男女羞羞视频在线观看,国产精品黄色免费,麻豆91在线视频,美女被羞羞免费软件下载,国产的一级片,亚洲熟色妇,天天操夜夜摸,一区二区三区在线电影

Top Biz News

'Golden Week' boosts holiday economy

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-05-05 15:22
Large Medium Small

In a nation that for thousands of years held diligence and hard work in the highest esteem, the Chinese have learned to relax, travel and loosen their wallets since their country began its thrice annual holidays seven years ago, known as Golden Weeks.

When the first golden week holiday was initiated on a trial basis, to celebrate National Day in Oct. 1999, China was astonished to see Chinese tourists take 28 million person trips while spending 14.1 billion yuan (about 1.62 billion US dollars).

Tourists in China, nevertheless, have seemingly never looked back since that first full week off.

The office that coordinates national tourism predicts this week's golden week, to mark May Day or International Labour Day, is expected to witness a record high 120 million person-trips taken by Chinese tourists. If past trends hold true they will likely spend more than 40 billion yuan (approximately 5 billion US dollars.

According to cumulative statistics following 1999 Chinese took 1.3 billion trips and spent more than 560.6 billion yuan (some 70.1 billion US dollars) during the past golden weeks.

The World Tourism Organization estimates that every tourist dollar will generate 4.3 times that amount in economic spin-off. This would mean the country's golden weeks have been worth over two trillion yuan to the Chinese economy.

Yang Shengming, a noted researcher with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says that the golden week holidays have meant big changes to China's economic development. The tourism industry has grown by responding to the demands of consumers, Yang acknowledged.

Up until the mid 1990's workers in China used to put in six-day work weeks and only had a long weekend or two off during the year. Now if all weekends and holidays are counted workers can enjoy up to 114 days off or about a third of the year is spent in leisure time.

A sample survey made by Prof. Wang Qiyan, director of the leisure economy research institute of the prestigious Renmin (People's) University in Beijing, found that the average daily leisure time for Chinese urbanites is six hours and six minutes.

The increase of leisure time has spurred a boom to the leisure industry. In such major cities as Beijing, Shanghai municipality in east China and Gangzhou, capital city of South China's Guangdong Province, recreation has become an engine for urban economy development.

Having an entire week off also means that Chinese tourists have enough time to head out of the country. Last year, the number of outbound mainland tourists reached up to 31 million, making China the largest exporter of tourists in Asia.

主站蜘蛛池模板: 长垣县| 万荣县| 广平县| 陈巴尔虎旗| 孝昌县| 德江县| 涟水县| 沽源县| 张家口市| 千阳县| 绥德县| 资中县| 巴里| 扶沟县| 海宁市| 黄龙县| 神池县| 巴林左旗| 安宁市| 闸北区| 益阳市| 子长县| 伊吾县| 永嘉县| 中牟县| 阜新市| 文昌市| 阿巴嘎旗| 南充市| 原平市| 泉州市| 桂阳县| 建阳市| 南澳县| 甘南县| 潮安县| 金昌市| 吐鲁番市| 潼关县| 南岸区| 建始县| 广州市| 建平县| 大理市| 巴青县| 灵山县| 明光市| 葵青区| 汕尾市| 霸州市| 景洪市| 区。| 郓城县| 新闻| 义马市| 龙门县| 大姚县| 囊谦县| 泾川县| 兰溪市| 庆安县| 济宁市| 邯郸县| 江达县| 定安县| 玉田县| 永川市| 福清市| 石嘴山市| 奉新县| 天等县| 望都县| 东台市| 临高县| 铜川市| 奈曼旗| 云霄县| 明溪县| 宁安市| 苏州市| 错那县| 定西市|