An Analysis of the Current Investment Situation and Developing Trends in China's Tourism Industry

An interview with Wei Xiaoan,the Director of Planning,Development and Finance Department for the State Tourism AdministrationQuestion: After over twenty years of incessant efforts since Chi- na’s opening up to the outside world,China has been transforming itself.Once merely a resource-rich country, it later became an Asian tourism destination. And now it has been steadily advancing towards be- coming one of the world’s premier tourist destina- tions.China’s tourism industry has been attracting increasingly attention from every corner of the world.