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Chinese tourism changed significantly trough last years. Especially after opening the Chinese economic to the wide world market and liberalizing the travelling of Chinese people, the general profile of China`s tourism got qualitative new characteristics and performance. Even more, for another year the majority of the economic indicators presented stable growth, which witnessed over again the great perspective to the future development of Chinese tourism – domestic and international. On the other side, EU is one of the most important long-term partners of China. This fact creates the necessity to elaborate strong basis for this relationship, which results in the development of many strategic documents. One of them is the strategy “EU – China 2020”, in which location 2018 was pronounced as a year of tourism. The current paper tries to investigate and characterize the tourism of China in the context of the strategy “EU – China 2020” and to summarize the future perspectives in front of EU-China partnership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]