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China has become the largest tourist source country in Japan. The consumption of Chinese tourists vi

(original title: China has become the largest tourist source country in Japan, contributing 57.3 billion yuan in half a year)

On July 31, Japan's opening of online visas for Chinese tourists triggered a heated debate. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said he would open online applications for visas for some Chinese tourist groups going to Japan alone. China has become Japan's largest tourist source country, according to data released by the riguanguang Bureau on the 17th. In the first half of 2019, 16 million 630 thousand foreign tourists visited China, and 4 million 532 thousand and 500 of Chinese mainland tourists accounted for nearly 3 of the total number of tourists. In the first half of the year, the amount of foreign tourists consumed in Japan was 2 trillion and 432 billion 600 million yen (about 154 billion 300 million yuan), and the contribution of tourists from Chinese mainland was the largest, reaching 895 billion yen (about 57 billion 300 million yuan).