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BEIJING Marcel Schmelzer Jersey , Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- This year's three-day New Year holiday saw more visitors choosing to spend time in Beijing, with people flocking to many of the capital's outdoor winter sports sites.


About 2.4 million tourists visited 130 major tourists destinations in Beijing, according to data from the Beijing Holiday Tourism Work Group. This is a 4.5-percent increase year on year.


Parks with outdoor facilities were particularly crowded during the Jan. 1-3 holiday. Beihai Park, which has a large pond in downtown Beijing, saw about 120,000 tourists, up 37 percent year on year.


The Summer Palace Marc Bartra Jersey , Yuyantan Park, Taoranting Park, Beihai Park, Zizhuyuan Park and Beijing Botanical Garden were among the most popular destinations for skiing and skating.


Ski resorts in suburban Beijing also reported increased visitors.


Village tourism, on the outskirts of Beijing, is also booming. About 340,000 people spent their holiday time in suburban Beijing Mahmoud Dahoud Jersey , up 8.9 percent year on year. Tourists spent 25.84 million yuan (about 4.1 million U.S dollars) while visiting the villages, up 14. 6 percent year on year, the statistics showed.


RABAT, May 8 (Xinhua) -- For many centuries, Morocco had played a major role in the old Maritime Silk Road, connecting the major civilizations of Asia, Europe and Africa.


With the Belt and Road Initiative Lukasz Piszczek Jersey , Morocco is set to regain its role and contribute to the embodiment of China's promising proposal to build a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road in cooperation with related countries.


The North African kingdom offers a number of assets to contribute to this ambitious initiative. Morocco enjoys a long-standing history of exchange and cooperation with the countries along the old Silk Road, and China, which will host the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on May 14 and 15, is on the top of them.


Morocco and China share a long history of exchanges and a long tradition of friendship. Back in the middle of the seventh century, one Chinese, named Du Huan, already travelled to Morocco. Later on Julian Weigl Jersey , in the 13th century, Wang Dayuan of the Yuan dynasty also went as far as Morocco.


In the 14th century, Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta travelled to China and had stayed nearly three decades in the country. In the end of his travels to various countries, he wrote a book where he dedicated a whole chapter to his journey to China, narrating with great amazement the grandeur of Chinese civilization.


Despite the far geographic distance between the two countries, their exchange has never stopped