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For foreign visitors and the only incoming foreign visitors were from the USSR. Designed to nuture friendships with other communist/socialist countries.
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Part of China's efforts to gain sympathy from Chinese people residing abroad.
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400 incoming foreign visitors during the entire year. Visitors had to be approved by the ministry of foreign affairs or Mao himself
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When China reopened their country for visitors, there were not enough hotels to supply rooms for travelers with only 137 hotels in all of China in 1978, and a total of 1.8 million visitors that year that needed places to stay. There was an stimated 4.2 million visitors the following year.
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Understand the importance of reviving the economy and believe the tourism sector can help.
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Central government, localities, individual government departments, collectives and individuals could invest and operate tourism development projects
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Bureau of Travel and Tourism placed under jurisdiction of the renamed State Council, State General Administration of Travel and Tourism
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SGATT allowed travel agencies to be owned collectively and privately
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Goal was to enable China to enter the ranks of more advanced tourist-receiving countries in terms of service quality and infrastructure development
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Tourism industry placed into the National Plan for Social and Economic Development.
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The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese, were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing in the spring of 1989 that received broad support from city residents and exposed deep splits within China's political leadership but were forcibly and violently suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law in the country's capital. -Wikipedia
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Due to the Tiananmen Square Incident, the projected goal of 5 million visitors during the year of 1991 was not reached and only 3 million visited.
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Deng Xiaoping hopes to open Chinese economy to foreign investment more than ever before. This is the beginning of a market-oriented economy for China.
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Tourism corporations given the right to stipulate their own prices based on domestic and international tourism market demand.
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State Council decided to build 12 state level resorts to combine sightseeing and vacationing
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Chinese granted 3 weeklong holiday and five day work weeks.
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China survives Pacific Asia Financial Crisis unscathed.
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Olympics Begin. Responsible for a lot of progress in infrastructure.