Quake-hit Sichuan Province will invest about 80 billion yuan (11.6 billion U.S. dollars) to restore its tourism industry, the province's top tourism official said on Tuesday. Zhang Gu, the Sichuan Provincial Tourism Bureau director, told reporters here that the bureau had completed a post-quake reconstruction plan involving more than 300 projects. The funding, 30 percent of which comes from the central budget, would be used to rebuild roads, hotels, restaurants and scenic spots, ...

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