China Has 122 First-Class Tourism CitiesThe National Tourism Administration of China has selected another 68 cities as the country's first-class tourism cities, which makes the total number now 122.He Guangwei, director of the administration said at a conference on national tourism that the selection will benefit the healthy development of China's tourism industry and help tourism take a bigger share of the economic growth. He pledged that China will try to improve the environment of major scenic spots and the services so as to develop into a large tourism country by the year 2020. The National Tourism Administration started the selection in 1995 and 54 cities passed the review and became the first group of first-class tourism cities in China in 1999. |
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