China Focus: Chinese tourists delve into novel spheres, embrace thrills

by Xinhua writer Wang Aihua

BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Inside a retired naval submarine docked alongside Shanghai's landmark Huangpu River, a group of tourists moving in single file in a cramped passage followed a tour guide in pursuit of novel knowledge about military life under the sea.

Shi Haosen, a 9-year-old boy from the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province in east China, said he was enthralled to