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Shanghai has set a growth target of 70 percent in tourism revenues over the next five years to 2015, local authorities said on Feb 17.
A chef makes yuanxiao, or rice glue balls, at Laoshuku Yuanxiao Shop in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, Tuesday Feb 15, 2011. Yuanxiao is a traditional food for the Lantern Festival on the fift eenth day of the first lunar month, which falls on Thursday this year.
Seven people were found hiding in the luggage compartment of a passenger bus on the Yongjin Expressway in Jinhua city, East China’s Zhejiang province
Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has requested its public security organs above county level to launch official micro blogs, in an attempt to strengthen communication with the public, chinanews.com reported Wednesday.
Fishermen in Yantai, East China’s Shandong province hold a sacrificial sea ceremony which is a local traditional custom to pray for a good harvest in the coming year, Feb 15, 2011.
Residents take part in a contest to make tangyuan, or sticky rice balls in soup, in a community in the Xiling district of Yichang city, Central China’s Hubei province, on Tuesday.
People attend a dragon dance competition in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, Feb 15, 2011, to celebrate the upcoming Lantern Festival which falls on Feb 17, 2011.
A folk artist shapes a clay sculpture featuring a rabbit couple kissing and sitting on the moon on Valentine's Day in Shenyang, Liaoning province February 14, 2011.
104-year-old Huang Desheng (L) and his 99-year-old wife Cheng Yinzhi receive a heart-shaped rose bouquet on Feb 14, Valentine's Day in Leping city, East China’s Jiangxi province.
A shortage of manpower struck Yiwu at the end of the Spring Festival holiday and delayed a lot of enterprises from starting up. Yiwu is famous for its small commodity trade.
Five people were killed and two injured in a road accident Saturday in east China's Zhejiang Province, local authorities said.
China reported 32 food poisoning cases between October and December, down 30.4 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Health.