■Unique Tourism

After these years’ development and construction, there are more than 300 tourist spot in Jilin Province. And form a new travel system which including Changbai Mountains Nature Reserve, Jingyue Pool National Forest Park, Jilin Songhua Lake National Scenic Resort, Bei Da Lake Skiing Field. Moreover, The Xianghai Nature Reserve of Tongyu in the west area has been placed on the catalogue in the world most important wetlands. The tourist product has developed into multi-categories, multi-class, from simple visiting travel to a new pattern, which including visiting tour, holiday tour, ethnic folk tour and folk-custom tour, etc. And as representatives, the ecological tour, such as the Ice-snow tour, Forests Park tour, Wetland tour and Border tour have been a new attraction to the tourists.

In the new period, the tourism has been a significant growing point in Jilin’s economic development. Jilin province received 448,800 tourists from overseas, up 20.2% over the previous year. Of all tourists, 80500 were Chinese compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, up 21.2 percent; 368300 were foreigners, up 20.1 percent. Income of foreign exchange from tourism reached 144 million US dollars, up 20.7 percent. Jilin province received 31927500 Domestic tourists, up 12.0%, the income was 26.4 billion, up 20.4%.

In the new century, in order to establish an ecological tours model region, and foster a new increasing point of tour economy, achieve the improvement of the total tours economy amounts and integrated benefits, Jilin Province will give prominence to region advantages, and focus on the redevelopment of feature tour, ecological tour and special-type tour.(The Information Office of the People’s Government of Jilin Province)