Year-ender: Top 10 tourism news of China in 2015

China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) released its Top 10 Tourism News of China in 2015 on Wednesday.

The tourism industry played a more positive role in driving investment, consumption and export, as well as economic development in 2015. And the top 10 news covered the major events that happened this year and reflected the ongoing reform and upgrading of the tourism industry in China.

1. "Toilet Revolution"

The China National Tourism Administration launched a three-year campaign in January called the "Toilet Revolution", which aims to build 33,000 restrooms across the nation by 2017 and renovate 24,000 facilities.

As an important measure of the "515" strategy for promoting tourism development, the "Toilet Revolution" has become a gigantic tourism infrastructure project, civility project and livelihood project in the urban-rural public service sector.

Li Jinzao, director of CNTA said that "toilets may be small but they reflect the level of civilization in a country".