China\u2019s first home-grown large cruise ship has now handled 1 million passengers since its commercial debut two years ago, a sign of progress as Beijing strives to boost household spending on services and cultivate new growth drivers.<\/p>\n
The operator of the Adora Magic City announced the news via its website on Sunday, saying it aimed to propel the growth of China\u2019s cruise economy and establish a \u201cChinese benchmark\u201d for the global cruise industry.<\/p>\n
Construction of the company\u2019s second domestically made cruise ship, the Adora Flora City, is over 90 per cent complete, according to the firm. The vessel \u2013 which is being built by a subsidiary of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation \u2013 is scheduled to be delivered this year and will then operate on international routes from its base in Guangzhou, southern China.<\/p>\n
On Friday, policymakers unveiled a road map for turning the transport sector into a driver of domestic demand, which identified cruise ships and yachts as key potential growth areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cSupport will be extended to eligible regions to develop cruise services and broaden the network of cruise home port routes,\u201d said Liu Dong, a senior official in the Ministry of Transport\u2019s planning department, at a press conference in Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s first home-grown large cruise ship has now handled 1 million passengers since its commercial debut two years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139021,139022,2102,72,114,139020,113,16547,61,60,139023,139019,112062,5698],"class_list":{"0":"post-290048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-adora-flora-city","9":"tag-adora-magic-city","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-china-state-shipbuilding-corporation","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-guangzhou","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-liu-dong","19":"tag-ministry-of-culture-and-tourism","20":"tag-ministry-of-transport","21":"tag-shanghai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}