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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…

The first session of Shanghai Tourism Food Festival will be held during September 13 to October 6. This festival aims to boost the food market of Shanghai, and to build Shanghai into a more attractive food city, as well as to welcome the grand Shanghai World Expo 2010. During this event, four series…

According to Chinese news, tourist attractions Tianchi Jiuhuashan Anhui Provinceis expected toopen on October 1.

Jiuhua Tianchi major tourist attractions projects suburb to play advantage and pillow Hill have characteristics of water resources, relying on the main urban areas, scenic areas and docking Jiuhuashan to keep in good health for leisure, to create eco-licensing, and leisure articles, create a dream Tianchi , quiet mountain of the tourism image.In May last year, the Tourism Developme…

The north park of the Beijing Olympic Forest Park will finally open to visitors on October 1 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, the Beijing News reported Wednesday.

The whole Park, including the north and south parts, will be open to visitors free of charge for the national holiday week that begins on October 1. After October 8, visitors will then have to pay a small fee to get in.

The north park, which comprises 300 hectares of the 680-hect…

The steel structure of a railway station in the Hongqiao Integrated Transport Hub is expected to be completed by the end of next month, a month ahead of schedule, the Shanghai Railway Bureau said yesterday.

Meanwhile, construction of an elevated road connecting the transport hub with downtown will start next month and should be completed in time for the 2010 World Expo.

About 35 percent of the above-ground steel structure of the Hongqiao Railway Station, the Shanghai end of the high-speed …

The Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed railway, which will cut travel time to 75 minutes, is set to open in July, Wenhui Daily reported today.
Currently it takes at least 120 minutes to travel from Shanghai to Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, by train.
The train will reach speed of over 300 kilometers per hour.
Construction started in July last year on the 300km rail line, which will cost 39.46 billion yuan(US$5.77 billion).
A 251km rail link between Nangjing and Hangzhou is also under constru…

The metro operator, Shanghai Shentong Group, is busy adding new trains to increase the Metro’s limited capacity.

Eighteen seven-carriage trains, which can each carry more than 2,100 passengers, are expected to be added to Line 8 by the end of the year.

One of them has already arrived but the Metro authority is still testing it, officials said yesterday. At the moment 24 trains run on the line.

One month into the trial on the second extension of Line 8, nearly 360,000 commuters took the …

According to the Beijing Badaling Special Administrative Region Office, scenic upgrading work of the Great Wall has already started.

The upgrades will include eight major projects, covering the protective development of Chadao ancient town, the reconstruction of public service facilities, and the improvement of traffic.

After the upgrades, Chadao ancient town will become an historic town integrating travel, leisure, artistic creation, and folk arts display together with characteristics of …