Rural tourism becomes popular in China (7/12)

A tourist poses for photos at a scenery area in Hailin City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 24, 2006. Rural tourism becomes more and more popular in China in recent years. According to China National Tourism Administration, rural tourism received 720 million visitors with an income of 216 billion yuan (35.68 U.S. billion dollars) in 2012. (Xinhua/Wang Song)