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Article: NE China province woos increasing number of overseas tourists
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 12, 2004
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NE China province woos increasing number of overseas tourists
SHENYANG, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Northeast China's Liaoning Province,
a traditional industrial base, has attracted more than 1 million
overseas tourists so far this year, a local tourism official has
announced.
Ying Zhongyuan, deputy director of the provincial tourism
administration, said the number of overseas tourists to the province
has increased drastically over the past several years, rising from
600,000 in 2000 to 900,000 in 2002 to the current more than 1
million.
Ying attributed the increase to the launch of the central
government's strategy to ...