Southwest China peaks become winter magnet for Southeast Asian tourists

KUNMING, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Dawn had barely broken over Hekou Port on the China-Vietnam border on New Year's Day when long lines of Vietnamese tourists, luggage in hand, were already waiting eagerly to cross, their sights set on a winter escape.

On Jan. 1 alone, more than 3,000 travelers from Vietnam entered China via Hekou in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Many then boarded high-speed trains bound for Jiaozi