Article: A city in transition: Wuhan is on its way to repositioning itself as the "gateway to central China". (Destination: Pacific & Asia).(China)(Brief Article)

Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei Province, is a city in transition, and its leaders are maneuvering to keep it a city with a relevance to tourism. They'll have no problem keeping it relevant in the world of business, where its stature grows almost daily. A few years ago, the cruise operators who sail on the Yangtze began altering their standard downstream package from Chongqing so that it would stop after three nights at Yichang, a city just below the new dam and about a four-hour drive from Wuhan. Thus Wuhan began to lose its critical position as the eastern terminus of cruising on the upper Yangtze.

Even if lower Yangtze cruises, from Wuhan to Shanghai, gain ...

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