According to Kyodo News, Air China will terminate the Chongqing to Central Japan International Airport (Centrair) route from March 28, 2010, and it will launch a new route from Chengdu to Centrair on the same day.
This new route will be operated daily with a stopover in Shanghai; it is expected to attract more business travelers and tourists.
Following last year’s total solar eclipse on July 22, 2009, the longest this century, the longest annular solar eclipse this millennia will be witnessed in China on January 15. The maximum magnitude annular eclipse (95%) will be visible in Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Henan and Shandong during a period from about 16:40 to 17:05 local time, while other regions will be able to witness a lesser eclipse, lasting from about 15:00 to 18:00 local time.
According to astronomers, the annular solar eclipse is calculated to be the longest one in the next one thousand years, as an eclipse lasting longer than this one won’t occur until 3043. Astronomers said in a statement that the maximum duration for the annular solar eclipse will be 11 minutes and 8 seconds, beginning at 07:06:33 UT over the Indian Ocean.
On Nov 17th, the ever largest group of terra cotta warriors was exhibited in the city of Washington, D.C of the United States.
The exhibition, themed by “Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor” officially met the American public yesterday, on Nov 19th.
According to the officials from Shaanxi museum, the exhibition showcased 15 life-size terra cotta figures, including nine warriors, and 100sets of objects, including weapons, stone armor, coins, jade ornaments, roof tiles and decorative bricks, and a bronze crane and swan.
To promote Guangxi’s tourism resources and attract more Hong Kong tourists, Guangxi Tourism Administration has signed a tourism cooperation agreement with China National Travel Service (Hong Kong) for the year 2010.
HK CTS will introduce series of Guangxi tourist products to Hong Kong citizens based on different Hong Kong tourist seasons. Apart from the traditional tourist products, it will focus more on sending four or five-day regular groups and eight-day groups to Guangxi.
After nearly 20 years of trying to court the Chinese government, the Walt Disney Company has won approval to build a theme park in Shanghai, the largest and riches city in China. The approval, will allow the entertainment giant to make what is expected to be one of the largest-ever foreign investments in China.
The Disneyland Theme Park in Shanghai would eventually sprawl over as much as 1,700 acres of Shanghais Pudong District, and would acquire an investment of as much as 4 billion US dolla…
On November 11, 2009, there will be Bullet trains to start running from Qingdao to Hankou (in Wuhan City, Hubei Province) on November 11th. The train number is D352/3. By then, the whole journey from Qingdao to Hankou will take only 11 hours, and it will be about 10 hours shorter than now. Its the first berth bullet train to run in Wuhan.
It will take only 11 hours and 26 minutes to complete the whole journey, 10 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the previous time. It’s the first berth bullet…
Chengdu City, capital of Sichuan Province, will build a wetland park at the 2010 World Expo that uses soil and vegetation to purify rainwater.
The 2,680-square-meter park in the Puxi section of the Expo site will be the city’s Urban Best Practices Area showcase.
The 20 million yuan (US$2.92 million) park can purify about 30 cubic meters of water everyday and the water will be used to flush toilets on the Expo site.
The park will be shaped like a fish as Chengdu is known as the land of f…
The Xinjiang Kanas scenic spot signed a 5-billion-yuan (US$0.73 billion) tourism investment deal on Tuesday with Oumning Suuess Limited to build Asia’s largest ski resort, Xinhua reported today.
The Kanas International Ski Resort will include a skiing site, a man-made lake, a golf course, and hotels and villas.
The deal is reportedly the largest planned tourism project since the July 5 riot, which badly damanged Xinjiang’s tourism industry.
Construction of the first phase of the proje…
Construction on a highly anticipated rail line linking Chengdu in Sichuan province to Lhasa in Tibet will not start this month, according to the Ministry of Railway, contradicting recent media reports.
The railway’s planners are still examining intricate and difficult geological conditions along the proposed lines, according to the ministry spokesman, who was quoted by Xinhua News Agency.
A new start date has not been set, the spokesman said.
The railway’s construction will have to over…
There will be more than 100 free shuttle buses provided for visitors from pavilion to pavilion, and ferries will carry them across the Huangpu River to ensure convenient transportation throughout the site of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.
Visitors will be able to find a shuttle bus station every 300 meters within the 5.28-square-kilometer Expo site, and buses will roll by every three minutes, Huang Jianzhi, deputy director of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, told a news confe…
