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According to an agreement on promoting Guangxi’s sea resort sealed earlier this week between the bureau and a tourist agency from Russia, more than 10,000 Russian tourists are estimated to tour Guangxi in 2007, ten times the number in 2006.
Last year, the Russian agency made successful promotion in Guangxi’s neighboring Hainan Province, which attracted 100,000 Russian tourists to the southern island.
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The two weeks of cross-strait charter flights between Chinese mainland and Taiwan for the Lunar New Year holiday were concluded on Monday amid urges for an earlier realization of regular direct flights.
A total of 96 round-trip direct charter flights to connect mainland cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Xiamen with Taipei and Kaohsiung of Taiwan were made, carrying Chinese longing for family reunions across the Straits for the Lunar New Year which began on Feb. 18.
The total number of charter flights passengers is now not available.
According to airports in Guangzhou and Xiamen, about 10,000 Taiwan compatriots traveled across the Straits by the flights in the last two weeks.
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Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, one of the largest in China, is expected to handle 40 million passengers by 2010, more than four times its current capability.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has approved the airport’s expansion plan which includes the construction of a second runway, 3,300 meters long, and a 250,000-square-meter terminal.
At a cost of 15.3 billion yuan (about 2 billion U.S. dollars), the project is expected to help build Shanghai into an aviation hub for the Asia and Pacific region and ensure a successful Shanghai Expo in 2010, the NDRC said.
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China's highways carried 227 million passengers during the past Spring Festival holiday week, when millions of Chinese moved for family gatherings and tourist trips.
The number of travelers rose 11.6 percent from the same period of last year, with the passenger flow exceeding 50 million per day on Friday and Saturday, when most Chinese started to return from travels, said the Ministry of Communications.
This year’s Spring Festival holiday week runs from Feb. 18, China’s Lunar New Year, to Feb. 25.
The peak continued on Sunday, when 62.8 million passengers were estimated to move by highway, 23 percent up year on year, according to the ministry.
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Sea routes between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan have transported a record number of passengers during the Spring Festival holidays, according to local entry-exit inspection and quarantine authorities.
The three sea routes of Xiamen-Jinmen, Mawei-Mazu and Quanzhou-Jinmen have transported a total number of 23,439 passengers during the week-long holiday.
The Quanzhou-Jinmen route, which was opened in June last year, saw about 1,456 passengers, including 1,262 Taiwan passengers and 194 from the mainland, according to statistics from the Quanzhou Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.
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