Sports Tours in Dalian Introduced

Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, has introduced sports tours to attract more visitors.

Dalian is well known for its football team because it has won the national football team championships for four times in a row over the past six years.

Li Changchun, the first Chinese who has participate in the Olympic Games, was from Dalian.

Tourists will be able to do mountain climbing, horse riding, skating as well as visiting local football and marathon training centers.

The city's tourism and sports bureaus have been working on the these tours for over a year before they officially started earlier this week.



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