Yao Girls Learning Foreign Language

On March 6, evening, ringing voices of book reading broke the silence of Sishui Village of the Yaos, Longsheng Multi-ethnic Groups Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Following the sound thither, the reporter saw Yao girls learning tourism English in a classroom of the village's primary school. According to teacher Shi Lianhai, the village has by its tourism attracted a multitude of Chinese and foreign visitors in recent years. Coming on a tour of the village, they drink tea and watch song and dance parties of the Yaos. There already arises the heat for learning tourism English by people in the village.

It is reported that 167,000-peopled Longsheng had received in 1999 alone a total of 322,000 tourists, mostly from abroad, thereby a net amount of 27 million yuan of tourism earnings to the county.

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