On February 1, local time, the China Central Radio and Television Station’s Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala promotional video was played on dozens of large screens at Siem Reap Angkor International Airport in Cambodia. This was the first time that the CCTV Spring Festival Gala promotional video was shown at the airport. The " Descendants of the Dragon Send Blessings in the Year of the Dragon" flash mob event was also held in the departure hall of Siem Reap Angkor International Airport. The CCTV Spring Festival Gala promotional videos, pop-up activities, and the festive-filled Spring Festival Gala cultural and creative product displays and Chinese-style lion dance performances attracted hundreds of foreign tourists to stop and watch and participate.
△The main station Spring Festival Gala promotional video landed on the big screen in the VIP room of Siem Reap Angkor International Airport
△"The descendants of the dragon send blessings in the Year of the Dragon" pop-up event
△The main station Spring Festival Gala cultural and creative product display
△Live lion dance event
Cambodian royal family Member Princess Norodom Zhenna, as a special guest of the main station, showed and promoted the cultural and creative products of the main station Spring Festival Gala to passengers and explained the Spring Festival culture to them. Princess Jenna said that the Spring Festival is the most important festival in China, and the dragon is the totem of Chinese culture. She is very happy to introduce the Spring Festival Gala to the Cambodian people. The construction of Siem Reap's new airport has changed the lives of local people. Through this kind of activity, people can also better understand Chinese culture.
△Princess Jenna was interviewed by a reporter from the main station
△Princess Jenna introduced the cultural and creative products of the Spring Festival Gala of the main station on the spot
Hundreds of airport passengers stopped to watch at the Spring Festival Gala booth of the main station and took photos with the cultural and creative products of the Spring Festival Gala of the main station. After watching the promotional video, local Cambodian people and airport staff also became very interested in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and asked where they could watch it. A Cambodian tourist said that China in the promotional video was very beautiful and he wanted to go to China himself and watch the Spring Festival Gala live.
△Passengers and staff watch the Spring Festival Gala cultural and creative product display
△Princess Jenna introduces the Spring Festival Gala cultural and creative products to passengers
△Princess Jenna presents the Spring Festival Gala cultural and creative products to passengers
△Reporters from the main station and Jenna The princess presented the cultural and creative products of the Spring Festival Gala to the guests of the airport operator.
Lin Litu, President of the China-Cambodia “Belt and Road” Development Promotion Association of the Ministry of Interior of Cambodia, said: This event is very impressive. Many people in Cambodia, including me, are I am very interested in Chinese culture and have seen it on social media, but it feels very different to be able to witness it myself. This is a good start for the 2024 "China-Cambodia Year of People-to-People Exchanges".
Main station reporters and Princess Jenna presented the main station Spring Festival Gala cultural and creative products to the guests of the airport operator.
Siem Reap Angkor International Airport was officially opened to flights on October 16, 2023. It is the first overseas airport invested by a Chinese-funded enterprise. Construction and operation model implementation of the international airport. The Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia said that the airport will become a link connecting international air routes, bring more international passengers and investors, and further promote Cambodia’s economic and social development. Local people are also full of expectations for the new airport to help tourism development.
△ Siem Reap Angkor International Airport exterior view
(Headquarters reporter Fu Xinri Liu Yang) (CCTV News Client)