Chairman's Words

Tourist industry is among the fastest developing industries with characteristics of comprehension, correlation, promoting other related industries. It has great potential demands, and promising prospects, thus, it is called "An Everlasting Prosperous Industry". With the social and economic prosperity and development, as well as increasing improvement of living standard, this industry has maintained rapid and sound development, and has become a vital industry in the national economy. It has gradually become a common understanding that the tourist industry will accelerate economic growth, social progress, cultural prosperity, and the overall development of human.

Nowadays, the economic globalization is speeding up; science and technology are advancing each passing day. And informatization with the Internet as a platform is increasingly affect human´s production and lives, and also China´s tourism development.

The website of CNTA(http://www.cnta.gov.cn/), a government website, is a platform to issue the national tourism policies and regulations, a window to reflect tourism development as well as a channel to share tourism information. And now this website has a new edition, which meets the needs of service-oriented government and authorities. It provides a public information service with tourism policies and regulations, statistical data and trend in this field.

We hope that through this website, CNTA can build a bridge of communications with all departments, firms, employees and customs in this field in our country, which can enable the society have a better understanding of this field and also let tourism better serve the society.

Chairman: Shao Qiwei