This Day, That Year

Item from Aug 31, 1984, in China Daily: Visitors view Buddhist statues in the renowned Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, Henan province ... one of China's many spectacular tourist attractions ...

It is time for the National Tourism Administration to formulate policies and overall plans for tourism development, State councilor Gu Mu told the National Tourism Conference in Beijing yesterday ...

Gu stressed that "the smooth advance of tourism must rely not only on the efforts of the tourism agencies but also on the cooperation and support of other departments and enterprises in charge of the airline, railway, landscaping, municipal construction, trade and commerce sectors".