Local folk-customs opened to tourists in Tianjin(20030929)A women team perform dancing dragon on streets in Tianjin to welcome visitors Sept. 28, 2003. A series of tourism sites including local folk-customs are open to tourists around the National Day Holidays. (Xinhua) |  |
Lijinag attracts lots of tourists (20030928)Tourists have photos taken at the glacier garden on the Yulong Snow Mountain in Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 27, 2003. Yulong Snow Mountain, famous for its unique and diversified glacial landforms, attracts lots of tourists at home and abraod prior to the National Day Holidays. (Xinhua) |  |
Comprehensive restoration of West Lake completed(20030925)The photo taken on Sept. 24, 2003 shows the restored beautiful scenery on the western bank of the picturesque West Lake in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province. A comprehensive restoration of West Lake has been finished with efforts of the local authorities, resulting in a redivivus of the overall scenery of 300 years ago. (Xinhua) |  |
Tourist Spot Targets More Tourists(20030918) young couple takes part in a re-enactment of a traditional Chinese wedding cermony at Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai Sept. 17,2003. The popular tourist spot is seeking to attract visitors from home and abroad. (eastday) |  |
"Cultural Gallery of Ethnic Tibet and Qiang" to Attact More Tourists (20030918)The photo taken on Sept. 6 shows a Tibetan grandma and her great-grandson at their home in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Aba in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The local authorities starts in 2003 the constructiion of a 150-kilometer-long "Cultural Gallery of Ethnic Tibet and Qiang" in the Ethnic Tibetan and Qiang community living areas for developing its tourism.กก (Xinhua) |  |
The Fifth Quanzhuo Tourism Festival in Hui'an County(20030912)Two local women in traditional costumes comb for each other during the Fifth Quanzhuo Tourism Festival in Hui'an County in east China's Fujian Province, Sept. 10, 2003. Currently, the county's unique traditional costumes such as yellow bamboo hat, color headcloth and black trousers have been changed a lot by adding some modern style of decorations. (Xinhua) |  |
Xinjiang in Tourism Season (20030905)Visitors look at unearthed relics at the Turpan Museum in Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 2, 2003. Though it's in Autumn, temperatures in Turpan still maintain over 37 degrees Celsius, which do not hinder the increasing number of tourists. (Xinhua) |  |
Potala Palace Opens Six and Half Hours Daily (20030819)Visitors take photos at the Potala Palace, a tourist destination in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug.18, 2003. To better protect the world-famous palace, local tourism and cultural relic authorities decided at the end of May that the palace can receive no more than 850 visitors and pilgrims a day and is open six and a half hours a day. (Xinhua) |  |
Monks Perform Chinese Kongfu (20030818)Monks perform Chinese kongfu in the Shaolin Temple Wushu Center in central China's Henan Province on Aug. 17, 2003. The center was reopened on Aug. 17 following a year of reconstruction. It enables tourists to know better the Shaolin kongfu and its spirit. (Xinhua) |  |
Guangxi Lotus Scenary(20030814)The photo taken on Aug. 12, 2003 shows the landscape of a lotus flower pool in the Lotus Scenery Zone in Zhongshan County of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Zone. Dubbed as a 10-mile-long gallery in east Guangxi, the zone appeals to sightseers from both home and abroad with its unique type of idyllic and harmonic natural scenery. |  |
