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WASHINGTON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- China is in the middle of a rural tourism boom amid the COVID-19 pandemic, CNN reported on Tuesday. Chinese-owned Trip.com, one of the world's largest online travel agencies, said that by March 2021, rural tourism trips in China had increased by more than 300 percent year-on-year, CNN said in a report. In recent days, Chinese tourists are heading not just to domestic historic and natural wonders -- some are looking for something a bit different, like spending a day picking mulberries, watching rice grow, fishing by the seaside and eating home-grown food, the report said....
