Chinese travel more

Thu, 25 Jan 1996

Chinese travel more

BEIJING (dpa): Overseas travel, once an unattainable dream for the majority of Chinese living under communist rule, has become a reality for a fraction of society, the official media reported yesterday.

Hong Kong, Macao, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia were reported as the most popular destinations for more than one million Chinese tourists in 1995, the Xinhua News Agency said.

Tourism figures do not include more than 3 million Chinese who were estimated to have traveled abroad last year "for private or business purposes," according to the Ministry of Public Security.

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