Xinhua Headlines: Allure of Spring Festival and new visa policy attract foreign visitors to see the real China

BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- As the Chinese people are celebrating the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, they have been joined this year by an increased number of foreign tourists, who have come to experience Chinese culture following the implementation of a new visa-free transit policy.

Andrea Schmitt and her husband, a couple from Berlin of Germany, are among those foreign tourists.

The co