China sees over 30.5 mln trips by foreign travelers in 2018

Foreign tourists pose for a photo with mascot during a Silk Road international tourism expo in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, March 30, 2018. Foreign travelers made 30.54 million trips to China in 2018, a 4.7 percent increase than that of 2017, according to China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Travelers stayed at least one night in China on 23.64 million of the trips, a growth of 5.2 percent than the figure of 2017, said a post on the ministry's website Tuesday. It said foreign travelers spent 73.1 billion U.S. dollars on their trips in China last year, 5.1 percent more than the amount in 2017. The Republic of Korea, Japan, the United States, Malaysia and Singapore were among China's 10 largest source markets of tourism in 2018, according to the ministry. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)