Economic Watch: China paves the way for more sustainable future through reform and opening up

by Xinhua writer Zhu Shaobin

BEIJING, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- From the lively food stalls in Taizhou city in east China's Jiangsu Province, where throngs of tourists gather, to the bustling Qianmen Street in Beijing where people queue up for tea-flavored ice cream in the hot summer, nighttime tourism is booming across China.

With a market scale valued at over 50 trillion yuan (about 7 trillion U.S. dollars), t