Tuesday 9 January 2018

World’s largest ice festival celebrated in China

World’s largest ice festival celebrated in China

The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival   is an annual winter festival that takes place with a theme in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China,

it is the largest ice and snow festival in the world.

At first participants in the festival were mainly Chinese, however it has since become an international festival and competition.

The festival includes the world's biggest ice sculptures

Officially, the festival starts on January 5 and lasts one month.

The annual event, held in the capital of Heilongjiang Province, is now in its 33rd year.

The festival is made up of several themed zones.

The main attraction is the Harbin Ice and Snow World, which covers more than 750,000 square meters and features up to 180,000 cubic meters of ice.

 The ice park is spread across 197-acre land. More than 10000 workers were engaged in building the ice sculptures.

In 2017, the ice festival had eighteen million visitors despite -30 degrees temperature. It fetched 28.7 billion yuan tourism revenue for Harbin.

Harbin is located in Northeast China and receives cold winter wind from Siberia.

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