(181220) -- BANGKOK, Dec. 20, 2018 (Xinhua) -- Thai Minister of Tourism and Sports Weerasak Kowsurat (9th R in the second row) welcomes He Weixin (7th R in the second row), the 10 millionth Chinese visitor who was from China's Yunnan province, in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, on Dec. 19, 2018. Thailand has announced the arrival of the 10 millionth Chinese visitor in 2018 in Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport, a milestone for the country's tourism industry. Presiding over the airport welcome ceremony, Weerasak Kowsurat, the minister of Tourism and Sports, said China is Thailand's largest tourism market with Chinese arrivals constituting one-third of the overall number of visitors to Thailand. Chinese visitors remain the biggest contributor to the country's lubricate tourism industry, with more than 520 billion baht (103 billion U.S. dollars) generated from more than 9.8 million tourists in 2017.(Xinhua/Zhang Keren)