TOURISM BOOST

Xiong Shanhua (third from left), deputy director-general of the China National Tourism Administration, alongside Fang Li, the Chinese consul general in Toronto, (to Xiong’s right); Senator Victor Oh (to Xiong’s left); MP Costas Menegakis (fifth from right), MPP Reza Moridi (to Fang’s right), and China National Tourist Office in Toronto director Xu Yan (right), pose at the 2014 Beautiful China - Rediscover the Silk Road tourism promotional event at the Sheraton Parkway Hotel in Richmond Hill on June 6. In 2013, more than 680,000 Canadians visited China. LI NA / CHINA DAILY, Richmond Hill