On January 30, at the main venue of the first China Jilin Songhua River Ice Skating Marathon Challenge and the 2024 National Fitness New Year's Greeting, Ms. Wu Xiaohong, a Guinness certification officer in China, announced that the skating marathon challenge won the Guinness World Records title for the largest skating series.
It is understood that the record of this event is the "largest skating series", and the main points of the record rules are as follows - the record is based on the number of people who officially register and complete the competition, the skating series must include at least two distance races, the starting point of the competition must be the same, and the minimum requirement is 500 people.
After on-site certification, Ms. Wu Xiaohong, on behalf of Guinness World Records, announced that the number of valid participants in the largest skating series is 808, and she has won the title of Guinness World Records for the largest skating series.
Launched the winter tourism brand of Songhua River in Jilin Province.
In just 11 days, Jingyu County, Baishan City, Jilin Province successfully challenged the Guinness World Records title twice. On January 20, at the site of the "Snow Valley Market on the Songhua River" cultural tourism project in the Songhua River Ecological Tourism Scenic Area in Jingyu County, 1,946 challengers successfully broke the original Guinness World Record of 1,000 people "playing the top at the same time".
My home is in the northeast, on the Songhua River. The song sings the praises of the Songhua River, which is one of the seven major rivers in China.
1. The largest tributary of the Heilongjiang River in China. This year's Songhua River Ice Skating Marathon takes the ice skating marathon as the main body, and simultaneously carries out 10 ice and snow sports events and 10 ice and snow experience activities to create a carnival of winter ice and snow events in Songhua River.
The 10 ice and snow sports events include the Ice and Snow Marathon Challenge, the Snow Bike Half Marathon Challenge, the Ice Dragon Boat Super League, the Cross-Country Skiing Exhibition Race, the Snowmobile Exhibition Race, the 100-meter Ice Plow Race, the Snow Wave Ball Competition, the Ice Monkey Pumping Exhibition Competition, the Snow Soccer Competition, and the Ice and Snow Yangge Competition.
The 10 ice and snow experience carnival activities include 10 activities, including Songhua River Yimeng Island Ice Lake Camping, Songhua River "Ice River Crossing" Challenge, Ice Red Research, Songhua River Ice and Snow Bowling, Songhua River Ice and Snow "Snow Battle", Fitness Dance Competition, Chinese Sports Reporter Changbai Mountain Ice and Snow Tour, Internet Expert Jing Yu Tour, Songhua River Snow Festival, Songhua River New Year Culture Festival, Songhua River Folk Food Festival, etc.
Jingyu County took the event as the starting point, focused on the Changbai snow brand, and planned and designed a popular cultural tourism product with distinctive Songhua River characteristics - "Songhua River Snow Valley Market" New Year project activities, the project is divided into 6 parts of immersive experience content, including Mubang Tribe, cute pet Happy Valley, Snow Valley iron pot stew, Ice and Snow Happy Valley, Fish Leaping Longmen Snow Park, and Sweet Snowman Valley.
By promoting winter cultural tourism consumption, we will continue to extend the five-color tourism chain of "red, green, gold, silver and blue", continuously enrich the cultural tourism format of "watching, eating, playing, shopping and traveling", launch the winter tourism brand of Songhuajiang in Jilin Province, and create a new growth pole for tourism in the province.
Culture empowers the development of Jilin's ice and snow industry.
The development of Jilin's ice and snow industry can be traced back to the Qing Dynasty. The Manchus, who rose between the white mountains and the black waters, gradually unified the vast territory of northeastern China in the early 17th century. The area where they are located has a long ice and snow period, and it is difficult for people to leave ice activities in their production and life, and almost every Manchu has more or less experience of ice activities.
During the Qing Dynasty, ice frolic, which is known today as ice skating, was elevated to the level of national activities, and even had a unique strategic position, especially during the reign of Emperor Qianlong, Qianlong held an ice frolic celebration every year as an important activity stipulated by the state. Since then, the Qing Dynasty has continued to attach great importance to ice play, so that ice play sports have a place in China and even the world.
In recent years, Jilin ice and snow has sprung up and become an important part of the development of the national ice and snow industry. Especially in the Changbai Mountain area, the development of the ice and snow industry is particularly rapid.
As the "source of the three rivers in Northeast China" that gave birth to the Songhua River, the Yalu River and the Tumen River, the Changbai Mountains, together with the European Alps and the North American Rocky Mountains, are the "world's three major powder snow bases", enjoying world-class ice and snow resources. The climatic resource advantage of "silky powder snow + warm and quiet wind" is also unique from a global perspective. On this basis, Jilin Province has vigorously developed the ice and snow economy, especially ice and snow tourism. The "Jilin Province Tourism Trillion-level Industry Action Plan (2023-2025)" clearly states that it will strive to achieve the goal of tourism trillion-level industry within 5 years, and half of this goal will be "ice and snow".
According to the data, Jilin Province has 75 ski resorts, with a total area of more than 1,200 hectares and a total length of 350 kilometers.
Ice and snow activities attract visitors to "auspicious New Year".
In 2024, the Jilin Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism will launch the Spring Festival-themed cultural and tourism activities of "Happy New Year", which includes 8 sections, covering cultural and artistic performances for the benefit of the people, public service activities, intangible cultural heritage experience display, tourism and leisure consumption, ice and snow tourism and other fields.
The "auspicious New Year, auspicious wishes" series of leisure tourism activities will create 73 high-quality ice and snow tourism products, and prepare for a happy ice and snow tourism feast for the New Year. At the same time, it has launched 69 routes of 9 major types, such as "snow in the long day", "auspicious New Year's auspiciousness", and "Jixing snow playing-skiing", 10 travel routes suitable for different travel modes and different groups of people, and 33 1-day, 2-day, and 3-day tour routes have been launched to provide guidance and guidance for the majority of tourists.
Ice and Snow Jilin Helping Tourism and Benefiting the People" series of consumption promotion activities will hold more than 160 cultural and tourism festivals and events such as the 2nd Tianding Mountain Annual Customs Cultural Festival, Jilin New Year ** Meeting, and Changbai Mountain 2023-2024 Snowboarding, fully creating a strong festival atmosphere and activating the cultural tourism market in the province. Focusing on the theme of "auspicious New Year, auspicious wishes", 27 policies and measures such as ice and snow cultural tourism consumption vouchers, travel agency awards and subsidies, and scenic spot ticket discounts have been launched.
Text: Yang Bo. Edited by Zhang Yingchuan.