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53.4 bn yuan losses in tourism
 BY  2008-06-05 08:17:21

BEIJyKDKN UGING -- China's touri#QQ@%@+fP$2fvOJsm sector has lost 5&)4b&biXCc l$#HOB6#o3fp13.4 billion yuan ($71gL7SnktiY.6 billion) from theYJoWu0$js4L6 8.0-magnitude earthjSGquake that hit SichuddfGX5q9Yctw0bz3AR@-(+kj)4VFTs^BT@oRZMF37-an Province on May 1y-Zn*@2RnMNXXdn8XlAwcnn9czP32O5@IE@f^$-xUrZ^Qxm!Gs2.

According )h$+p$^eto the China Tourism5b*3)4wfp4PDuOS*A4us#D pO*ws^&H%7$ Administration, 54 rhX)OOxOtTJ!@oy(Gr0ymd0&4if7Qzi7rR!UaMVIKuKl JJpeople, including onLgZ7+cNh%4&!&$x4 (pUb+g31EO8e from Taiwan and 530^pBZ C8H#fXWH$KgcZ+ mainland tourists, Z^)&EHxwere killed in SichuYuP1vHE#E!7I50gMN#&vG7W%UICGe$xpMysan. Another 25 were 15#MjPccY4an4 PFAGXDePMZ16d!xQIrzlinjured, while 55,48S(Km8YeSj8OI%s@aLugZe%P5MR@)KM7 s-7 were held back.

The Sichuan tounHSkA7RRVi@rism industry lost 5sp$(u1DZngQ#YYhj4aazWW@2.83 billion yuan, wbIEcKMutQK42tf+!ih*Z!^arcyuqtW$hile Shaanxi Provinczcw5Y+Cp^Q-uHMxE0 Wi5Ze lost 290 million yd)J uODDl-dBu)UI%&uan. Gansu Province j8lost 181 million yuap0(I(VDUIVcDzyL^hhNBjR5o+iNt7BCIdh2E@NuyGr$zHC9r30yEn.

The quake NLq7j*V@FFbp$a8lwal#YDi)S^Psz%!NI-8*6%b6V4sawHrmEO4Ohas damaged roads, tQmT0V-UrXU4Thelecom, water and elA0C7i 83dHI6Eo8uME4ectrical supply systaT-FgBWVzR1Z&fWxHJzO-It+F24ems, as well as hote)nQPNj%I#2^-DUu o3-5Ho*TaiymFgLQRI$mTls, restaurants. SomKljk$@vq3I7HFhFQAh2Q@YJZF)Sv4PFV1N8IFKe travel agencies haH@Fp+&mN5v!L 7F$If66+ZG4vQcgRusslBrvLARRduTfve had to stop businHess.

More tha4ZaeUd70ieSbLUfUVEMkZj#Ww%X5YMmYn 300,000 staff who M0(tqwMC)AcJXw^G*HEfC(Zle8I4$0tV!work in tourism indu9@NmFWG&stry may lose their FXa7sbwzX@tXjobs or receive no pQ#KAOgRYP0* 3(uCRRSnC9(N2vLcyKGsfEUBway.

(Editor: Caroline) (From: Xinhua)

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