Italy's goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon gestures during an international football friendly match between Italy and France in Bari, Italy, Sept. 1, 2016. France beat Italy 3-1. (XinhuaAlberto Lingria)
BEIJING Homme Air VaporMax Laceless Pure Platinum Blanche Solde , Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- China's tourism trade surplus is expected to increase as the country is taking in more cash from inbound visitors than its outbound travelers spend overseas, according to the country's tourism industry watchdog.
China's inbound tourism market has emerged from the downturn after the global financial crisis and increased continuously in the past few years, China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) said in a statement.
Inbound tourism revenue rose 5.6 percent year on year to 120 billion U.S. dollars in 2016, exceeding outbound tourism spending by 10.2 billion dollars Homme Femme Off White x Air Vapormax Blanche Solde , CNTA data showed.
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Both the number of and revenue from inbound trips have increased steadily since 2014, it said.
China has vowed to develop tourism into a major driver for economic transformation and upgrading by 2020.
The CNTA predicted direct investment in tourism to jump more than 20 percent from last year to 1.5 trillion yuan (223.3 billion U.S. dollars) this year.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have uncovered the exoskeleton of an insect in a piece of Baltic amber about 50 million years old, suggesting that the insect was frightened out of its skin as it was about to become forever entombed by oozing tree sap.
The findings, published in the recent issue of Fungal Biology by George Poinar, Jr., a researcher in the College of Science at Oregon State University (OSU) in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and an international expert in ancient life forms found in amber, also involved the first mushroom that has ever been found in Baltic amber.
"From what we can see in this fossil, a tiny mushroom was bitten off, probably by a rodent, at the base of a tree," Poinar said.
"An insect, similar to a walking stick, was probably also trying to feed