Myanmar Regime Wants to Welcome Back Chinese Tourists Myanmar Regime Wants to Welcome Back Chinese Tourists A Chinese tourist rides in a horse-drawn carriage in Bagan in July 2019. / Zaw Zaw / The Irrawaddy 744 By The Irrawaddy 13 May 2021 Myanmar’s military regime is pressing ahead with plans to promote Chinese tourism to the country, despite the political crisis caused by the junta’s Feb. 1 coup and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Military-controlled newspapers said U Maung Maung Ohn, the junta-appointed Minister for Hotels and Tourism (MOHT), made inspection tours of hotels and tourist sites in the commercial capital Yangon on Wednesday to assess their readiness for the potential arrival of Chinese tourists.