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China has called the favorite of Russian tourists and the reasons that hinder the development of turoborota between the two countries.
Through the mutual holding the annual tourism between China and Russia in the last two years have witnessed a marked increase in the number of Russian tourists visiting China, said in an interview with Xinhua korr.agentstva deputy director of the Europe CHINA society. Cheng Jie .
» More and more Russians prefer to visit the border towns in the north-east of China, for example, the city of Heihe in Heilongjiang Province and the city of Hunchun, Jilin Province » — Said Zhang Guantsyan — CEO of tourist company «Yuandun» (translated from the Chinese, «Far East») in Jilin Province.
According to the data, in 2012 a total of 2 million 426 thousand 200 Russians visited China, and in January of this year the figure was 172 thousand 700 people, an increase of 27 percent.
In recent years, many Chinese cities there were border signs in Russian, Russian-speaking traders in the street lured Russian tourists, and the Russians are busy buying gifts, porcelain, prints, which they are most interested.
According to the deputy head of the State Administration of Tourism of China Zhu Shanchzhuna , To date, China and Russia are going to hold 382 events in the Year of Chinese tourism in Russia, 235 of them will be organized by China, 147 — the Russian side.
However, according to Cheng Jie , Now there are some constraints on tourism between China and Russia. » First — increase this year the price of flights between the two countries by 20 — 30 percent, and in the busy season — even double «, — She said.
She believes that the lack of skilled Russian-speaking guides, dishonesty in the Chinese tourism market and other factors hinder the expansion of Chinese enterprises to the Russian market.
» Hopefully these problems will be properly addressed through mutual holding annual tourism between China and Russia, which will encourage many more Russians visit China » — Summed up the speech clerk.