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29 April 2007Railway Transportation Braces for Golden Week
The passenger transportation during this year's Labor Day Holiday has started on April 28 and will end on March 7. It's the first golden week holiday following the sixth nationwide railway speed upgrade.
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29 April 200730,000 to Visit Lhasa by Air in May Day Holiday
The Gongga Airport in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, is now making full preparations to embrace the upcoming May Day Holiday, as over 30,000 tourists are expected to visit Tibet by air during the period from May 1 to May 7.More
28 April 2007Record numbers to travel over Golden Week holiday
The number of people traveling during the coming Golden Week, May 1 to 7, is likely to set a new record, a senior official said.More
28 April 2007Three Gorges changed after the water storage of the Dam
The Three Gorges Area used to be famous for the precarious landscapes there. However, after the water storage of the Three Gorges Dam Project, the water level in the area has reached 156 m, with quite a large part of landscapes there there having been submerged under water. Today's Three Gorges Area looks less precarious but even more attractive.More
27 April 2007Smoking eliminated in signed Olympic hotels
The Beijing Municipal Department of Health, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Beijing Municipal Tourism Administration and Beijing Aiguo Weisheng have jointly issued a circular on carrying out a smoking ban among the restaurants in Beijing in an effort to provide a smoke-free Olympic Games in 2008.More
27 April 2007Olympic torch relay revealed
Beijing Olympics organizers on Thursday announced an ambitious plan for the torch relay for the 2008 Games which will see the sacred flame reach the world's highest peak and travel through 135 cities around the world. More
27 April 2007Souvenir badges for Olympic Torch Relay released
A series of souvenir badges for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay were released in Beijing on Friday.More
26 April 2007Xiushui Street aims to regain customers favor
Xiushui Street in Beijing was once a role model for the success of non-governmental free trade business in China. However, as China strengthened its efforts to protect intellectual property rights, Xiushui Street, which boosted its business mainly by selling fake foreign-brand products, suffered a setback.More
24 April 2007Torrential rains destroy 1,300 homes in south China
Sudden torrential downpours in China's southeastern province of Guangdong destroyed more than 1,300 houses and forced 20,000 people from their homes, the official Xinhua agency reported late on Tuesday.More
22 April 2007Tourists drawn to historical water town
Located at the center of the regions south of the Yangtze River and situated near Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou, the millennium-old water town of Zhouzhuang is a must-see spot for tourists to the region. More
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