China's National Tourism Administration (CNTA) announced recently that village tours will be the theme of tourism next year and the advertising slogan will be "new farm, new tourism, new experience and new trend."

CNTA urged local authorities at various levels to stand firmly on their concrete situations and make it their goals to boost the development of farm construction by tourism industry. It urged local authorities to make practical plans to promote tourism and cultivate more products in agricultural tours and village tours.

CNTA expects that progress will be made in the coming year and village tours will be developed faster and better and such tours will contribute to the construction of rural areas in socialist society.

(Chinanews.cn December 30, 2005)