In order to give full play to the active role of tourism industry, the State Council promulgated The Opinions on speeding up Development of the Tourism Industry in December 2009.

The Opinions will relax restriction on access to the tourism market, and encourage the social capital and enterprises with various ownerships to access to it. It also speeds up reconstruction and reform of the State-owned tourism enterprises, supports development of civil and small and medium-sized tourism enterprises, and attracts the foreign tourism enterprises in an active manner.

To speed up the development of the tourism industry we shall adhere to the reform and opening up to the outside world and the principle of people foremost to raise the level of service and management; take domestic tourism as dominant, proactively develop inbound tourism and orderly develop outbound tourism; develop the tourist industry according to circumstances, rationally utilize resources and promote the characteristic and sustained development of the industry.

Please click here to read The Opinions on speeding up Development of the Tourism Industry.