WillFreelance Guides Make Tourism More Enjoyable?

正In recent years,all kinds of disputes have frequently arisen between tourists,tour guides,and the travel agencies that dispatch the guides.Complaints have surged about tour guides forcing tourists to go shopping while on tour.In such cases,sightseeing programs are squeezed,and tourists end up paying much more for their trip than     

J-CURVE EFFECT

<正>Annual conference outlines economic roadmap for 2023 Traveling abroad is on the to-do list of many Chinese in2023.Searches for international flights on Ctrip,one of China’s largest online travel agencies,saw a sevenfold increase in the 15 minutes after new policies were issued on December 26,2022.     

Angels or Demons

<正>The roles and motives of the big three rating agencies need to be reconsidered Following the global financial crisis in 2008,rating agencies Moody’s,Standard&Poor’s and Fitch Ratings came under the limelight.They were deeply implicated in the sub-prime     

ECONOMY

正Bridge Opens Cars run on the newly opened Yangtze River Bridge in Maanshan,Anhui Province on December 31,2013.Upon the completion of the bridge,the travel time between BridgeOpens Hefei,capital of Anhui,and Shanghai will be shortened by an hour and the travel time between Hefei and Hangzhou,capital of Zhejiang Province,will be shortened by half an hour.     

Life on the Fast Train

High-speed rail travel between Beijing and Shanghai eases travel pressures and sparks business opportunities After 10 years of evaluation and research,the express railway between Beijing and Shanghai is finally under construction,according to Liu Zhijun,Minister of Railways     

Travel Notes

To travel to Labrang Monastery from Beijing is simple. First travel to Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province. Flights take two and a half hours and leave every day of the week. The airport is more than one hour from Lanzhou city, but transportation …     

WEEKLY WATCH

OPINION Celebrities Should Know BetterSeveral Central Government agencies, including the State Administration of Radio Film and Television, the Ministry of Health and State Food and Drug Administration, recently issued a ban on entertainment stars and celebrities endorsing drugs in commercials.     

JUMPING ON THE ONLINE BANDWAGON

正Government agencies endeavor to make the fast expanding micro-blogosphere more transparent China's government agencies and officials seem to have been struck by micro-blogging fever.The number of verified government-run micro-blog accounts on Sina     

TOURISM INFORMATION

Ice Lanterns in Yinchuan Ice lanterns and sculptures, fireworks and swarms of people created a bustling winter travel scene in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, at the opening of the China Ningxia Urban and Rural Travel Festival.     

Telling China's Story

正Multilingual versions of the second volume of Xi's book reach a wider international audience The multilingual versions of the second volume of Xi Jinping:The Governance of China were launched in London on April 11,at a ceremony attended by over 300 political and business leaders,academics and representatives of publishing agencies from 14 countries and