Photos | Indulging winter magic in Harbin, northeast China

On Dec. 21, the twenty-sixth Harbin Ice-Snow World in Heilongjiang, northeast China officially opened, with an overall area of 1 million square meters of the park, a total of 300,000 cubic meters of ice and snow.

The current Harbin Ice-Snow World design and construction fully integrated into the Asian Winter Games Harbin 2025 elements, to create a more imposing, beautiful ice and snow theme park.

In the ice and snow projects, the park's popular amusement project "super ice slide" this year has been upgraded, not only the slide increased to 24, but also in the queue at the temporary construction of more than 300 meters long windproof warming shed, so that tourists in the queue can be a little warmer, have a better play experience.

Dec. 23, Sun Island (Tai Yang Dao) opened, 150 square meters of the park within more than 260 snow sculpture works. In the winter solstice, the north of China has the custom of eating dumplings, the scenic area with snow sculpture presents a white fat dumplings, this snow sculpture is in the 3 meters x 3 meters x 2 meters cube for carving.

In addition to the lovely "snow dumplings", Sun Island also has the "White Wukong" carved out of snow.

In addition, there are naive and different shapes of snow sculptures of matryoshka dolls.

Sun Island and Harbin Ice and Harbin Ice-Snow World can also be reached by free subway.

Harbin in winter, of course, there is no shortage of a big red snowman. The big snowman chief designer Li Qiushi said, that this year there are about 50 people involved in the construction of the big snowman, with no special weather effects, the big snowman is expected to be able to save about 60 days.

In order to meet tourists from all over the country, Harbin Central Street has also upgraded services. Harbin Central Street set up a total of 20 ice sculpture snow scenes, tree branches are also filled with lights.

At the moment, Central Street launched a series of warm services, many merchants along the street put up the sign of the warm hut, for the public visitors to provide temporary rest, ginger tea and hot water, luggage storage and other services. Central Street underground passage carpet is thicker, and both sides of the staircase handrails are also wrapped in red velvet.

Free Wi-Fi coverage has been achieved on Central Street, and the newly-opened International tourist distribution center also provides volunteer services, foreign currency exchange, and travel advisory services.

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