PHNOM PENH Cheap Nike Air Max 2018 Black , May 16 (Xinhua) -- China has overtaken Vietnam to become the 1st largest source of tourists to Cambodia, a Cambodian Tourism Ministry official said on Tuesday.

Kong Sopheareak, director of the Tourism Ministry's statistics and planning department, said that about 270,000 Chinese visitors came to Cambodia in the first quarter of 2017, up 26 percent over the same period last year Cheap Nike Air Max 90 Black , as the number of Vietnamese visitors to the kingdom declined by 6 percent to 203,400.

"It's for the first time that China overtakes Vietnam to become the biggest source of tourists to Cambodia," he told Xinhua, adding that Cambodia received a total of 1.5 million foreign holidaymakers during the January-March period this year, up 12 percent over the same period last year.

Sopheareak said Cambodia-China excellent relations, Cambodia's attractive tourism sites Cheap Nike Air Max Black , and more direct flights between the two countries are the key factors attracting more Chinese tourists and businessmen to Cambodia.

Currently, 12 airlines have been operating about 120 flights per week between Cambodian and Chinese cities, he said.

"It is expected that Chinese tourists to Cambodia will reach 1 million in 2017," he said.

Cambodia targets 2 million Chinese tourists by 2020.

Last year, the country launched a white paper which listed steps to be taken by tourism authorities to facilitate visits by Chinese tourists, such as providing Chinese signage and documents for visa processing Cheap Air Max 2018 Black , encouraging local use of the Chinese yuan currency, encouraging the use of Chinese language, and ensuring that food and accommodation facilities are suited to Chinese tastes.

The Southeast Asian nation is famous for the 12th century Angkor Archeological Park in northwestern Siem Reap province. Besides, it has a 450-km pristine coastline stretching across four provinces in the southwestern part.

Tourism is one of the four pillars supporting the local economy. In 2016, the country welcomed 5 million foreigners, including 830 Cheap Air Max 90 Black ,000 Chinese, earning gross revenue of 3.4 billion U.S. dollars, according to a Tourism Ministry report.

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SUZHOU, China Cheap Air Max Black , April 30 (Xinhua) -- Xu Xin and Zhang Jike of China survived a thrilling match against Masataka Morizono and Yuya Oshima of Japan to progress to the men's doubles semifinals of the Qoros 2015 World Table Tennis Championships at the Suzhou International Exhibition Centre on Thursday.

In the most exciting match of the round, the Japanese players took an early lead, winning the first game 11-9, but the Chinese duo got back into the match, levelling it by winning the second.

In the third it looked like Xu and Zhang began to impose their will on the match, winning it 11-7.

In the fourth game Cheap Nike Air Max 2018 Shoes , the teams traded points until Japan took a time-out at 6-5 and with their tactical changes implemented the Morizono and Oshima team went on to win the game and even the match at 2-2.

With the match in the balance at two games all and 9-9 in the fifth, it was the Japanese players who showed battling quality as Oshima ripped two spectacular cross-table forehand winners to get his team within one game of the victory.

In the sixth game, Xu and Zhang built a two-point lead at 8-6 when the Japanese took a time-out, but MorizonoOshima could not stop the Chinese teams from progressing as China pushed on to force a deciding game.

At 8-8 in the final game, Japan won a long rally and then in the following point Zhang put the ball into the net to give Morizono and Oshima two match points.

Incredibly, the Japanese duo could not convert either Cheap Nike Air Max 90 Shoes , letting Xu and Zhang off the hook and through to the next round.

In a surprisingly close match, the world No. 12 team of Lee Sangsu and Seo Hyundeok of South Korea were pushed all the way by Cazuo Matsumoto and Thiago Monteiro of Brazil.

The South Korean pair finally beat their opponnets in seven games and set up a semifinal clash against XuZhang.

The other semifinal will see Japanese Kenta Matsudaira and Koki Niwa against Chinese Fan Zhendong and Zhou Yu.

WUHAN, China, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Two-time champion Wang Yihan of China made a compelling statement on Wednesday by beating Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in just 33 minutes at the 2015 Badminton Asia Championships.

Wang, who has been below her best in recent months, was expected to be troubled in the women's singles second round by the fast-rising World Junior champion.

However Cheap Nike Air Max Shoes , the No. 6 seed from China looked dominant throughout the match and beat her young challenger 21-13, 21-7 to enter the last-16 round.

"Actually, when I was at the Singapore tournament, I knew I will play against her in Wuhan," said Wang Yihan after the match.

"I'd like to meet her again. She beat me in last year's Super Series final. And this time I hope to play my best. She made some errors." added by Wang, who will meet Indonesia's Maria Febe Kusumastuti on Thursday.

Wang's compatriots Li Xuerui and Wang Shixian also made the third round. Li overcame a second game loss to Vu Thi Trang of Vietnam while Wang Shixian had little trouble against Kazakhstan's Ilyana Filipchuk.

Li Xuerui Cheap Air Max 2018 Shoes , the London Olympic gold medallist, admitted that with fast progress of foreign opponents like India's current world number one Saina Nehwal, Chinese players had less advantages than usual in the Women's Singl.