The Renfengli Folk Cultural Festival in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, has been listed among outstanding cases in boosting tourism consumption.

Here are examples of rice paddy art, or tanbo, in Maji town, Yizheng, a county-level city in Yangzhou, East China's Jiangsu province.

China announced on Thursday the resumption of group tours to another 78 countries, including popular destinations such as Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia.

Travel demand of Chinese people has kept on rising in this summer, which can be attributed to the combination of family-visit, tourism and student passenger flows.

The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Start of Autumn, (Chinese: 立秋), the 13th solar term of the year, begins this year on Aug 8 and ends on Aug 22.