The thriving inbound tourism in China has directly manifested the country's great efforts to advance high-level opening up, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning at a regular press briefing in Beijing on Friday.
The 3rd Yunnan International Communication Forum was held earlier this month in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. During the forum, a report on annual buzz words was released, with the hot word "ChinaTravel" listed in the top 10.
China expects a growing number of foreign tourists to visit China and learn about the Asian country, said Mao.
"The flourishing of travel in China is a direct reflection of the country's promotion of high-level opening up. In the first three quarters of this year, the number of inbound tourists traveling in China was about 95 million trips, an increase of nearly 80 percent year on year. As China will open itself wider to the outside world and the visa-free policy will be launched by China for an increasingly larger number of countries, I believe that the popularity of 'ChinaTravel' will be even higher. 'It is always a pleasure to greet a friend from afar'. Warmth and friendliness are the Chinese way of hospitality, and openness and inclusiveness are the ways China interacts with the outside world. We welcome more foreign friends to come to China, visit China, experience China, and learn about China," said the spokeswoman.
Booming inbound tourism shows China's increasing high-standard opening up: spokeswoman
