Summer Tour Scoreboard, Chengdu ranks third According to the "2009 National Summer Tour List" released by the Strip.com on September 2nd, under the leveraging effect of panda cards, tourists coming to Chengdu this summer increased by more than 200% compared with the same period of last year, which made Chengdu just behind Beijing, Xiamen, with the city ascending the second-runner "throne" as the third most popular summer tourist destination in China. 8. [read post]