'Revolutionary' approach to tourism

XI'AN: Once home to the Red Army and headquarters of the Communist Party of China, Yan'an is today building its future on "red" tourism.

By the end of the year, about 6 million tourists from home and abroad will have visited the city, taking tourism revenue to about 3 billion yuan ($435 million), Wu Yanjun, a senior official with the local tourism bureau, said yesterday.

Yan'an is working hard to develop its red tourism industry and hopes to be among the best in the country by 2010, he said.