News Snapshot:
SEARCHES of “Where to go in Xinjiang in April?” have increased 275 percent in the last 24 hours, according to Chinese tourism platform mafengwo.com on Thursday. Other Xinjiang-related keywords are getting increasing attention on the tourism platform. Searches for “Xinjiang travel guide” rose 74 percent, and searches about self-guided tours to the Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture also doubled. Topics about “travel searches in Xinjiang have nearly tripled” became trends on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform. Enjoying the blossoming apricot flowers has become one of the selling points of Xinjiang’s spring tourism. As the hashtag “I support Xinjiang cotton” went...
