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Comprehensive News Sun Gang, deputy director of the National Tourism Administration, revealed at the press conference of Boao Tourism Forum held recently that although the world tourism revenue dropped by 2.6% last year due to the "9. 1 1" incident, China's tourism revenue still kept growing, with an increase rate of 9.7%. Last year, China's foreign exchange income from tourism totaled 178 billion US dollars, surpassing Germany, Britain and Japan, ranking fifth in the world for the first time, second only to Spain, France, Italy and the United States. Last year, the number of people entering China was 89 million, and the number of people staying overnight was 33.2 million, ranking fifth in the world.

It is understood that at the same time, China's outbound travel has also developed rapidly. Last year, more than120,000 people left the country for business and personal reasons, second only to Japan in Asia. In addition, China's domestic tourism market has also increased significantly. Last year, the number of domestic tourists reached 784 million, and tourism has become a new growth point of China's economy.

According to the forecast of the World Tourism Organization, by 20 10, China will become the largest tourist receiving country and the fourth largest tourist source exporting country in the world. Therefore, in 2000, China put forward the goal of building China into a world-class tourism power in 20 10. Sun Gang said that he is confident that China can achieve this goal. He said that during the period from 65438 to 0998, China's tourism income was only 43%, 42% and 4 1% of that of Spanish, French and Italian tourist powers. But last year, the proportion has risen to 54%, 60% and 68.7%, and the gap between China and the world's tourism powers is narrowing. (Xinhua Daily)