China has reached an agreement with Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Brunei that Chinese people can take overseas travel to these countries from June 10, according to the National Tourism Administration, the Beijing Youth Post reported today.

Beginning June 10, Chinese people can take package tours to the four countries, while before they could only take border trips with frontier passports before, a spokesman with China Travel Agency said. They only can take their cars before, so some faraway places such as South Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh city were not available, said the spokesman.

After the agreement, Chinese tourists can have formal visas to these countries, and travel agencies can add other travel routes to allow the tourists to visit Hong Kong and Macao, the spokesman added.

Some qualified travel agencies have begun to form travel groups. The China Travel Agency co-operated with China Southern Airlines to form travel groups to Vietnam and Cambodia on June 15, with a journey of eight days.

Up to 14 countries and areas are available for Chinese people for overseas travel to date.

(Eastday.com.cn 05/30/2001)