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Photo: Contestants compete in a campus beauty queen competition hosted by Hunan radio and a TV station in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, on Wednesday. The contest is the first of its kind in China.

Hot word: An increasing number of tourists are taking "backpack tours", bringing more diversity to the tourism, hospitality and retailing markets, while the old-fashioned 12-day, five-country package accounts for less of the market than before.