What is the situation of cross-border tourism between China and Russia in 2017?

“In 2017, more than 900,000 Chinese tourists came to Russia through visa-free travel, an increase of 150% compared with 2012.” During the Kazakhstan Trade Fair, at the “Happy Travel in China·Russia” " During the Sino-Russian local tourism cooperation and exchange activities, Falk, the representative of the Russian "World Without Borders" Tourism Association, said this. ?

It is understood that the number of Chinese tourists to Russia reached 1.5 million in 2017, making China Russia’s largest source of foreign tourists; at the same time, China ranks as the third most popular country for Russian tourists. In 2017, it received 2.3 million Russian tourists, an increase of 19.5% compared with 2016. Falk said: "I hope that China and Russia will better strengthen tourism exchanges and cooperation. In the future, the number of Chinese tourists visiting Russia can reach 6 million per year."?

Tacit understanding and cooperation with local tourism will develop well?< /p>

The 29th Harbin Fair will continue to build a platform for local exchanges between China and Russia, and also provide more opportunities for both sides to achieve deeper cooperation in tourism. Ambassador Sun Lijie, the Chinese government’s special representative for Shanghai Cooperation Organization affairs and the Chinese national coordinator of the SCO who attended the meeting, said: “Heilongjiang is the earliest province in China to carry out local cooperation with Russia. Playing an important role. Local cooperation has become a bright business card of China-Russia pragmatic cooperation and a solid link connecting the peoples of the two countries. In the new era, China-Russia local cooperation has great potential.”?

Heilongjiang has the most important role in China. The border tourist area with Russia is an important node in the construction of the Eastern Land and Sea Silk Road under the “One Belt, One Road” initiative. Heilongjiang borders five Russian states and regions and is the province with the longest Sino-Russian border. Since the development of border tourism in the 1980s, it has established friendly and cooperative relations with the tourism departments of adjacent Russian regions such as Amur Oblast, Primorye Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Jewish Autonomous Prefecture, and Transbaikal Krai. In recent years, Heilongjiang has also actively developed tourism cooperation with other related regions in Russia such as Chelyabinsk Oblast and Sakhalin Oblast, and extended it to the European regions of Russia. ?

At the Sino-Russian local tourism cooperation and exchange event held on the 16th, Xi Dongguang, director of the Provincial Tourism Commission, said: “After years of hard work, Heilongjiang’s tourism cooperation and exchanges with Russia have made great progress, forming a The border tourism development pattern relies on central cities such as Harbin, Mudanjiang, and Jiamusi, and uses border ports such as Heihe, Suifenhe, and Fuyuan as channels. The supply of tourism products is more abundant. Based on the needs of Russian tourists, Harbin leisure and entertainment, Wudalianchi mineral springs, and Various types of tourism products such as Daqing and Qiqihar hot spring vacations, Jingbo Lake and Xingkai Lake sightseeing vacations, and Yabuli ski vacations are constantly growing. There are 781 travel agencies in the province, including 98 outbound tour groups and border tour groups. There are 118 tour groups, and it is one of the provinces with the most border tourism operating rights in the country. Tourism transportation is more convenient, with links to Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, and Air routes to Krasnoyarsk, Moscow and other cities, and flights to Chelyabinsk are about to resume operations. Heihe is actively promoting the construction of the Heilongjiang Bridge and cross-river cableway. Suifenhe has achieved free circulation of rubles and introduced a visa-free zone for Russian inbound tourists. 'Policy."?

Highlighting the unique features of border tourism?

Liu Shijun, Secretary-General of the World Tourism Alliance, was attending the 2018 China Heilongjiang International Eco-tourism Summit held in Harbin a few days ago. Heilongjiang is one of the provinces with the richest ecological resources in the country, and it is located in the center of Northeast Asia. It can reach the Baltic Sea coast via Russia by land to the north and west; it can go to the sea via Russia's ports to the east. Its location advantage is obvious, which brings great advantages to the border. Tourism brings business opportunities. ?

Heilongjiang has 25 border ports, 13 of which carry out the Sino-Russian border tourism license business, making outbound tourism very convenient. The number of travel agencies in our province that offer visa-free group travel to Russia has just increased to 151 recently, making Heilongjiang's group outbound travel to Russia more convenient and effective. Today, Russian tourists entering through Heilongjiang Port account for half of the total number of Russian tourists in the country; other data show that in 2016 alone, 1.4594 million Chinese tourists went to Russia, and 528,400 tourists went to Russia through Heilongjiang Province. ?

In 2014, the State Council identified Harbin as the central city for Sino-Russian cooperation. Vladivostok, the city across the Suifen River, is the largest military port in the Russian Far East. Khabarovsk, opposite Fuyuan, is the largest military port in the Russian Far East. The largest city, Blagoveshchensk across the Black River, is the capital of the Amur region. Under the general pattern of the province increasing tourism to Russia, various regions have given full play to their own advantages according to local conditions and accelerated the development of characteristic border tourism. ?

With the goal of building a central city for tourism to Russia, Harbin has vigorously expanded the Russian tourist source market and held various forms of tourism promotion and publicity activities; actively developed routes to Russia and created convenient transportation conditions; developed characteristics Products and routes attract tourists from China and Russia to become each other’s tourist destinations. This summer, we also developed 10 creative ways to play, such as Russian-style exploration, and 10 high-quality tourist routes, such as Russian-style manor vacations. With Harbin as the center, we will promote Harbin to Russia as a tourist city that Russians love, and build Harbin into a tourist city for Russians. Tourist paradise.

Data show that in 2017, Harbin only organized 90,000 trips to Russia through travel agencies, and received more than 100,000 overnight Russian tourists through travel agencies. ?

Heihe and the Russian government jointly formulated the "China-Russia Twin Cities Tourism Development Master Plan" and successively developed a number of border tourism routes and border tourism projects such as health and wellness sightseeing, leisure shopping, etc. In the first quarter of this year alone, Heihe border tourism revenue was 270 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.8%. Wudalianchi received 90,000 Russian health care and elderly care personnel in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 12.5%. The Heilongjiang Bridge will be opened in 2019, and the cross-border tourism channel between the two sides will be more complete and faster. ?

Mudanjiang is an important economic and trade city for China with Russia. It is a destination and transit point for Chinese tourists going to Russia to enjoy the exotic customs, and for Russian tourists traveling to China. In 2017, Mudanjiang received 690,000 Russian tourists. The route from Mudanjiang to Vladivostok is expected to resume in July, and the Harbin-Mudan high-speed railway will be officially opened at the end of this year, making it easier for Chinese and Russian tourists to enter and exit Mudanjiang.

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