An official of Turismo de Portugal has said the Portuguese tourism authority hopes 400,000 Chinese will visit Portugal this year or next, making their country one of the 10 biggest sources of visitors to Portugal, Xinhua reports. The Chinese government-run news agency quotes the official, Nuno Madeira, as telling a gathering in Lisbon that the numbers of Chinese visiting Portugal have grown considerably in recent years, rising 18 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019.