『Ice and Snow Tours』

Ice-And -Snow Tours

With long winters, Heilongjiang province is a major winter sports and sightseeing center in china. Ice sculptures, snow carvings and snow scenes attract large numbers of visitors to Harbin, Yabuli, Yuquan, the Jingpo lake and Taoshan mountain, where facilities are also available for such activities as winter swimming, ice surfing, sledging, skating and skiing.

Harbin int’l ice-and-snow festival
Time: January / February
Venue: Harbin
Program: ice lantern show, snow sculpture display, international ice and snow sculpture competitions, Winter swimming, ice hockey, speed-skating, alpine skiing, ice-and-snow motion picture festival, Ffolklore singing and dancing and weddings-on-the-ice

Scenic SongHua River

A scenic belt extends along the northern shore of the Songhua river in downtown Harbin, with the majestic monument to the anti-flood battle in the center. The river is beautified by swaying weeping willows and clusters of flowers on its shores, and by white sails prying its waves. A 5-km-long riverside park lies on the southern bank, while sun island scenic zone is on the northern bank. winter turns the river into a crystal-clear chain, and the entire scenic belts into a paradise of ice and snow. Zhaolin park is the venue of an annual ice lantern show and an international ice sculpture competion.

YaBuLi Skiing Ground

Yabuli skiing ground, 195 km to the southeast of harbin, is one of the largest skiing grounds in china, also was the venue for the skiing events of the 1996 asian winter games. It features a 3.080-meter-long alpine skiing lane with an average drop of 884 meters and an average gradient of 22.6 degrees. There are also facilities for ski jumping and cross-country skiing.

Sun Island

located on the northern shore of songhua river in downtown harbin, the sun island is a 38-square –km land and covered with sand dunes. In summer it is a well-known holidaymaking resort, while in winter it puts on a magnificent look. The island is the site of an international snow carving competition, which takes place ever January.

Germ War Site Open To The Public

The world largest germ warfare experimental base, which as built by Japanese troops in China during world war II, open to the public in june 2001 after a year of clean up and development. The cleaning of the site if unit 731 of japan’s kwantung army in northeast china’s Heilongjiang province got started in August 2000 and more than 100 households and about 10 factories were moved away from the site. The project cost nearly 100 million rmb. some Japanese non-governmental organizations and civilians have made donations in support of the project. chinese researchers found more than 1,200 items, which are strong evidence of japanese war crimes, including syringes, high-pressure boilers used to destroy germs and remains of germ bombs. unit 731 was part of Japan Kwantung army with its notorious for its manufacturing of materials for germ warfare. The Kwantung army headquarters burned and buried its records of unit 731 in an attempt to get rid of the evidence just before japan surrendered on august 15, 1945. But according to historical records that survive, unit 731 experimented on more than 10,000 prisoners of war and civilians from China, the Korean peninsula and other countries.