BEIJING: Young Chinese are exploring new business avenues on the side, such as teaching Chinese, offering Chinese name-giving services and working as foreign language tour guides, driven by the rising popularity of inbound tourism and an increasing number of foreign users joining Chinese social media platforms, industry players say.
In the past year until mid-February, the number of available products related to tour guide services for foreign visitors and on giving foreigners Chinese names have increased by 98%, while the ordering volume of those products has surged by 275% year-on-year.
