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  A little recognized and probably unappreciated fact about China's remarkable reform and opening-up policy of the last 40-odd years, piloted ably by the Communist Party of China (CPC), is there is more to it than attracting foreign investments and technologies to stoke development in China, investors, economists and researchers said.   Reform and opening-up, including that in the financial services industry, are also about China growing in a spirit of win-win, to benefit the rest of the world as much as itself.   Perhaps no recent policy move illustrates this point more tellingly than the...

Over the last two years, Italy's massive tourism sector has been a study in contrasts: first too many tourists crowding the country's most popular spots, then almost none at all. Now, the sector is seeking to strike the right balance between the two extremes.   Before the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Italy, the big worry about tourism was over-crowding: the impact on infrastructure, the environment, and the quality of life of residents from many millions of tourists who clustered in a handful of locations, like Florence, Rome, and Venice.   Then, with the pandemic, tourism was virtually ...

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic completed its first fully crewed test flight of its spacecraft on Sunday, making a giant leap toward commercial suborbital spaceflight.   The mission, dubbed "Unity 22," was the company's fourth crewed spaceflight, and the 22nd flight test for the company's spacecraft VSS Unity.   It was also the first to carry a full crew of two pilots and four mission specialists in the cabin, including founder of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson, who was testing the private astronaut experience.   The crew took off from the company's homeport of Spaceport America in ...

A male Asian elephant that strayed from its wild herd a month ago was returned to Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in southwestern China's Yunnan province on Wednesday afternoon.   It left Xishuangbanna last year with 16 other elephants and the herd headed north. Two of the elephants returned to the nature reserve early this year.   After traveling more than 500 kilometers, the male elephant left the herd on June 6. The other 14 are still roaming in Xinping county, according to the command office in charge of monitoring their movement.   The male elephant had stayed alone on the outsk...

Chinese travelers' enthusiasm to venture out at night has been rising along with daytime temperatures, and COVID-19 being brought under better control in the country is also helping matters. Rising demand for after-dark activities is driving tourism and forcing service providers to upgrade their offerings.   In the first six months, admission ticket sales to nighttime sightseeing and tourist spots and other entertainment venues surged 469 percent year-on-year, with female visitors making up for 53 percent of the total. More specific figures weren't provided in a report released on Tuesday by...