CHENGDU

Train tours

Following consultations with many travel agencies, the Chengdu Railway Administration, which oversees 4,038 kilometres of railway lines in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces and Chong-qing Municipality, will offer 182 sightseeing trains on 11 hot routes from mid-April to late October. The routes start from Chengdu, Chongqing and Guiyang and head to Zhangjiajie, Xiamen, Kunming, Xi'an, Qing-dao, Beijing, Shen-zhen, Nanning, Beihai, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Fuzhou. Mt Huang-shan, Mt Wudang, Urumqi and Baotou. The administration will launch Chengdu-Xichang-Pan-zhihua, Chongqing-Guiyang, Guiyang-Kunming, Xichang and Panzhihua-Kunming, short-distance, weekend, sightseeing packages in Southwest China, an area abundant tourist resources. Its trains will head from Chengdu, Chongqing, Guiyang and Xichang each Friday and return on Sunday.