Sun Guangzhi, director of the Jilin Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, stated that the province attaches great importance to the development and opening up of the border, taking the construction of the G331 open tourism corridor as a new act of the revitalization of the Northeast in the new era, and promoting the new driving force of the revitalization of the border, stabilizing the border and strengthening the border.

"The corridor takes the main road of the Jilin section of G331 and the extension line as the transportation carrier, with a total length of 1,314 kilometers, connecting the Changbai Mountain area and 10 border counties, cities and regions," she said. "It is a new window for China's border to open up and exchange with the outside world, and a new demonstration of the integration of foreign tourism, agricultural tourism, business tourism and physical tourism in Northeast Asia."

"Jilin's snow and ice resources are also profound," she said. "During the snow season of 2024-25, the province received a total of 125 million domestic tourists, achieving domestic tourism revenue of 241.9 billion yuan."