The Yearbook of China Tourism is a professional yearbook organized by China National Tourism Administration, sponsored by the China Tourism Association and published by China Travel & Tourism Press, comprehensively reflecting the development and achievements of China's tourism industry. It has recorded the guidelines, policies, monographs, statistical data and related information of the Clunese tourism industry. To this day, a total of 28 volumes of The Yearbook of China Tourism have been published since its first publication in 1990. The Yearbook of China Tourism enjoys a rather high prestige in the industry.With the continuous development of tourist industry, tourism has been playing an increasingly important role in foreign exchanges; and tourism has become an important channel between China and the world for the spreading of civilization,cultural communication and the deepening of communication and understanding;while tourism diplomacy has risen into a national strategy. In view of this, China National Tourism Administration decided to publish The Yearbook of China Tourism in English since 2017.The English edition of The Yearbook of China Tourism 2017 was selected on the basis of the Chinese edition of The Yearbook of China Tourism 2017, and contains 9 chapters in content, including special documents, documents and articles,major events, tourism diplomacy, overview of the tourism industry, overview of local tourism development, law, regulations and bulletins, statistics and memorabilia. The main content refiected is the basic situation ofthe development of China's tourism industry in 2016.