Entering the gate of Changchun World Sculpture Park, the 19-meter-high "ice pier" and "snow rongrong" large-scale snow sculpture stand in front of you, which is particularly eye-catching. As the birthplace of the design image of "Snow Rongrong", Changchun City took advantage of the Winter Olympics to reconstruct the "Ice and Snow Territory".
From the ski resorts that surround the city, to more than 100 ice rinks on campus and in parks, from the unique ice and snow parks to the ice sculptures and snow scenes that can be seen everywhere in the city... Ice and snow have brought joy and vitality to Changchun City, becoming a new business card of the city and a new growth point for transformation and development. Ice and snow are transformed into golden mountains and silver mountains, and the old industrial base is being transformed into an "ice and snow city".
Snow sculptures in Changchun Park on January 10. Xinhua News Agency
Ice and snow have brought about changes in the transformation of Changchun's industry
At 5 p.m. on January 25, the lanterns in more than 100 ice sculptures scattered in changchun ice and snow new world were lit one by one. Tourists can't bear the cold of minus ten degrees Celsius, they take off their gloves and take out their mobile phones to record the beauty of this crystal clear ice and snow world lights up, and their frozen red faces have a surprise smile.
This large-scale ice and snow park covering an area of 1.56 million square meters brings together characteristic ice and snow buildings and various entertainment projects, creating a 500-meter-long ice slide and a 46-meter-high Winter Olympics-themed ice tower, which is a new "net red" punch card in the northeast region in recent years.
"Around New Year's Day, more than 10,000 people enter the park every day." Wang Wenyu, deputy general manager of Tiandingshan Tourist Resort Town, said that there are 160 ice and snow sculptures in the park this year, adding a lot of Winter Olympic theme content.
Changchun has four distinct seasons, with a snow accumulation period of nearly half a year, which has the inherent advantage of developing the ice and snow economy. In recent years, Changchun has fully implemented the high-quality development strategy of "one main and six doubles" in Jilin Province, and sought to accelerate the development of the cultural tourism industry and the ice and snow industry under the background of normalizing the prevention and control of the epidemic.
Changchun has built four major ski resorts, six ice and snow hot springs, and ten ice and snow parks throughout the city, and the ice and snow heat has continued to rise. More and more private enterprises and private capital are optimistic about the development opportunities of the ice and snow industry, and promote the transformation of the old industrial base from "heavy" to "light".
In changchun automobile economic and technological development zone, the Changchun automobile ice and snow carnival designed and built by Zhongqing Construction Co., Ltd. attracted many citizens. "The park is free to open, but about 11 days after opening, it has already driven more than 1.5 million yuan of commercial and secondary sales revenue in the region." Li Shuangyu, marketing director of Zhongqing Cultural Tourism, said that the average daily passenger flow since the opening of the park has exceeded 20,000 people.
At present, Changchun has reached more than 40 ice and snow products, more than 200 ice and snow tourism activities, and the ice and snow economy has grown rapidly. According to the data, during the Spring Festival in 2021, Changchun received a total of 3.5566 million tourists, an increase of 183.01% year-on-year.
A colorful ice sculpture of "Autobot" Optimus Prime photographed in Changchun International Automobile Park on January 25. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Boyu
Ice and snow set off a national fitness boom in Changchun
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is about to kick off, and 12 athletes trained by Changchun will represent the country and compete for medals in multiple events. Behind the outstanding athletes is the continuous accumulation of urban ice and snow sports.
Changchun Tiandingshan Ski Resort has 18 beginner and intermediate ski slopes, and the children on the snow slopes are full of laughter and laughter. Under the call to "drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports", the Changchun Municipal Education Bureau funded the purchase of transportation, ski equipment, insurance and ski instructor services provided by the ski resort, and provided free ski lessons for the city's sixth-grade primary school students.
"When we were young, we could only find the ice surface by ourselves to 'skate', and now the opportunity for children to systematically learn ice and snow sports is within reach." Liu Yuqi, a citizen of Changchun who insists on sending his children to skiing lessons, said.
With the help of the East Wind of the Winter Olympics, relying on Jingyuetan, Lotus Mountain, Miaoxiang Mountain, And TiandingShan Ski Resort, Changchun has successively held "ice and snow + sports" events such as the National College Students Cross-country Skiing Competition. Driven by professional events and large-scale activities, the enthusiasm of citizens for ice and snow has also been stimulated.
On weekdays, you can't go to the large ice and snow park and ski resort, and you have to play in the ice and snow "small world" under your own house. There are more than a hundred parks in Changchun, and many of them have waters in them. After the winter, the water surface freezes, and it is divided into different areas to carry out ice and snow recreation activities.
In Nanxi Wetland Park, snow circle surfing, snow bumper cars, snow karts, and snow drift attract a large number of citizens. On weekends, everyone puts on cotton clothes, puts on gloves, and spends dozens of yuan in the park to spend a whole day of happy ice and snow time.
Ice and snow reshape the cultural heritage of Changchun City
The "astronauts" dressed in "spacesuits" wear helmets and walk slowly on the snow step by step. This is not a scene of a science fiction movie, but a "punch card" photo staged in the Changchun World Sculpture Park every day. The "net red" here is a giant earth-shaped snow sculpture and a holographic projection of themes such as aerospace and the Winter Olympics.
Changchun is a city of sculpture. The Changchun World Sculpture Park, which brings together more than 10,000 sculptures and works of art from 216 countries and regions, carries out ice and snow theme activities every year. In addition to the new ice sculptures and snow sculptures, the artists also use ice and snow to create secondary works on fixed exhibitions in the park. The goddess has snow wings, the pigeons have snow pigeon companions, and the old landscape has gained artistic vitality.
In the collision and integration of "ice and snow + culture", Changchun not only has "professional" activities such as the National College Students Snow Sculpture Competition. This year, Changchun newly built 134 groups of ice sculptures and snow sculptures on urban streets, strolling around the streets, you will find exquisite ice and snow sculptures standing on the street corners of the road, showing the city's ubiquitous "ice and snow genes".
The mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games, "Snow Rongrong", was "born" in Changchun. "'Snow' represents whiteness and beauty, 'tolerance' is inclusion, and 'melting' is also integration." Because the lantern will glow, it can make the people of the world feel warm. Jiang Yufan, creator of the first draft of "Xue Rongrong" and a student of the Design College of Jilin Art College, said.
In the building where the School of Design of Jilin Art Institute is located, the "Snow Rongrong" sculpture is particularly eye-catching; in changchun international automobile park, the 12-meter-high colored ice sculpture "Automan" Optimus Prime is majestically stationed, and 5 new ice sculpture cars have been added next to the original car sculpture; in Changchun Ice and Snow Xintiandi, the 600-meter-long snow sculpture of party history theme tells history, and the huge film ice sculpture is high and red "flame", showing the red temperament of Changchun as the cradle of new Chinese cinema...
Automobile City, Sculpture City, Film City - ice and snow blessing, the old industrial base Changchun's "business card" has also been polished more brightly.
Source: Xinhua News Agency