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As travel resumes, China’s luxury shoppers ask: Paris or Hainan?

January 5, 2023189 Views

An end to China's travel curbs this month is expected to revive demand in the global luxury retail market, which has been starved of mainland visitors for three years, but many consumers now see more reasons to do their high-end shopping locally. Share prices of global luxury brands jumped last week after Beijing announced it would loosen travel restrictions from Jan. 8, effectively allowing Chinese tourists to once again flock to global shopping hubs from Paris to Tokyo. However, analysts and luxury brands warn they are unlikely see an immediate return to pre-pandemic levels of Chinese travellers with airlines yet to fully resume operations and local prices falling. Just as importantly, big luxury brands are now investing more in the shopping experience in China. FILE PHOTO: A C...

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Asia’s tourist hotspots prepare for boom as China relaxes COVID rules

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December 29, 20221056 Views

Asian countries are bracing for an influx of Chinese tourists as COVID restrictions are dismantled, and while some are wary, operators in others are preparing packages such as hotpot buffets to cash in on the expected spike in travel. Chinese tourists will no longer need to quarantine on return home starting Jan. 8, the government announced this week, a move that spurred a surge in bookings from what was the world’s largest outbound travel market in 2019. The once $255 billion a year in global spending by Chinese tourists ground to a virtual halt during the pandemic, leaving a gaping hole in the Asian market, where countries from Thailand to Japan had depended on China as the largest source of foreign visitors. FILE PHOTO: Passengers prepare to board a flight at the airport in no...

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China to resume issuing passports, visas for tourism

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December 28, 20221162 Views

Hong Kong scraps vaccine pass, COVID-19 tests for travelers China says it will resume issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from anti-virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years, setting up a potential flood of Chinese going abroad for next month’s Lunar New Year holiday. The announcement Tuesday adds to abrupt changes that are rolling back some of the world’s strictest anti-virus controls as President Xi Jinping’s government tries to reverse an economic slump. Rules that confined millions of people to their homes kept China’s infection rate low but fueled public frustration and crushed economic growth. An officer collects passports from residents for renewal and re-applications at a community police station in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 202...

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Uneven wetting affecting Tibetan Plateau

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December 27, 2022893 Views

Climate change is causing diverse variations in the thawing of frozen ground The Tibetan Plateau has experienced prominent warming and wetting since the mid-1990s that has altered the thermal and hydrological properties of its frozen ground. In a new study, published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, scientists used the Community Land Surface Model to uncover that the dual effect of this wetting and the projected increase in precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau in the future is becoming a critical factor in determining the thermodynamics of the frozen ground. The lead author of the study, Dr Xuewei Fang from the School of Atmospheric Sciences at Chengdu University of Information Technology in China, explains that “In the face of the greatest increase in the occurrence frequ...

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Ancient skull uncovered in China could be million-year-old Homo erectus

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December 2, 2022355 Views

Fieldwork is under way to excavate a rare, well-preserved specimen in central China Researchers are heralding the discovery of an ancient human skull in central China as an important find. As excavation of the remarkably intact fossil continues, archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists anticipate that the skull could give a fuller picture of the diverse family tree of archaic humans living throughout Eurasia in prehistoric times. The skull was discovered on 18 May at an excavation site 20 kilometres west of Yunyang — formerly known as Yunxian — in central China’s Hubei province. It lies 35 metres from where two skulls — dubbed the Yunxian Man skulls — were unearthed in 1989 and 19901, and probably belongs to the same species of ancient people, say researchers. “It’s a wonderful d...

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World’s largest solar telescope array is now complete

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November 15, 2022874 Views

China’s Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope is among a suite of instruments the country has built in the past three years to study the Sun On the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, engineers just finished mounting the final pieces of hardware onto the world’s largest telescope array for studying the Sun. Construction of the Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope (DSRT), which consists of more than 300 dish-shaped antennas forming a circle more than 3 kilometres in circumference, was completed on 13 November. Trial operations will begin in June. The 100 million yuan (US$14 million) observatory will help researchers to study solar eruptions and how they affect conditions around Earth. A huge ring of radio antennas in China will help researchers to study eruptions in the Sun’s outer atmosphere. Cred...

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Different blossoming schedules have kept these flowers from driving each other extinct

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October 26, 2022822 Views

A big part of evolution is competition-- when there are limited resources to go around, plants and animals have to duke it out for nutrients, mates, and places to live. That means that the flower-covered meadows of China’s Hengduan mountains were an evolutionary mystery-- there are dozens of species of closely-related rhododendrons that all live in harmony. To figure out why, scientists spent a summer carefully documenting the flowering patterns of 34 Rhododendron species, and they discovered the reason why the plants were able to coexist: they burst into bloom at different points in the season so they don’t have to compete for pollinators. “There’s this basic idea in ecology of the niche, that a species’ lifestyle, like what it eats and how it fits into the environment, cannot be repl...

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Huge ancient stone murals discovered in central China

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October 2, 2022305 Views

Two stone murals from the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) have been unearthed in central China's Henan Province, which are the largest of their kind ever found in the country, archaeologists have said. The murals, discovered in the Zhouqiao relics site in Kaifeng City, are symmetrically distributed along the northern and southern banks at the east side of the Zhouqiao Bridge. Auspicious patterns of traditional Chinese culture on a stone mural discovered in the Zhouqiao relics site in Kaifeng City, central China's Henan Province.(Xinhua/Li An) The murals are 3.3 meters in height, and it has been revealed that the excavated length of the south bank mural is 23.2 meters, while that of the northern one is 21.2 meters. The stone murals are engraved with auspicious patterns of trad...

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China plans easier border entry rules for some foreign tourists

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September 19, 2022896 Views

China's government on Monday issued draft rules aimed at making it easier for some foreigners to enter China for visits to tourism sites along the Chinese border. Travel groups organised by tour agencies in border areas in China can choose their port of entry and exit "flexibly", the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said in a statement, without giving specifics on locations and dates. FILE PHOTO: Women wearing masks are reflected at a bus-stop, Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) China has shut its borders to foreign tourists since the outbreak of the new coronavirus in 2020, with only specific groups of foreign nationals allowed to enter the country, such as those holding certain work visas. In recent months, rules have gradually been relaxed, from resum...

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Panda twins born in China as species struggles for survival

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August 24, 2022923 Views

Twin giant pandas have been born at a breeding center in southwestern China, a sign of progress for the country’s unofficial national mascot as it struggles for survival amid climate change and loss of habitat. The male and female cubs, born Tuesday at the Qinling Panda Research Center in Shaanxi province, are the second pair of twins born to their mother, Qin Qin. Another panda, Yong Yong, gave birth to twins at the center earlier this month. This photo released by Qinling Giant Panda Research Center, shows newly born twin Panda cubs, male at left and female at right, at the center in Xi'an, in northwestern China's Shaanxi Province on Tuesday, Aug 23, 2022. The male cub weighed 176.4 grams while the female cub weighed 151.2 grams when they were born at the on Tuesday morning, accor...