Year-ender: Top 10 tourism news of China in 2015
(China Daily) Updated: 2015-12-23 21:21China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) released its Top 10 Tourism News of China in 2015 on Wednesday.
The tourism industry played a more positive role in driving investment, consumption and export, as well as economic development in 2015. And the top 10 news covered the major events that happened this year and reflected the ongoing reform and upgrading of the tourism industry in China.
1. "Toilet Revolution"
The China National Tourism Administration launched a three-year campaign in January called the "Toilet Revolution", which aims to build 33,000 restrooms across the nation by 2017 and renovate 24,000 facilities.
As an important measure of the "515" strategy for promoting tourism development, the "Toilet Revolution" has become a gigantic tourism infrastructure project, civility project and livelihood project in the urban-rural public service sector.
Li Jinzao, director of CNTA said that "toilets may be small but they reflect the level of civilization in a country".
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- Tourism conference theme song seeks English version
- World's largest tourism sub begins trial run in Hainan
- Qingyang and Xi'an sign joint tourism agreement
- 'Maternity tourism' in US sees change
- China, Estonia vow more infrastructure, tourism cooperation
- Xi stresses correct implementation of 'One country, Two systems' in HK
- Bid to change family planning law stirs debate
- Bottled air breeds hot air in smoggy China
- Blacklist to record bad behavior by tourists
- Lawyer or not, Pu Zhiqiang broke the law
- First survivor found as 74 remain missing
- Urban development to be core of nation's next reform stage
- After Beijing, Tianjin and four Hebei cities issue red alert
- China, US target 5 most-wanted fugitives
- Nation donates 5,800 tents to Somali refugees in Kenya
