The tourism revenue in Xiamen rose to 140.2 billion yuan ($ 20.6 billion) last year, up 19.99 percent year-on-year, according to the Xiamen Tourism Development Commission.
Yu Weiguo, Party chief of Fujian, on Thursday, called for more efforts to build Xiamen into an innovation hub, a pivotal city bolstering the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road as well as a spearhead in the nation's new round of reform and opening-up.
Xiamen in East China's Fujian province came in second on the recent list of 10 of the World's Best Places to Visit for 2019 launched by the Austrian daily Oesterreich.
A total of 13,018 vessel trips were made between Xiamen and Kinmen, an islet in Taiwan in 2018, transporting 1.745 million passengers in total, up 8.1 percent year-on-year, the latest statistics from the Xiamen port authorities show.
Masaaki Nakamura, director of the Japanese city Kumamoto's office in Shanghai, visited Xiamen, Fujian province from Jan 5 to 7 to learn from the Chinese city's advanced experience in marathon organization.
