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BEIJING, Jan. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Harbin Ice and Snow World, a theme park located in Heilongjiang Province, north

China and characterized by Winter Olympics style of scenes in this winter, is

serving as a miniature of Harbin, the provincial capital, vigorously boosting

ice economy for green development.

The city, which developed a series of ice and snow-themed activities such as

tourism, art, fashion, economy and trade, and sports, has integrated ice and

snow culture into its city economy.

Apart from ranking the first among China's top 10 ice and snow tourism cities

for 2021, Harbin has turned ice and snow tourism into a visible driver of local

economy, bringing up the city's economy, trade, culture and sports sectors.

For instance, Harbin Ice and Snow World, founded in 1999 initially as a place

of casual entertainment for local residents in the cold winter, has grown into

a popular tourist attraction integrating folk customs, tourism, culture, and

related industries nowadays.

This winter, the Winter Olympics-themed park created several thousand of

seasonable jobs for local people. After summer planting, making ice sculptures

in winter created handsome seasonable incomes for local farmers.

Covering an area of 820,000 square meters, Harbin Ice and Snow World possesses

400,000 square meters of areas for ice and snow landscape, which used 230,000

cubic meters of ice and snow in total and contains 65 clusters of ice and snow

sceneries and over 100 of standalone sceneries.

"There are too many choices for fun, such as the bicycling on the ice, ice

slide, ice castle, and ski ring," said a tourist to the theme park,

highlighting that it took merely 60-70 seconds to slide down from the top of

the 423-meter long ice slide and tourists can wait in the waiting room to keep

warm.

Being a name card of Harbin city, the park recreated the classic architecture

elements of Winter Olympic Games host countries including Russia, France,

Switzerland, Norway and Italy with ice sculptures this year to retell Winter

Olympic stories.

Original link: https://en.imsilkroad.com/p/325749.html

Source: Xinhua Silk Road

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   Caption: Photo shows the annual firework show in Harbin Ice and Snow World on New Year's

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   Caption: Photo shows "Top of the fire", an Olympic torch-shaped 42-meter high ice tower

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   Caption: Photo shows night view of Harbin Ice and Snow World on New Year's eve.