2025-12-23
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Ice Harvesting Festival,
signaling the start of a bustling winter tourism season for the northeastern city.
Wrapped in red cotton coats, dozens of ice harvesters worked in tight formation.
Their metal chisels cracking in steady rhythm until a perfect glistening slab loosened from the river's surface,
hooking it with iron poles.
They dragged it ashore,
where sunlight caught its polished edge and turned the block into a beam of silver, the ice chunks.
Typically 1.6 meters long and 0.8 meters wide are priced for their uniform density and clear texture.
They were then loaded onto trucks and transported across Harbin where they would be carved into slides.
castles, and other landmarks in the capital of Heilongjiang Province.
Over the next month, nearly 1,000 workers will carve, lift,
and haul up to 10,000 cubic meters of ice each day.
The ceremony also marks the official start of Harbin's winter tourism push.
The ice slabs will form the backbone of the Harbin Ice Snow World.
This year's addition will expand to a record 1.2 million square meters and use 400,000 cubic meters of ice and snow.
That is according to Sun Zemin,
Deputy Director of the Marketing Department at Harbin Ice Snow World Park.
company.
The park will roll out a slate of new attractions this year to draw visitors,