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On Sunday, July 5th at around 9:30pm Beijing time, a riot began which has crippled Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang province.

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Other regions and provinces in China have not been affected and tourism activities are continuing as norma…

The only tunnel linking Shanghai World Expo sites on both sides of the Huangpu River will open to traffic this month.
Two of the four planned lanes of the Xizhang South Road Tunnel will open first, according to Labor Daily report today. The tunnel is still being constructed but when it goes into service eight bus routes will use it after the Dapu Road Tunnel, which opened in 1970 on the upstream of the river, is closed for major repair works.
The Xizhang South Road Tunnel will be the first tun…

As one of Hunans key tourism activities, Changde Lotus Festival was held yesterday (July 5), and it will last for two months. Since ancient days, lotus has always been enjoying a high status among the rich Chinese culture. Therefore, besides appreciating the beautiful lotus, the main theme of this festival includes another theme: to bring a spiritual tour to the visitors, making them learn more about traditional Chinese culture, especially lotus culture, through a series of activities and perfor…

The new Chimelong Hotel in Guangzhou, China’s largest eco-theme hotel, has celebrated its grand official opening following a six-month soft opening.

Located close to Chimelong Paradise, Chimelong Water Park, Chimelong Xiangjiang Safari Park, and Chimelong International Circus, the 360,000-square-meter hotel has 1,500 guest rooms. Guests staying there can enjoy one-stop services for hotel accommodation, circus performances, and international cuisine.

The hotel’s brand new convention center …

TO cope with the demand for facilities during the 2010 World Expo, 49 sets of mobile toilets are to be made available, the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau said yesterday.

The mobile toilets will provide 360 cubicles for the public. They are high-tech facilities using solar energy for lighting and advanced ecological processing technologies, officials said.

The toilets have operated well on trials at recent big events like the Formula One Grand Prix in April, said Liu Weiguan…

The Shanghai World Expo organizers say they have built most of the mobile phone stations needed to support handset TV services featuring 2010 World Expo content in the city.

The Expo organizers have decided to set up handset TV channels to broadcast the event when it starts in May.

At the weekend the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, sent 1,000 hand-held televisions to the Expo organizers to support its pioneering move using the new technology.

The Expo organizers plan…

Shanghai might organize local residents to provide homestays during the 2010 World Expo, a tourism official said Tuesday.

New regulations allow tourism bureaus to work with township, government and urban communities to offer homestays during important holidays, sports events and exhibitions, said Dao Shuming, head of the Shanghai Tourism Bureau.

Shanghai had 6.4 million overseas visitors last year, and the tourism industry was valued at 206 billion yuan (about 30 billion U.S. dollars).
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Shanghai is planning to open areas of suburban woodland to the public next year, officials said yesterday. The greenery authorities will install facilities in forests and arrange a management team to supervise them.

The woodland includes ecological forest, protected forest and orchards. Jinshan and Songjiang districts have the richest forest resources, said the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau.

The bureau will issue more details, such as how much entrance to the forests wi…

VISITORS to the Shanghai World Expo may be able to take part in Shanghai’s traditional longtang games, including hoop-rolling, shuttlecock kicking - in which players use their feet to keep a shuttlecock in the air - marbles and rubber-band skipping, which were popular in the city decades ago.

The folk games can help Expo visitors understand Shanghai, Zhu Yonglei, deputy director general of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, told a public forum yesterday.

The third Expo distric…