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China’s Yichang enriches nighttime consumption scenarios with distinctive night tours

By Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan 2 min read

Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.

China’s Yichang enriches nighttime consumption scenarios with distinctive night tours
(240918) -- BEIJING, Sept. 18, 2024 (Xinhua) -- In this drone photo, tourists visit a night market at Taixing City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Sept. 15, 2024. Some 629.56 million passenger trips were handled by China's transportation sectors during the three-day holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival, up 31.1 percent year on year, data from the Ministry of Transport showed on Wednesday. Of the total, China recorded 42.57 million passenger trips by railway, 1.98 million by water, and 5.07 million by air. Road traffic took the lion's share, with 579.94 million passenger trips. The Mid-Autumn Festival fell on Sept. 17 this year. (Photo by Gu Jihong/Xinhua)

Tourists enjoy a night view during a boat ride in Yichang, central China’s Hubei Province, Aug. 26, 2026.

Since the start of the summer vacation, the city of Yichang has enriched nighttime consumption scenarios with distinctive night tours by leveraging its resources along the Yangtze River, boosting the development of local tourism. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

Tourists enjoy a light show during a boat ride in Yichang, central China’s Hubei Province, Aug. 26, 2026.

Since the start of the summer vacation, the city of Yichang has enriched nighttime consumption scenarios with distinctive night tours by leveraging its resources along the Yangtze River, boosting the development of local tourism. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

Tourists enjoy a night view during a boat ride in Yichang, central China’s Hubei Province, Aug. 26, 2026.

Since the start of the summer vacation, the city of Yichang has enriched nighttime consumption scenarios with distinctive night tours by leveraging its resources along the Yangtze River, boosting the development of local tourism. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

Tourists enjoy a light show during a boat ride in Yichang, central China’s Hubei Province, Aug. 26, 2026.

Since the start of the summer vacation, the city of Yichang has enriched nighttime consumption scenarios with distinctive night tours by leveraging its resources along the Yangtze River, boosting the development of local tourism. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

Tourists enjoy a night view during a boat ride in Yichang, central China’s Hubei Province, Aug. 26, 2026.

Since the start of the summer vacation, the city of Yichang has enriched nighttime consumption scenarios with distinctive night tours by leveraging its resources along the Yangtze River, boosting the development of local tourism. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

This photo taken on Aug. 26, 2026 shows tourists taking photos aboard a boat passing through a ship lock of the Gezhouba Dam in Yichang, central China’s Hubei Province.

Since the start of the summer vacation, the city of Yichang has enriched nighttime consumption scenarios with distinctive night tours by leveraging its resources along the Yangtze River, boosting the development of local tourism. 

Reference Link:- https://english.news.cn/20260827/54514c46c90c4f6f95e1761b37ac9628/c.html

Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan
Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…

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