China, known to everybody as “World’s Factory” is not only a huge state with thousands of plants and overpopulated cities , whose total population exceeds one billion people, but also one of the most interesting and various tourist centers. The third largest country (after Russia and Canada), it has everything that can be interesting to a foreigner: architectural monuments of one of the most ancient civilizations, national parks with different climate and nature, modern metropolises and small provincial towns which managed to preserve their original culture, amazing sand beaches and inaccessible snow-white mountain tops. Over the past 30 years an inrush of tourists has grown by many times and today China ranks the world’s 6th in number of tourists. However, China was used to be one of the most closed-off countries for tourists. It was not until the end of the 1970-s when the situation considerably changed, the government even took profound measures. For example, in year 1988 Hainan isle in the southern part of the country was granted a status of a province, and tourism became a priority industry in its economy; the factories were moved from the coast to other regions, while the beaches were developed to compact worlds. Nowadays China keeps on attracting tourists, implementing reforms in the sphere of visa regime