Golden Lotus Square, a tourist spot in Macao. [Photo/IC] MACAO -- Visitors on package tours to Macao rose by 39.6 percent year-on-year to 996,000 in March, the special administrative region (SAR)'s statistic service said here on Tuesday. Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that package tour visitors from the Chinese mainland (803,000), China's Taiwan (61,000) and the Hong Kong SAR (20,000) surged by 47.5 percent, 11.3 percent and 47.1 percent respectively, and those from South Korea (63,000) went up by 31.1 percent. In the first quarter of 2019, there were more than 2.4 million package tour visitors, an increase of 16.5 percent year-on-year. As the Easter holiday began at the end of March in 2018 yet in the mid of April this year, outbound residents using services of travel agencies in March 2019 decreased by 10.1 percent year-on-year to 121,000. There were 117 hotels and guesthouses operating at the end of March 2019, an increase of two year-on-year. Number of available guest rooms grew by 2.2 percent year-on-year to 39,000, with 5-star hotel rooms rising by 3.1 percent to 24,000 (62.9 percent of total). rubber wristbandscustom charm braceletsinspirational rubber braceletscartier rubber braceletcheap custom wristbands
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visits Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Sichuan province, on Feb 11, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua] ZHAOJUE, Sichuan -- Chinese President Xi Jinping Sunday visited the homes of impoverished villagers of the Yi ethnic group who live deep in the Daliang Mountains of Zhaojue County, Sichuan Province in southwest China. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, asked the villagers about their lives and discussed poverty alleviation with local officials and villagers. custom woven friendship braceletscustom baseball wristbandschild size silicone wristbandswristbands online coupon codesilicone wristbands for sale<%2fcenter>