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- A scary-big fungus was recently photographed on display at a specialty shop in Hezhou, Guangxi. The ganoderma lucidum, known as the lingzhi mushroom in China, measures 107 centimeters in diameter, weighs 7.5 kilograms and is probably large enough to protect Kim Jong-un and his entire entourage...
- China Southern Airlines has moved to secure it position as the largest airline operating in southern China's Guangxi region, with the launch of more international services from the capital Nanning to Thailand Chiang Mai, Bangkok and Seoul South Korea in February 2015.
- The south China city of Guilin, transport hub for the backpacker haven of Yangshuo County, began to offer 72-hour visa-free stays to international transit passengers on Monday.
- A new airline has been given permission to Beibu Gulf Airlines and commence operations from Nanning Airport using GX flight code in the Guangxi region of southern China.
- Guilin's scenery is peerless in the world, an old saying goes, and Chinese painters living in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region capture the beauty of the land in their ink-and-wash paintings.
- When the 7th Guangxi Famous Agricultural Products Trade Fair opened, at the Guilin International Convention Center, in Guilin, attracted around 1,000 Guanxi enterprises with 2000 of green, organic, pollution-free agricultural products.
- Guilin ity famed for natural beauty expects 15% rise in tourists over next 2 years. What can be a better dream for a tourist city than attracting more visitors? For Lin Yejiang, head of Guilin's tourist administration, his dream is bound to come true.
- Starwood is on course to dramatically expand its Four Points by Sheraton international hotel brand in China. The latest opening of Four Points by Sheraton Lingui Guilin in the famous tourist destination extends the brand footprint to 23 hotels by the end of 2014
- China's cultural authorities have taken measures to revive the opera, listing it as a state-level intangible cultural heritage in 2006.
- Ticket in hand, I arrived at Beijing West, a giant hulk of a railway station. It take less than 10 hours for the 1,956km journey from the capital to Guilin, the southwestern city whose karst mountains have made it one of China’s most popular tourist destinations, used to take 26 hours.
