In the past week of the Chinese Spring Festival, Chengdu hosted 157.55 million tourists.During the period, the city accomplished a revenue of RMB14.03 billion from the travel sector, up 27.4% year on year. According to a sampling survey, tourists traveling in the city spent 24.2%, 21.1% and 19.3% of...

On February 13 (local time), the Chengdu Tianfu Culture Art Troupe celebrated the traditional Chinese Spring Festival at a peace-keeping camp in south Lebanon.The event, co-organized by the Ministry of Culture of the PRC and the Chinese Embassy in Lebanon, attracted peace-keeping troops from differe...

British Airways, the UK’s national carrier, has launched new direct flights from London Heathrow to Chengdu in southwest China.The British airline said that it would provide the 777-200ER service three-times-weekly flight from September 22. British Airways will be the only UK carrier to offer a dire...

The opening ceremony for Sichuan Province’s tourism promotion campaign themed “Beautiful China, More Than Pandas” took place December 15 in Chengdu’s Qingbaijiang District.Organized by the Sichuan Provincial Tourism Development Committee, the event, aimed to further integrate into the development of...

The Books and Periodicals Distribution Association of China convened a conference on China’s bookstores in Beijing January 11.The event made a review on the development of the brick-and-mortar bookstores in the country, and titled Chengdu as the City of Bookstores in China in 2017.According to a rep...

Up to now, the city has put four lines into use.Chengdu is the first city of central and western China to construct and operate underground rail lines. Up to now, the city has put four lines, Chengdu Metro Line 1, 2, 3 and 4, into use. The city has planned to start at least two Metro lines every yea...

Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper under the People's Daily, held a release ceremony titled “The 7th Global Times Review: the Most Influential Chinese Cities in the World” in Beijing.Chengdu, a metropolis in western China, was titled as China's most attractive destination fo...

In early January, an American online news platform, announced eight coolest cities to visit in the world in 2018, and Chengdu was among the list.The other 7 include 4 from Europe, 2 from the US and 1 from Asia. Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, is the only city from the cou...