For mature tourist sites, the revenue from ticket sales represents only a small portion of the profits they can generate.
What are the governing ideas of China's new leadership? In which direction is China heading? Will China continue its reform and opening-up policy? What is the basis of China's foreign policy? Such questions often arise.
Lord Palmerston,a British foreign secretary and two-time prime minister under Queen Victoria, once said of Britain, "We have no permanent allies, we have no permanent enemies, we only have permanent interests."
ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT AFFECT THE PARTY'S creativity, cohesion and strength must be addressed, all the ailments that are detrimental to the Party's purity and quality as the vanguard must be cured, and all the malignant tumors within the Party must be removed. These remarks by Party leader Xi Jinping, in a speech on National Day, may be taken as evidence of the leadership's continued resolve to root out corruption.
The success of the anti-graft campaign should not be judged by how many corrupt officials get their deserved punishment, but by whether we can introduce a new logic that anybody abusing power for profit has to pay for that. Prevention is more important than punishment.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will use his attendance at the Asia-Europe summit in Milan on Oct 16 and 17 as an opportunity to visit Germany and Italy.
Since the handover in 1997, the central government has hewed to the line of "one country, two systems" and honored every term and condition as outlined in the Basic Law.
On the Korean Peninsula, the big news was the surprise one-day visit to the Republic of Korea on Saturday by three top officials from the Democratic People's Republic of Korean - Hwang Pyong-so, Choe Ryong-hae and Kim Yang-gon - to attend the closing ceremony of the Incheon Asian Games.
One day in a library in the United Kingdom, I found it hard to find a book to read, and then I discovered Mo Yan.
Under China's national lottery regulations, all lottery winners are entitled to keep private their personal information and how they spend their winnings.
A 40-year-old Hong Kong engineer, who has been given the name "Worrying Uncle", became well-known on the Internet because of a video clip, in which he appealed to all pro-"Occupy Central" youngsters to remain sane and go home.
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