As China initiated the policy of opening & reform, China's tourism industry witnessed tremendous achievements. Tourism becomes a new opportunities for China’s economic growth. The booming tourism industry has made China the biggest domestic tourist market in the world, and the largest source of tourists in Asia. At the same time, it brings customers to other relative industry and makes more jobs for china’s big population. Although it develops quickly, there is still big room to improve in Chinese tourism industry. It’s only a beginning for china’s tourism development. If the government, companies and some other relative apartments can make more efforts to make business environment healthy and sound, China’s tourism will bring more economic benefits to China.     
 
Nowadays??/span>few other countries have been able to match the pace of China's sustained economic growth. China has become a major player in the global economy. Gross domestic product (GDP) in china increase more than 8 percent on average annually since 1978. Continuing economic reforms since 1978 have substantially altered its economic structure, expanding the service sector, including the tourism industry.Tourism is known as never wane sunrise industry internationally. From the beginning of the nation founding to reform and opening up, China’s tourism had small scale and unitary structure. So it had not become a real industry. In 1978, China only received 1.809 million inbound travelers, got 2.63 billion dollars revenue, ranking 41st in the world. The reforms have resulted in immense economic growth and a boom in tourism development.  With the power of reform and opening up since 1978, china’s tourism step into a new improvement period. Reform brings immense economical benefits and makes the tourism developing rapidly. As a new service industry, tourism show enormous spirit. In only twenty year’s time, China’s tourism goes through a course from nonexistence to pass into existence and from small to large. It becomes one of the fastest developed industries in national economy. Meanwhile, it is an industry that has international competition power. In 2006, the number of tourists coming to China was 124 million, got revenue 33.5 billion dollars, which was respectively 68 times and 13 times of 1978’s, ranking fourth and sixth in the world. With rapid growth in inbound travel, outbound travel and domestic travel, China’s tourism industry keeps expanding. China has become the fifth largest tourism country in the world, with immense prospects.
   Unlike industrial industries that develop along with social and economic development to maturity and recess, tourism is always a sunrise industry.As long as people’s curiosity and pursuit of good things don’t disappear, tourism will never stop developing. The rapid growth of the national economy makes the domestic tourism industry developing rapidly. As the improvement of the life standard in China, more Chinese prefer to enjoy traveling. The essential elements for tourism are enough money, leisure time and personal motivation. Most people have desire to travel, but the other two points sometimes can’t be satisfied. With the economy develops in China, people’s income have increased more and more. On the other hand, central government makes more public holidays in order to draw domestic demands. More people tend to go to a different place and have different experiences when they have leisure time. Meanwhile, more people can afford traveling domestically and overseas. China's domestic tourism market has become the world's largest measured by tourist numbers, a senior Chinese tourist official said. The tourism industry has become an important driving force in the economy in 24 out of 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Now China’s domestic tourism market remains flourishing growth, especially during May Day and National day, two golden seven-day holidays. Tourism is increasingly becoming a vacation of the people of a leisure fashion, and holiday travel has become China's new urban growth points of consumption.
The market was so hot that the number of tourists during the two periods hit respectively 46 million and 59.8 million in 2000, generating 18.12 billion yuan and 23  billion yuan of revenue. Following is the major statistics of domestic tourists

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