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Airbnb is booming in China. And the company's fastest-growing market is, in turn, helping it flourish, with over half of its Chinese arrivals registered in the past year alone, Xu Lin reports.

Li Huan regularly uses the home-sharing platform Airbnb because it offers unique experiences at relatively lower costs - and she can cook.

"Most hosts communicate with guests," the 30-year-old photographer who lives in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region's capital, Nanning, says.