Until three years ago, only a few businesspeople involved in the dairy industry or the production of ceramic products had ever heard of Faku.
Cai Yansheng will never forget March 13. It was the day his wife was trampled to death by rampaging wild elephants searching for food.
The number of elephants without tusks is rising because of the ivory trade, according to wildlife experts, although a lack of samples means there are no exact figures. Unlike African elephants, only about 50 percent of male Asian elephants have tusks, while the same percentage of females have short tusks called tushes, which don't contain pulp.
When China was first connected to the Internet in 1994, Liu Xianran was 2.
The 10-day trip to California's Silicon Valley was a mind-blowing experience for Liu Xianran, the 22-year-old founder of an Internet company in Beijing.
Delegates from APEC member economies shared their tourism success stories at the 2014 APEC Tourism Working Group meeting. Under a five-year tourism plan, from 2015 to 2019, Indonesia is using an "eco-tourism" concept, which highlights sustainability strategies. The country mapped out several tourism areas across the nation as priority destinations under the plan.
The results of an independent assessment presented to delegates of the APEC Tourism Working Group "reflect where we are now and where we can move forward", said Javier Esteban Guillermo Molina, leader of the TWG.
To leverage resources and promote cooperation, delegates to the 45th APEC Tourism Working Group Meeting called for promoting integration by adopting the 2012-15 APEC Strategic Plan made in 2012.
Progress towards tax reforms, which ease burdens on tourism, travel services companies and consumers, was made in discussions among delegates of the 45th APEC Tourism Working Group Meeting in Macao.
Several cities in China have launched "smart tourism" projects, which feature integrated tourism resources and stronger interactivity between tourists and their destinations via the Internet.
Wang Mingsheng feels like he is suffocating all the time. He kneels several times a day, giddy and gasping for air.
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