Shanghai, China's leading industrial and commercial center, hosted 2.5 million tourists in the first 11 months of the year, up 34.3 percent from the same period last year.
Sources from the Shanghai Municipal Tourism Administration said that the foreign tourists were mainly from Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United States.
Earnings from tourism for this period are not yet known.
An administration official predicted that 2.65 million overseas tourists would visit the Chinese mega-city this year.
Shanghai received 2.04 million overseas tourists and 82.54 million domestic tourists in 2001, with tourism earnings exceeding 100 billion yuan (US$12.05 billion).
(eastday.com December 17, 2002)
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