for the reconstruction of village hotels after last year's May 12 earthquake.The developm...
Beijing exhibition to display relics of ancient China, Rome
2009-07-27East will meet West at a major exhibition showcasing relics from ancient China and Rome in Beijing later this month. The exhibition will feature 489 items dating from China's Qin and Han dynasties (...
Subway construction kicks off in northeast China
2009-07-27Dalian, one of the largest cities in northeast China's Liaoning Province, started the construction of its first metro system project Saturday. The project includes Subway Lines 1, 2 and 4. With an es...
New sea route connects four Asian countries
2009-07-24A new sea route that connects Sokcho in South Korea, Hunchun in China, Niigata in Japan, and Zarubino in Russia is expected to be launched on July 28, 2009. Currently the Hunchun-Niigata route takes ...
New five-star hotel for Jiangjin Chongqing
2009-07-24The construction of a new five-star hotel — Fuqi International Grand Hotel — has started in the east of Chongqing's Jiangjin district. Covering an area of 45,000 square meters, the 400 bed hotel is e...
Key expressway begins construction in China's Xinjiang
2009-07-23A key expressway in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region began construction on Wednesday in a move to improve the region's road network and serve its economic development. The 135-km ex...
Henan publishes Penalties Standards on Tourism
2009-07-23The newly published Henan Administrative Penalties Standards on Tourism specifies penalties for activities that are against the Regulations on Travel Agencies implemented on May 1, 2009. Travel agenc...
Chaozhou travel agencies sign self-discipline pact
2009-07-22To regulate the tourism industry, travel agencies in Chaozhou, Guangdong province have signed a self-discipline convention, and have also set guide prices for three tourist routes. The three routes c...
