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Best tourist city

By Xin Dingding (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-02-09 10:50

The children show the tea art in Qintai Road, Chengdu City, Southwest China's Sichuan Province. [Xinhua]

China will become the world's top tourist destination by 2020, Francesco Frangialli, secretary general of the World Tourism Organization, said at the awards ceremony.

China overtook Italy to be the world's fourth most popular destination last year, Frangialli said.

From 1978 to 2005, the number of inbound tourists and revenues increased 66-fold and 111-fold.

(China Daily 02/09/2007 page1)