Cooperation increases visitors to China, US

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China and the United States have become each other's fourth-largest tourist destinations, with about 4.05 million tourists traveling between the two countries last year, according to China's top tourism official.

Shao Qiwei, director of the China National Tourism Administration, said on Tuesday that 1.97 million Chinese travelers visited the US last year, an annual increase of 14.2 percent.