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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, September 29 (Xinhua) — China saw nearly 3.29 billion domestic tourist trips in the first six months of 2025, setting a new high for the country's tourism sector, Chinese Minister of Culture and Tourism Sun Yeli announced on Monday.
During the reporting period, total domestic tourist spending reached 3.15 trillion yuan (US$443 billion), also breaking the previous record, Sun Yeli added at a press conference.
The minister emphasized that, having withstood the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, China's tourism sector is showing a strong recovery.
Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China Wang Jianhua said that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), the country will strive to provide more high-quality tourism products.
Wang Jianhua noted that during this time, 2,600 new tourist areas classified as Category A have been established in China, bringing the total number of such areas in the country to 16,500. According to the deputy minister, Category A tourist areas now exist in 97 percent of China's county-level administrative units.
Furthermore, the diverse and personalized needs of travelers are being met significantly better. For example, tourist train services adapted for seniors have seen significant growth. From January to August of this year, 1,551 trains of this type operated in China, carrying 930,000 passengers, 80 percent of whom were senior citizens.
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