The resumption of overland routes from Yunnan is expected to benefit overland travelers from Kunming to Laos and Thailand via the Kunming-Bangkok Expressway.
Recently, the city of Shanghai is making preparations to welcome the arrival of Santa by lighting Christmas trees, holding special events and opening Christmas markets.
China's largest and most intact buildings in the Chinese Baroque architectural style in Harbin have been renovated and will open to tourists at the beginning of 2014.
By the year 2020, which will mark the 600th birthday of the Palace Museum, the western part of the Palace Museum, which was resided mainly by the royal females, will be open to the public.
China's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City is to renovate the unfinished Hall of Water into a hall for foreign cultural relics. It will be the first of its kind in China.
A World Bank loan will be used for infrastructure construction, cultural heritage protection and industry development in 68 ancient villages in Anhui province.
The Zhusuan, otherwise known as the Chinese abacus was officially listed as an intangible cultural heritage at the 8th Annual UNESCO World Heritage Congress.
