Biz Scene: LOCAL

Sichuan tourism

Southwest China's Sichuan Province has earned 105.3 billion yuan from its tourism industry in the first 10 months of this year, ranking among the regions with fastest annual income growth in tourism.

The provincial tourism bureau expects the whole year's total revenue from tourism to exceed 115 billion yuan.

The province also plans to invest a total of 37.1 billion yuan to develop five tourism sites.

(China Daily 11/15/2007 page15)