BEIJING TODAY
Grandma an art prodigy
Hutong hotels’ new look
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Pay up before you check in Starting this month, tourists to Lijiang, Yunnan Province, must pay an 80-yuan maintenance fee to enter the town. The new directive, called the “encircling the city policy,” aims to prevent tourists from evading the charge. Authorities said they will close several roads into the town and deploy an inspection team to verify that tourists paid the fee at its six main entrances. Will the move be sufficient to protect the UNESCO heritage town from the pressures of increasing commercialization?
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