The tourism industry and retailers are readying for a sharp upturn in the number of Chinese visitors to post-Brexit Britain, starting with this summer's tourist season.
Forty years ago, when Gao Zhihong had just graduated from college, she went home to visit her family.
For years, the image of Chinese visitors to Britain has been linked with the tour bus.
Wang Haiyan has been busy all summer trying to find the right summer program in the UK for her son, a high school freshman.
More direct flights are becoming available between Britain and China, highlighting growing mobility between the countries thanks to stronger economic, tourism and education ties.
French authorities are beefing up security and have pledged to issue visas faster to Chinese as part of efforts to win back tourists scared off by recent terrorist attacks on its cities.
It has now been more than a month since Britain's referendum on leaving the European Union.
Few trips made by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang have been more sensitively and subtly timed than his first overseas journey of the year.
As the man in the white lab coat talks quietly, a group of children surrounding him listen attentively.
Premier Li Keqiang has called on the European Union to fulfill its obligation to drop the Surrogate Country approach from its anti-dumping measures against Chinese exports.
The Asia-Europe Meeting is the right platform for a conversation on shared global challenges.
China would not rule out the option of setting up an air defense identification zone over the South China Sea if it felt threatened, according to a senior Chinese diplomat.