[Guangzhou] Embassies busy with visa issues
Summer holiday comes and many Guangzhou residents choose to go to Southeast Asia, Europe, America and Canada for this year's holiday. And the embassies of these countries in Guangzhou all see long queues every day for visa application.

The embassies of Italy, German, Austria and France had adjusted their visa application arrangement or requirements for this peak tourism season respectively. Guangzhou citizens are advised to handle their visa issues one month before their European tour.

[Shenzhen] More flights planned for summer travel peak
(By Shenzhen Daily, Tan Xiaomi)

LOCAL airlines are to add an extra 500 flights in Shenzhen Airport during the two-month summer vacation.

Detailed flight schedules are available on Shenzhen International Airport's Web site, www.szairport.com, with information in Chinese.

More than 40,000 passengers departed from the city's airport yesterday, including more than 2,000 children joining tour groups or student summer camps. The airport expects the number of passengers to keep rising until the end of August, when tens of thousands of local students end their annual summer vacations.

The Shenzhen Railway Station also said that it would operate additional high-speed bullet trains between Shenzhen and Guangzhou daily during the summer travel peak.

The railway station says there may be a shortage of rail tickets to popular destinations like Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Wuhan, Wuchang and Zhengzhou.

The provincial rail service provider expects more than 27 million people will travel by train during the summer travel peak which will last 62 days. Most of the passengers will be students, tourists and migrant workers.

Editor: Wing