The US hotel chain Days Inn is expected to become the first international hotel brand to debut in the Changbai Mountains in northeast China's Jilin Province early next year, the administration committee of the mountain resort has said.

By renovating a hotel in Chixi District of the nature reserve for 120 million yuan (US$16 million), the Days Inn hotel will offer 122 European-style rooms. It plans to be operational on January 18.22.

(Shanghai Daily December 26, 2007)