Hotel guest number

A TOTAL of 883,000 guests checked in Macao’s hotel establishments in February 2023, soaring 78.5% year on year, the Macao Special Administrative Region’s (SAR) statistics department said Wednesday.

The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service showed that guests from the Chinese mainland and the Hong Kong SAR hiked by 62.2% and 806.4%year on year to 643,000 and 162,000, respectively.

Childcare services

A TOTAL of 33 Chinese cities and districts have been named demonstration areas for childcare services, according to a circular released Wednesday.

The demonstration areas should deepen their efforts to provide various forms of publicly accessible childcare services, the circular says.

Highland barley

TIBET Autonomous Region plans to expand the planting area of highland barley to 2.2 million mu (146,667 hectares) this year to ensure a stable increase in the output of the long-established Tibetan grain on the “Roof of the World.”