"Ice" and "Fire" Double Heaven - Across the Chinese New Year's Eve visit the Harbin Ice and Snow World

Source: Xinhua Net

Xinhua News Agency, Harbin, 1 Jan (Xinhua) -- Title: "Ice" and "Fire" Double Heaven -- Cross-Chinese New Year's Eve visit harbin ice and snow world

Xinhua News Agency reporters Guan Jiantao and Qiang Yong

"Whoops"... Clusters of fireworks burst out and bloomed above the Harbin Ice and Snow World, contrasting with the glittering ice sculptures, which looked particularly gorgeous.

The cross-Chinese New Year's Eve fireworks show is a tradition of Harbin Ice and Snow World. At 20:30 on December 31, 2021, in the weather of more than minus 20 degrees Celsius, the annual fireworks show was staged at harbin ice and snow world. In the night of The Purple Yan, the cheers on the scene rose and fell, and tourists and local citizens witnessed this moment together to welcome the arrival of 2022.

"It's a beautiful sight to behold, and the annual fireworks can't be missed." Sun Peihan, a citizen of Harbin, took his child and came to the ice and snow world early.

Looking around, in this oversized ice and snow theme park, the colorful ice lights are strange and dreamy, like an ice fairy tale kingdom.

Walking in the park, patrolling security personnel always remind people to wear masks and avoid getting together. Sun Zemin, a staff member of Harbin Ice and Snow World, introduced that while opening the door to welcome guests, the Ice and Snow World strictly grasps epidemic prevention, the offline ticket purchase division is clear, the limited number of staggered peak appointments to enter the park, and the reservation code, health code and itinerary code need to be presented separately to enter the park.

With the theme of "The Light of the Winter Olympics Shines the World", the harbin ice and snow world covers an area of 820,000 square meters, a landscape construction area of 400,000 square meters, and a total of 230,000 cubic meters of ice and snow. More than 2,000 workers built and polished day and night, and built 65 groups of ice and snow landscapes, with the number of single landscapes exceeding 100.

"There are so many fun places, ice bikes, big Xiaoice slides, snow castles, snow rings, it's a bit overwhelming." Zhu Ren, a tourist from Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, slid down the 423-meter-long ice slide for a distance of 60 to 70 seconds, experiencing a "fast and furious" in the ice and snow. "Although the queue time is a bit long, in the indoor waiting hall, it is not freezing, very sweet." Zhu Ren said.

Harbin is a famous ice and snow tourism city, and the ice and snow world is a tourist business card of Harbin. This winter, the ice and snow world is full of "Olympic style". In the park, the 42-meter-high main tower "Top of the Sacred Flame" attracted many tourists to watch and take photos. The main tower is shaped like a huge Olympic torch lit, showing a rotating upward design form, symbolizing the spirit of hard work and courage.

This year's Ice and Snow World combines Harbin ice and snow culture with the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, restores the classic architectural elements of Russia, France, Switzerland, Norway, Italy and other countries that have hosted the Winter Olympics with ice and snow, tells the story of the Winter Olympics with ice and snow, and creates a Winter Olympics theme ice and snow park that integrates viewing, amusement and dissemination of Winter Olympic knowledge.

In addition to the "Olympic style", the application of some scientific and technological means also brings tourists a new experience of ice and snow. Interactive ice and snow landscapes with a sense of science and technology, such as the Century Clock, interactive ice drums, and 3D induction ice surfaces, control color changes in terms of sound and somatosensory, etc., and are favored by tourists. The Century Clock uses a sound and photovoltaic system, and when the bell is hit to pray for blessings, the icicles around it will also change.

Guo Hongwei, deputy general manager of Harbin Sun Island Group Co., Ltd., said that the Harbin Ice and Snow World, founded in 1999, was originally to let the locals relax their bodies and minds and inspire their spirits on cold days, but now it has developed into a combination of folk customs, tourism, culture, industry, etc.

This winter the ice and snow world has created thousands of jobs. Wu Shuqing is a "veteran" of ice architecture, and he organized thirty or forty people from some villages around Harbin to work in the ice and snow world to supplement their families. "Planting land in the summer and building ice scenes in the winter is much better than 'cat winter' at home." Wu Shuqing said that he can earn more than 200 yuan a day and work for more than a month, which is a lot of income for many farmers.

The Ice and Snow World is a microcosm of Harbin's practice of "ice and snow is also a golden mountain and silver mountain". Relying on the natural resource endowment advantages of the cold land in the north, Harbin has carried out a series of ice and snow tourism, ice and snow art, ice and snow fashion, ice and snow economy and trade, ice and snow sports and other activities in recent years.

At the China Ice and Snow Tourism Development Forum held in January 2021, the China Tourism Research Institute launched the "China Ice and Snow Tourism Development Report 2021", in which Harbin ranked first in the "Top Ten Cities for Ice and Snow Tourism in 2021".

Ice and snow culture has been integrated into the blood of the city of Harbin. At present, cultural tourism has become one of the pillar industries of Harbin, of which ice and snow tourism is becoming a visible and tangible wealth, and has driven the common development of economic and trade, culture, sports and other fields. (End)