China has over 10,000 star hotels: Report

BEIJING - China had a total of 10,249 star-rated hotels, including 843 five-star hotels, at the end of 2018, according to a report released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

The total revenue of star hotels in China exceeded 209 billion yuan (about $30 billion) last year, said the report, adding that room sales and catering services accounted for 44.67 percent and 40.03 percent of the total revenue, respectively.

Star hotels offered over 1 million job positions in 2018, and nearly 24 percent of the star hotels were State-owned ones, according to the report.

The report also said there were 598 star hotels in south China's Guangdong province last year, leading all the provincial-level regions on the Chinese mainland, followed by 548 in Zhejiang province and 544 in Shandong province.