Dr. Xu Yong Deputy Director General of Economic and Technological Cooperation Department of Jilin Province,P.R.C.

The Development of Snow and Ice Industry in China Jilin Province Provides a Broad Space for the Cooperation With Austria 2017.4.26

Beautiful Jilin

Geographic location advantage the geographic center of Northeast Asia Jilin Province is located in the center of Northeast Asia consisting of Northeast China, Democratic People s Republic of Korea, Japan, Republic Of Korea, Mongolia and eastern Siberia of Russia.

Geographic location advantage Jilin province rich in natural resources and favourable ecological environment, especially the gold latitudes of the ice and snow,forming the best quality of ice and snow resources in Asia, created by the supply side reform, ice and snow industry is becoming emerging industry of jilin province with its competitive advantage.

Geographic location advantage with resources endowment, and appropriate landform, forming the urban belt as a line from east to west. Equipped with convenient traffic and wellconstructed infrastructure, the appropriate temperature,all of which provide with leisurely experience for outdoor ice and snow item, the cluster of the pattern of snow and ice project has been initially formed.

Rich in tourism resources Jilin province is the largest ice and snow tourist resort, with higher quality and a greater influence of ice-snow tourism, rime wonders, changbai snow, ice and snow sports tourism industry, hot spring resort and the kanto folk customs,ect.,has formed a certain scale. the unique ice and snow resources in Jilin attracted powerful domestic investors, 248 tourism projects, with total investment of 277.695 billion yuan will be constructed this year, of which 6 projects will be invested more than ten billion yuan for each, and 59 projects will be invested more than1 billion yuan respectively.

Dalian wanda group invested 20 billion yuan in comprehensive development of changbai mountain,the ski resort extended to the hotel lobby; Shenzhen wanke group spends a huge investment in songhua lake resort, integrated with Beidahu Lake ski field to compose the three leading ones covering the service of,skiing, sports, leisure, holiday functions

During 2015-2016,as the snow season, wanda Changbai mountain international resort received more than 300 thousand people while wanke songhua lake tourist resort break through 200 thousand people, ranking first and the third position in China respectively.

The rise of ice-snow tourism industry to promote tourism in jilin province from the purpose of sightseeing to complex leisureon holiday. In recent years, the full implementation of xi jinping s, general secretary of CPC, jilin provincial party committee and government give full play to the advantage of ice and snow resources, fully enhance the level of winter tourism environment and supporting services to build stronger ice-snow tourism brand.

Seize the historical opportunity for 2022 Beijing Olympics winter games, to meet consumer demand as the main line, snow and ice tourism for ontology, ice and snow sports as the basis, ice and snow culture as the leading, strengthen the agglomeration of industrial advantage, building j the ice and snow industry system with iilin characteristics, promoting the integration development of the related industries of ice and snow, building international brand of ice and snow of changbai mountain, to make jilin province into the big province of ice and snow industry in China's as well as the strong province ice and snow tourism, a world-class ice and snow tourist destination.

Development: By 2020, Preliminary set up the type of"3 + X" snow and ice all industry chain focus on" ice and snow tourism, ice and snow sports tourism, snow and ice culture", making snow and ice industry as the new strategic growth pole of economic development of Jilin province.

Ice and snow highly enriched human resources. Implementing "The project of ten million of people participating in ice and snow", the provincial school of ice and snow sports curriculum rate reached 100%, ice and snow sports knowledge, winter Olympics common sense and etiquette coverage rate reached 100%;2000 high-end ice and snow sports managers and 2000 of various kinds of ice and snow athletes have been cultivated. Jilin Province will be built into education training center, talent communication center and international communication center, creative research and development center of ice and snow industry.

The strength of Ice and snow industry enhanced obviously. to complete 1-3 world-class ski resorts, more than 60 ski fields have been built throughout Jilin Province among which 3 ski resorts equipped with 100 hectares ski track respectively as leading ones in China, set up 25 high speed aerial ropeways, Built two or three first-class skating center of Asia, set up more than 500 skating centers at various levels; realise the localization of ice and snow equipment manufacturing; Built great changbai mountain area ecological holiday of ice and snow,2 cluster area of ice and snow sports and leisure vacation across Changchun and Jilin city industrial concentration area, achieve the effects of industrial agglomeration.

Tourist economy of Ice and snow developed rapidly. Built the world-class ski resort complex in with capacity of reception of more than 1 million travelers, forming the Market rallying points, namely "play with snow, to jilin!", the revenue of Ice and snow tourism reached 230 billion yuan, with an average annual increase of 25%.

Utilizing the forms of sports lottery fund, government s purchasing services and social financing, to set up 500 sports club for teenagers, 500 schools with snow and ice movement characteristics, 100 snow and ice bases for juvenile after school and snow and ice 30 travel (winter) base.

Vigorously strengthen the supply of ice and snow sports facilities. Perform at a series of plans, such as special projects upgrade and skating center construction, Sharing and cobuilding national snow and ice sports and training base, push the progress of Beidahu sports tourist resort, wanda changbai mountain international resort, vanke songhua lake resort and etc.. In brief,by 2020, skating centers will fully coverage municipalities, prefectures of Jilin Province.

Ice and snow industry is developed in Austria, leading technology, the whole professional industry chain services of ice and snow industry for different customers in the world, with global worldclass operator, suppliers in the field of ice and snow. Austria has broad space for cooperation with Jiin Province in investment and financing, ice and snow project planning, operational management, project management and equipment of snow and ice and so on.

We sincerely welcome Austria enterprisers to visit China's Jilin, to be on the spot investigation of snow and ice field, and achieve multi-win. Wish China Austrian ice and snow industry forum complete success!

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