Surge seen in vacationers with scientific bent
China DailyA girl plays go with a robot at the 8th China-South Asia Exposition in Kunming, Yunnan province, on July 25. Travel agencies are receiving numerous bookings for Haiyang, a coastal city in East China's Shandong province, where an offshore rocket launch is scheduled to take place in August. In Dunhuang, Gansu province, a molten-salt solar thermal power station, dubbed the "super power plant in the desert", has become a popular tourist destination, offering a stark contrast to the city's millennium-old cultural relics. For instance, in Northwest China's Jinta county in Gansu, near the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, authorities recently unveiled a comprehensive plan to construct a tourism complex that offers space exhibitions, science education, science fiction entertainment and sightseeing services. Despite her tight travel schedule, Xiao Heng from Changsha, capital of Hunan province, has brought her 8-year-old son to watch one of the science films on their trip to Beijing.
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