[Explanation] On November 18th, many large-scale ski resorts in Jilin Province, an important city in China's ice and snow tourism, announced the "opening of the board" to welcome Chinese and foreign skiers to enjoy the new snow season with a strong atmosphere of the Winter Olympics.
Jilin Province is located in the "Golden Latitude Belt of Ice and Snow" with the Alps and Rocky Mountains, and is one of the world's three largest powder snow bases.
In recent years, the local area has continued to strengthen its "platinum economy" and its influence has increased day by day.
Data show that Jilin Province has built 46 ski resorts, with a total of 347 ski trails and a total area of 1032 hectares, ranking first in China.
On the same day, Jilin Vanke Songhua Lake Ski Resort, with 37 ski trails, was very popular. Ski enthusiasts from Zhejiang, Hunan, Liaoning and other places couldn't wait to enjoy the new snow season.
The reporter noticed that as the Beijing Winter Olympics is approaching, large ski resorts in Jilin Province have opened or widened more difficult ski trails to meet the needs of ski enthusiasts.
[Concurrent] Huang Zhongrui, Marketing Manager of Vanke Songhua Lake Ski Resort
We have upgraded our full-line snowmaking system and added 40 snowmaking machines. The improvement of the snowmaking system directly brings benefits to snow lovers. At the beginning of the boarding period, we opened more ski trails and a larger area. Will be more interesting.
At the same time, this year's snow season we will launch an "ALL BLACK" all-underground area. The all-underground area is also a place where masters like to ski.
[Explanation] Huang Zhongrui said that at the request of ski enthusiasts, a number of competitions and related tourism festivals will be held this year.
[Concurrent] Huang Zhongrui, Marketing Manager of Vanke Songhua Lake Ski Resort
Starting from today, our opening month activities are officially kicked off, which lasts for nearly half a month.
This year we started board activities like snow friends from national clubs (participating). This board is held every week and lasts until mid-December.
[Explanation] The reporter also learned during the interview that the prevention and control of the epidemic is also the top priority of the reception work in this new snow season.
Relevant ski resorts have introduced a series of measures in terms of appointments, code scanning, temperature measurement, ski disinfection, and landing detection.
Reporter Lu Shengnan Shi Hongyu reports from Jilin City
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]