China’s travel market continues to grow — up 11% last year. China-based internet research firm iResearch reports that while only 10% of 2009 trips were booked online, that should double by 2011. But China still lags behind other markets, judging from discussions at the recent China Travel Distribution Summit in Beijing. Ram Badrinathan of PhoCusWright […]
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China’s development of high speed (HS) rail may have been late but over the past five years, it has accomplished what other countries have taken decades to achieve. China’s first HS rail, the 120-km inter-city line between Beijing and Tianjin, went into operation on August 1, 2008. According to the Ministry of Railways, by the […]
American Airlines wants a third non-stop China route between Los Angeles and Shanghai. If approval comes through, a non-stop daily service on a Boeing 777 seating 247 passengers would begin April 5 next year. Los Angeles-Shanghai is the largest air travel market between the US and China, but currently it is served only by China […]
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Dryers not hot items in China
Chinese consumers like big-screen televisions, automobiles, washing machines, double-door refrigerators with automatic icemakers — but not clothes dryers. According to a spokesman for the appliance store Best Buy, the Chinese market for dryers "is by no means fully developed." Other businesses report similar experiences. Zhou Lei, who works in sales for a top securities company […]
China is building its first high-speed railway training school in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province. The training base, which covers a total area of 210,000 square meters, will be completed within a year. China invested RMB3 billion (US$450 million) in the facility. Initially the base will handle the training of 13,000 people a year but […]