{"id":4528,"date":"2016-04-28T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T10:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/south-china-city-gears-up-for-satellite-tourism\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T10:25:02","slug":"south-china-city-gears-up-for-satellite-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/south-china-city-gears-up-for-satellite-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"South China city gears up for satellite tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South China&#8217;s Wenchang City in Hainan Province is preparing to welcome rocket-watching tourists to the country&#8217;s fourth space launch center.<\/p>\n<p>The city has completed about 70 percent of tourism preparation work for the Wenchang satellite center&#8217;s first launch, scheduled for June, including improving the transportation network, and building more parking lots and public toilets, according to a conference on April 26,2016.<\/p>\n<p>China currently has three other satellite launch centers in Jiuquan, Xichang and Taiyuan, all with different functions.<\/p>\n<p>Fu Yongfeng, deputy Party Secretary of Wenchang City, said the city has been gearing up to serve and ensure the safety of tourists who come for the center&#8217;s first launch.<\/p>\n<p>An information center for tourists will also open ahead of Wenchang&#8217;s first launch, and more job opportunities will be created for locals, according to Fu.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Wenchang received about 1.7 million domestic and overseas tourists, which generated about 1.2 billion yuan in revenue (about 185 million U.S. dollars).(Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South China&#8217;s Wenchang City in Hainan Province is preparing to welcome rocket-watching tourists to the country&#8217;s fourth space launch center. The city has completed about 70 percent of tourism preparation work for the Wenchang satellite center&#8217;s first launch, scheduled for June, including improving the transportation network, and building more parking lots and public toilets, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}