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What is the background of modern tourism in China?

The background of modern tourism in China is as follows: \x0d\ 1. Since modern times, China's tourism activities are all local, and there is no industry, which needs to be improved urgently. \x0d\ (1) is closely related to imperialist colonial aggression. Western businessmen, missionaries, scholars and some adventurers came to China, plundered some trading ports and places of interest, and built houses for their business, missionary, sightseeing and rest. \x0d\ (2) The old China government established diplomatic relations with western powers and sent envoys to western countries. Many diplomats visited foreign countries and traveled widely; \x0d\ (3) Many people go abroad to sell their labor force, and some people make a living while sightseeing; \x0d\ (4) In order to learn western scientific and technological knowledge, many teenagers went abroad to study, especially during the Westernization Movement of 19 in the 1970s, there was a "study abroad craze", and they were able to study in Europe and America. \x0d\ 2。 Tourism-related industries have developed to a certain extent and have the conditions to develop tourism. \x0d\ (1) traffic. Railway is the main means of transportation for modern tourism. Since 1876, China has built Ji Jiao Railway, Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway and Middle East Railway. The inland river shipping, ocean shipping, road transportation and civil aviation in modern China provided certain conditions for the development of tourism and tourism. \x0d\ (2) Travel accommodation. Modern hotels began to develop in the late Qing Dynasty. Western-style hotels operated by foreign capital, Chinese and western-style hotels operated by national capital, investment hotels and apartments along the railway, etc. \x0d\ It can be seen that compared with western countries, China's modern tourism started very late. Until the early 1920s, there were only travel agencies operated by foreign companies such as America, Japan, Britain and France in Shanghai, Nanjing and Peiping. Therefore, Chen Guangfu of Shanghai Commercial Savings Bank set up the Tourism Department in the bank, with the account number of 1923. 1June, 927, the Ministry of Tourism became independent and renamed China Travel Agency, which was the first travel agency in China. Thanks to the efforts of the founder Chen Guangfu and others, the agency developed rapidly, dominating China tourism for 30 years and promoting the development of modern tourism in China.