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22 Chinese tourist attractions to be added to 5A category
December 26, 2019
BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- A total of 22 tourist attractions, including Beijing's Old Summer Palace, are expected to be added to the 5A category, the highest level in the rating system, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) on Wednesday.
The selected tourist attractions were recommended by local tourism administrations and evaluated in accordance with standards and regulations by the MCT.
Apart from the Old Summer Palace, or "Yuanmingyuan" in Chinese, tourist attractions in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, east China's Jiangsu and Jiangxi provinces were also included in the list.
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Visitors view the bronze horse head (R) looted from the royal garden by Anglo-French allied forces during the Second Opium War in 1860 during an exhibition in Beijing, Nov. 13, 2019. It is the first repatriated animal head that will be housed at its original location, the Old Summer Palace. (Xinhua/Li He)[/caption]
China has a tourism-rating classification system which rates a tourist attraction from one A to 5A for its overall tourism quality.China now has over 10,300 tourist attractions rated above A level, receiving more than 6 billion visitors a year. ■
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