At 0:35 on December 25, with the roaring of aircraft engines, a Thai AirAsia Airbus A330 wide-body twin-aisle passenger plane landed at Harbin Taiping International Airport, which is the largest tourist charter plane ever to enter China. The flight, code XJ900, took off from Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand at 18:00 on the 24th and lasted more than 6 hours to fly directly to Harbin Taiping International Airport. The first flight was successful! The plane was full of 377 tourists from Southeast Asia, mainly from Thailand. Leaders of Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Harbin Cultural Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, Harbin Ice and Snow World Co., Ltd. and other relevant units greeted them at the airport and held a grand welcome ceremony.
He Jing, Director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Heilongjiang Province, meets the airport (Photo by Chen Mo, CNR.cn)
Airport leader and some tourists take a photo (Photo by Chen Mo, CNR.cn)
On the red carpet, a total of 5 teachers from Heilongjiang Art Vocational College played ancient Oriental music with guzheng, flute and other instruments, and played a harmonious and elegant welcome song. The Cultural and Tourism Department of Heilongjiang Province specially prepared cotton hats, cotton gloves, cotton necklaces and other cold items for tourists from tropical areas to bring warmth to tourists.
Photo of the crew and the leader of the airport pick-up (Photo by Chen Mo, CNR.cn)
Folk music performance (Photo by Chen Mo, CNR.cn)
With excited and happy expressions, more than 300 tourists of the first flight gathered in the international arrival hall of Taiping Airport, took the first "family photo" of the team, and took a cordial photo with the leaders and staff of relevant units in Heilongjiang Province who came to greet them. Comrades in charge of the Beijing office of the National Tourism Administration of Thailand also made a special trip from Beijing to see off the Heilongjiang tourists on their first flight to Bangkok at 11:45 on the 24th.
Heilongjiang tourists on their first flight to Bangkok take a group photo at the departure hall of Harbin Taiping International Airport (Photo by Chen Xianchun, CNR.cn)
Mountains and oceans, friendship walk together. The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Thailand. In recent years, the exchanges between the two peoples have reached a new height. The last ice and snow season "Erbin hot", in March last year, China and Thailand implemented a mutual visa exemption policy. He Jing, director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Heilongjiang Province, said, "The opening of charter flights will help the two-way development of Sino-Thai tourism and match highly complementary tourism resources with equally highly complementary tourism products." Heilongjiang Province has a diverse natural landscape and it is good to see that Thai tourists are beginning to discover the beauty of Heilongjiang."
Departing tourists receive gifts (Photo by CNR.cn reporter Chen Xianchun)
"Harbin has just been included in the national 240-hour transit visa-free policy, and we have welcomed tourist charter flights from Thailand." Harbin's ice and snow landscape is world-class, we warmly welcome tourists from all over the world, and we will do our best to ensure that international tourists have a happy, comfortable, satisfactory and peace of mind here." Harbin cultural tourism Bureau deputy director Zhu Zhanchun said.
The Thai crew of Flight XJ900 thanked the people of Harbin for their enthusiasm (Photo by Chen Mo, CNR.cn)
According to reports, according to the popularity of Harbin ice and snow tourism last winter, it is determined that Southeast Asian tourists will set off a hot climax in Heilongjiang Province in the next winter, in June this year, the relevant departments sent four excellent guides to Bangkok to learn Thai, and this month has just seconded a group of Thai language guides from Nanning, Guangxi, in order to allow tourists to have a convenient and comfortable, A journey as easy as home. The number of booked rooms and cars in winter has reached the highest value in history, and adequate reception plans have been made for the travel of foreign tourists into the province.
Warm three-piece set for tourists from Southeast Asia (Photo by Chen Mo, CNR.cn)
Ms. Ning Huang, Director of the Beijing Office of the National Tourism Administration of Thailand, said: "Bangkok and Harbin have always been the preferred destinations for each other's overseas travel, and in the past, tourists usually needed to transfer to other cities due to the long distance. The opening of this new route will greatly facilitate the exchange of visits between tourists from the two places, shorten the travel time and improve the travel efficiency. We hope that the opening of this direct flight will not only be a bridge connecting the two places, but also a new opportunity to promote cultural exchanges and the common development of tourism between China and Thailand. We look forward to this cooperation to further deepen the friendship between the Chinese and Thai people, promote the prosperity and development of the tourism industry of the two sides, and provide tourists of the two countries with more convenient and comfortable travel experience. In addition, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Thailand, the opening of the new route is also a great gift for the friendship between the two countries."
Representatives of the National Tourism Administration of Thailand at the scene of the airport delivery (Photo by Chen Mo, CNR.cn)
According to the reporter, after the first flight of Thailand's charter flight, there are 20 round-trip charter flights by Air Asia, in addition, charter travel agencies from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and other places have also sold products of the ice and snow season in Heilongjiang Province, the next February, the total number of wide-body charter flights will exceed 33, and new flights are still being approved. In addition to point-to-point charter flights, Harbin has also opened a number of fixed flights to Southeast Asia this winter, it is expected that the Indochina Peninsula tourists to Kazakhstan this winter will exceed 30,000 people, Heilongjiang Provincial Cultural Tourism Department in October organized to Southeast Asia to attract activities have achieved remarkable results.