MALDIVES-MALE-CHINESE-BUILT AIRPORT

MALDIVES-MALE-CHINESE-BUILT AIRPORT

(240504) -- MALE, May 4, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 28, 2024 shows the seaplane docking facility at Velana International Airport in Male, the Maldives. TO GO WITH "Feature: Chinese-built airport project helps Maldives tourism take off" (Xinhua/Wu Yue)

MALDIVES-MALE-CHINESE-BUILT AIRPORT

MALDIVES-MALE-CHINESE-BUILT AIRPORT

(240504) -- MALE, May 4, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese employee of the Beijing Urban Construction Group (BUCG) and a foreign employee operate during the final decoration for the second phase of the VIP terminal of the Velana International Airport in Male, the Maldives, April 28, 2024. TO GO WITH "Feature: Chinese-built airport project helps Maldives tourism take off" (Xinhua/Chen Dongshu)

MALDIVES-MALE-CHINESE-BUILT AIRPORT

MALDIVES-MALE-CHINESE-BUILT AIRPORT

(240504) -- MALE, May 4, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 28, 2024 shows the seaplane terminal at Velana International Airport in Male, the Maldives. TO GO WITH "Feature: Chinese-built airport project helps Maldives tourism take off" (Xinhua/Wu Yue)

Maldives welcomes Chinese flight, tourists with water cannon salute

STORY: Maldives welcomes Chinese flight, tourists with water cannon salute DATELINE: Jan. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:54 LOCATION: Male CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the passenger plane arriving at the Velana International Airport 2. various of Chinese tourists welcomed at the airport STORYLINE: The Maldives welcomed the first direct flight from China with a water cannon salute on Wednesday following the latter's recent optimization of COVID-19 strategy. The Capital Airlines' flight with over 190 Chinese tourists aboard was received by Chinese Ambassador to the Maldives Wang Lixin, Tourism Minister of the Maldives Abdulla Mausoom and other officials at the Velana International Airport. Mausoom told Xinhua at the welcoming ceremony that the Maldives earlier forecast 1.8 million tourists for this year, and at least 10 percent increase is expected from the original forecast as Chinese tourists who had contributed a lot to the tourism market of the Maldives, are arriving again. China had remained

MALDIVES-MALE-CHINESE FLIGHT-TOURISTS-WATER CANNON SALUTE

MALDIVES-MALE-CHINESE FLIGHT-TOURISTS-WATER CANNON SALUTE

(230119) -- MALE, Jan. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- China's Capital Airlines' flight JD455 is welcomed with a water cannon salute at the Velana International Airport in Male, Maldives, Jan. 18, 2023. TO GO WITH "Maldives welcomes Chinese flight, tourists with water cannon salute" (Xinhua/Che Hongliang)