During this year's two sessions, Dai Bin, a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the China Tourism Academy, called for more efforts to promote marine tourism, including measures to enhance specialized research and top-level design, and build Hainan into a demonstration province for marine tourism and Sansha city into an international marine tourism demonstration zone.

　　He expressed hope that the transportation, culture and tourism departments will jointly promote and regulate the development of cruise tourism. “Not every city is suitable for developing a cruise home port. Top-level design should be carried out based on the characteristics and development needs of each city to avoid homogenized competition and redundant construction,“ he said.

　　Dai also advocated for more convenient cruise travel within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

　　As “China Travel“ becomes a new trend among foreign visitors, domestic tourist destinations are improving services catering to their needs.

　　Hang Kan, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress and director of the Yungang Research Institute, which oversees the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi, has observed an influx of foreign visitors to the grottoes in recent years.

　　With more than 59,000 Buddhist statues, the 1,500-year-old grottoes, which were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001, bear witness to the local adaptation and secularization of Buddhist art in ancient China.

　　Hang explained that while sculptures form a universal language, Westerners are particularly drawn to large, three-dimensional statues. Compared to China's many other grottoes, they exhibit more exotic influences resulting from East-West cultural exchanges. The historical connections make it easier for international tourists to understand its culture.