Chinese visitors break new record

AN ESTIMATED 6,400 Chinese visitors to France have broken another the world record - for the “longest human sentence seen from the sky”.

The visitors, who are all part of the delegation from the company Tiens, whose visit has been entirely paid for by the company’s owner Li Jinyuan, formed the sentence “Tiens’ dream is Nice in the Côte d'Azur” on the Promenade des Anglais yesterday.

The message was created for a special photograph, and the record confirmed by officials from the Guinness Book of Records.

It is already believed that the French trip - involving 5,400 staff from China and 1,000 from other countries - is the biggest single visit in the world. To accommodate all his guests, Mr Li booked 4,760 rooms in 79 four or five-star hotels, between Cannes and Monaco. He also requisitioned 146 buses to allow his staff to travel in the region.

They had earlier travelled down from Paris on the TGV. Train operator SNCF had to lay on two extra trains and organise extra staff to handle to extra demand.

Photo: France TV Info screengrab