CITS Head Office was officially established in Beijing in 1954 under the concern of Premier Zhou Enlai. With 55 years of persistent hard work and continual effort, CITS Head Office has developed as a state-owned large corporation integrated with travel service, communication and transportation, foreign trade, real estate development and management, e-commerce and etc, and become one of the largest and most influential tourism enterprises. Over the last 50 years, CITS Head Office has solicited and received over 10 million man-times of foreign tourists in China, obtained foreign exchange of US$ 3 billion. CITS Head Office has established a steady and long-term business relationship with more than 1,400 travel agencies all over the world, and has set up 14 branches in major countries and regions including Europe, United States, Japan and Australia, and owns 150 subsidiaries and chain enterprises domestically. CITS Head Office took the first place of China Top 100 Travel Agencies in the ranking made by China National Tourism Administration for tourism enterprises. Now, "CITS" has edged among the China’s 500 Most Valuable Brands on ranking list of 49th with a brand valuation of 15.183 billion Yuan published by World Brand Lab, and has been registered in over 60 countries and regions in the world. With its great contribution to tourism, CITS Head Office has become the only Chinese enterprise in the World Tourism Organization (WTO).