Beijing Receives More Visitors

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 ◆ Beijing Receives More Visitors

Beijing received more than 2.85 million overseas visitors in 2001, a rise of 1.31 percent on a yearly basis, earning 2.95 billion U.S. dollars in foreign exchange, according to statistics published here recently.

Domestic visitors to the Chinese capital totaled 74.62 million,up by 10.7 percent. The city harvested an income of 83.2 billion yuan (10.02 billion U.S. dollars), rising by 30 percent when compared with the previous year, according to the Beijing Municipal Tourism Administration.

Statistics show that the number of visitors for sight-seeing dropped from the 67 percent in 1998 to 44 percent last year, and the number of visitors for businesses and conferences rose by 10 percentage points and three percentage points, respectively.