Anhui Receives 820 Million Tourists in 2019

Up to 820 million tourists visited East China’s Anhui province in 2019, up 13.6 percent from a year earlier, according to a statistical report on Anhui’s economic and social development in 2019.

The province attracted 6.6 million tourists from overseas, a year-on-year rise of 8 percent. 3.8 million out of them came from foreign countries, and 2.8 million from China’s Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

The province’s tourism revenue rose 17.7 percent year on year to 852.6 billion yuan (US$121.3 billion) last year, up 17.7 percent from 2018. The tourism sector registered US$3.4 billion in foreign exchange revenue, a year-on-year increase of 6.3 percent. Its domestic tourism revenue reached 829.2 billion yuan, up 17.9 percent.

The International Tourism and Culture Demonstration Zone in South Anhui posted a year-on-year increase of 17.2 percent in tourism revenue, which hit 44.4 billion yuan. The zone includes such renowned tourist destinations as Huangshan Mountain, Jiuhua Mountain, Tianzhu Mountain, Xidi and Hongcun.