History of China-Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival

(1985)

During the first Ice and Snow Festival, some of the original ice and snow activities such as the Ice Lantern Parade in Zhaolin Park (the 11th), the mass ice sculpture competition (the 4th), the international ice sculpture show (the 2nd), the river ice and snow sports park by ice sails, ice sledding, plough ride and winter swimming show, etc. have been improved, and in addition there are some new activities added, such as The first ice collective wedding, Harbin, Mudanjiang, Jiamusi and Kaifeng four cities of the first northern winter swimming competition, the first ice and snow games, the first ice and snow festival of scientific and technological achievements, product fairs and so on. Provincial and municipal news organizations also held a snow and ice pen, snow and ice photography contest, snow and ice prose Grand Prix.

The first Ice and Snow Festival in a month's time, received more than 2 million domestic and foreign visitors, including 24 countries and Hong Kong and Macao 12,000 tourists, an increase of 60% over the same period of the previous year, the foreign exchange earnings of tourism increased by 84.5% over the previous year.

The first Ice Festival of scientific and technological achievements, product trade fairs in more than 20 provinces and cities across the country nearly 10,000 people, more than 160 transactions, the transaction amounted to nearly 2 million yuan. More than 50 news organizations at home and abroad published more than 500 news reflecting the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival (banner). (2008)

The 24th China - Harbin International Ice Festival opened on January 5, 2008 with the theme of "Ice and Snow Olympics". As a famous city of ice and snow tourism, Harbin will participate in the Olympic Games with the magical and beautiful world of ice and snow, dedication to the Olympic Games, blessing the Olympic Games.

The 24th China - Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival will be centered on ice and snow art, ice and snow sports, ice and snow culture, ice and snow economy and trade, ice and snow tourism and other activities, which will last more than two months, and hold more than 100 activities.

The 24th Ice and Snow Festival will show the world Harbin's exquisite snow and ice art, Harbin Ice and Snow World, Sun Island Snow Expo, Harbin Ice Lanterns Tour will be among the highlights. The ninth ice and snow world main scenic area to Olympic history, culture and Beijing's representative buildings in front of the gate, Tiananmen Square, the Forum of the Century, the Olympic symbols based on ice scenes, snow sculpture to show the Olympic theme. 40-meter-high Olympic St. still maintains the world's highest record of ice architecture.

The organizing committee of the current Sun Island Snow Expo teamed up with French designers. Planning the amount of snow and ice for the largest ever, a total of 120,000 cubic meters of snow, a total of 10,000 cubic meters of ice, the most in the history of the Snow Expo. (2010)

As a popular winter tourist city Harbin ice and snow tourism the most worthwhile tourist attractions to see the 26th China Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival will be January 5, 2010 opening. Harbin Ice and Snow Tourism Festival by the National Tourism Administration, Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government and Harbin Municipal People's Government **** with the host, "Ice and snow to celebrate the world, harmony **** share" as the theme, employing the famous actor Fan Bingbing as the image ambassador, the launch of ice and snow art, ice and snow culture, ice and snow tourism, ice and snow sports and snow and ice and economic and trade and other five major plates, Hundreds of activities. Zhang Shaoliang, vice mayor of Harbin city government introduced the characteristics and image of Harbin city, as well as the characteristics and achievements of the Ice Festival, and invited tourists from the capital and domestic and foreign guests to come to the "Ice City" to enjoy the magic charm of ice and snow. Yang Jie, director of the Harbin Municipal Tourism Bureau, made a general introduction to the 26th Ice and Snow Festival and explained the main features.

Highlighting the artistry

The 11th Harbin Ice and Snow World to "Ice and Snow Architecture chapter, the joy of meeting the world" as the theme. The 22nd Sun Island Snow Expo highlights the Chinese elements, to determine the theme of "snow dance Sun Island, happy China line". The 36th Harbin Ice Lantern Art Parade and Harbin Disney Ice and Snow Parade 2010 to "Disney's story" as the theme. Into the ice and snow soul of the ice and snow concert will be full of Russian culture mood of the Volga Manor.

Highlighting the resource advantages

The conditions and facilities of the 14 s-class ski resorts around the city of Harbin have been improved. Carry out early winter warm-up skiing month, mid-winter fever skiing month, the Spring Festival gold skiing month, spring vigor skiing month and other four ski theme month activities.

Highlighting economic and trade cooperation

Ice and Snow Festival will be held on the Ice Fair, the 9th China Yabuli Entrepreneurs Annual Meeting, China Winter Sporting Goods Expo and China Winter Tourism Expo, but also for the first time with the father of the euro Robert Mundell, Harbin Mundell Economic Development Forum and other activities.

Highlighting the participatory

Ice Festival will be launched to participate in the main, new ice and snow entertainment attractions - the first Harbin Volga Ice and Snow Park, "meet 'Volga', ice and snow music Infinity" as the theme, the creation of the first Volga Winter Fun Festival and the Volga "Winter of Music" two series of activities, the development of cross-country skiing, ice and snow winter camp, ice tug-of-war, ice and snow development training and other activities. (2011)

Time: January 5, 2011 - February 17 (Lunar New Year's Day 15)

Theme: Happy Ice and Snow Passionate City

The 27th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival Overview: the entire city of Harbin into a large snow and ice scenic spot, it is understood that the current Ice and Snow Festival highlights the combination of the city's culture and snow and ice culture, will be the entire city of Harbin! The city into a large ice and snow scenic spot. In the city 23 important nodes, such as airports, railway stations, each out of the city to build a large ice and snow landscape; in the city 8 important streets and major squares to build ice and snow theme landscape, sketches; in the main streets, squares, along the river and the building arrangement of lights and lighting landscape.

Highlighting the artistry, show the world ice and snow art center city charm

January 5, tourists in the ice and snow world play. On that day, the 27th China - Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin Ice and Snow World officially opened. This year's Ice Festival to "happy snow and ice, passionate city" as the theme, lasted three months, will be offered to the citizens of the city of ice and tourists a "feast of snow and ice". As one of the three major ice and snow festival ice and snow themed scenic area, the year of the Ice World scenic area expanded to 600,000 square meters, twice the size of the original expansion. Scenic area using a large number of LED low-carbon light source, staged "ice music light show", to create a dreamlike neon world of ice and snow.

This year's Ice Festival will improve the quality of ice and snow landscape construction and activity content, showing the world ice art center city charm. The main scenic area should be a clear theme, highlighting the art of ice and snow, to create a high-quality, large volume boutique, to "see the boutique, to the scenic area", to enhance the scenic area of the ornamental, artistic and shocking.

Ice World deepen cooperation with Disney and other international brands, will be moved from the current site to the northern part of the western part of Sun Island, the area expanded from the original 200,000 square meters to 600,000 square meters. Focus on improving the artistic level of the snow and ice landscape, to create a world-class brand, new "Forest and Sea Snow Plains" large-scale snow and ice live performance, "Moulin Rouge" performance, "COOL large-scale ice style show "show.

Ice Lantern Parade to "reproduce - innovation - development" as the theme, to show the ice garden of the top ice sculpture boutique art level; snow sculpture exposition and Italian cooperation, to create the Italian style boutique park, in order to show the rich form of world-class snow sculpture art charm. Highlight the entertainment, create a joyful atmosphere of universal participation Ice Festival will highlight the entertainment, to create a joyful atmosphere of universal participation, through colorful entertainment, participatory activities, so that the general public and tourists to experience the joy of ice and snow.

Innovation of ice and snow activities, to create a platform for citizens and tourists to participate in ice and snow activities, the launch of the Songhua River Ice and Snow Happy Valley, ice and snow themed performances, ice and snow into the community, Ice and Snow Carnival, hot air balloon over the Ice and Snow Festival, cross-country skiing sports experience and other mass participation activities. All major scenic spots will also focus on the construction of recreational and participatory programs. In the Songhua River on the flood control memorial tower to the nine station section, will create 10,000 meters of Songhua River ice and snow entertainment corridor, set up a theme area and ice and snow entertainment areas, such as the start of the public and tourists free ice and snow entertainment projects, the activities from January 5, 2011 after the opening ceremony of the Ice Festival started, and has been continued until February 17th. Highlighting the internationalization, the various snow and ice activities exciting.

Ice and snow culture, held 2011 Harbin Global Ice and Snow Wedding Celebration and the 27th International Ice and Snow Group Wedding, the 4th "Ice and Snow" International Youth and Children's Variety Art Competition, the 23rd Senior Dance Hundred Flowers Competition, the 15th Book Expo, 2011 New Year's Concert, 2011 Harbin Ice and Snow The festival will include the 2011 Harbin Ice and Snow Film and Culture Festival and the Chinese Film Industry Award Celebration, as well as Chinese and foreign newspapers, TV and online media focusing on the Ice and Snow Festival.

Ice and snow sports, the organization of the International Ice Hockey Invitational Tournament, Asian Ice Hockey League, Harbin 4th International Amateur Badminton Invitational Tournament, Harbin International Winter Swimming Invitational Tournament and the 27th Ice and Snow Park Opening Ceremony, the 2011 Harbin Million Teenagers on Ice and Snow activities, the launch of the Harbin Ice and Snow activities for all the people in Harbin and the Harbin City Family Ice Fun Games, and so on.

Ice and snow economic and trade aspects, held the 27th Ice and Snow Festival economic and trade fairs, the 27th Ice and Snow Festival signing ceremony of cooperation projects, the 9th China Entrepreneurs Forum Annual Meeting, Harbin International Ice and Snow, ice and snow sports high-end forums and other activities. The twenty-ninth China Harbin International Ice Festival by the National Tourism Administration, Heilongjiang Provincial Government and Harbin Municipal Government **** with the organizers, will be opened on January 5 of the following year. The theme of this session is "full of snow and ice happy world", aimed at highlighting the great beauty of snow and ice everywhere, happy city charm infinite concept. At that time will be carried out will carry out snow and ice culture, snow and ice art, snow and ice tourism, snow and ice sports, snow and ice economic and trade five plates and more than a hundred activities, with the intention of creating a session of outstanding local characteristics, outstanding cultural taste, snow and ice charm, and at the same time very much involved in the experiential, artistic ornamental, international integration of the snow and ice carnival, winter carnival.

Opening Day:

Tens of thousands of people "Ice City Tour"

As the main event of the Ice Festival of the twenty-ninth China - Harbin International Ice Festival opening ceremony, will be on January 5, 2013 in full costume. This day Harbin will be full of songs, the districts to organize public performance activities, all skating rinks have since opened free of charge, Songhua River Ice and Snow Park and Ice and Snow Happy Valley at the same time to welcome guests, not only can you participate in the dog pulling the plow, snowmobile, ice slide, draw ice spindle and other fun activities, but also to enjoy the exciting winter swimming show.

Nightfall, "people swim ice city" activities will culminate, this time Harbin ten thousand ice lanterns bloom, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to sing, dance, twisted the Northeast rice-planting song, set off fireworks, with a grand "Ice City parade"! Warmly welcome the arrival of Chinese and foreign guests. Around 19:00 that night, Harbin Ice World officially opened. Large fireworks show will light up both sides of the Songhua River, the people enjoy the ice play snow to the climax of the excitement, but also the entire opening ceremony to the highest tide.

City streets:

To create the Ice Festival sightseeing route

During the Ice Festival, the city will be dressed up as a fairy tale world of snow and ice, forming a "city as a scenic spot, scenic spots that the city" snow atmosphere, highlighting Harbin "Ice City" features. "

City center area, will be the first time to create "Ice Festival boutique sightseeing route", the construction of 58 snow and ice landscape, decorated with 26 snow and ice landscape street, Nangang District Convention and Exhibition Center as the starting point, Songbei District Ice and Snow World as the end of the snow and ice landscape and along the way lights and architectural art combination, presenting tourists with the Songhua River across the Ice and snow landscape corridor. Walking in the streets and alleys of Harbin, citizens and tourists can see the "snow dance and song" and "flowing ice color" as the theme of the snow sculpture, ice sculpture group show, can be in the new construction to the "brave to go forward" In the newly built ice and snow experience area with the theme of "Going Forward", you can participate in ice sculpture DIY, figure skating and snowboarding. The city government is also building four free ice rinks in the four main urban areas, and will build a 10,000-meter ice and snow happy valley on the Songhua River.

Ice, snow, culture and sports: all people play ice and snow mobilization

In the sports activities section, the current ice festival is determined to hold the Harbin Taijiquan International Invitational Tournament, Harbin City, the seventh ice and snow cross-country automobile track race, Harbin City, sports dance International Invitational Tournament, international ice hockey invitational tournaments, the Asian ice hockey league, the FISU Skiing Series, the Harbin International Winter Swimming Invitational Tournament, the 2013 annual Harbin one million young people on ice and snow, Heilongjiang Snow Cup International Football Tournament and other activities.

In terms of ice and snow culture, in addition to organizing activities such as ice and snow mass wedding, film festival and cartoon exhibition, it will also organize ice and snow fifty years review essay and picture collection activities.

Ice and snow trade: the first cold exposition

Ice and Snow Festival, Harbin will be innovative to organize the first cold exposition, with the opening of the Ice and Snow Festival on the same day, will be a blend of trade and economic, tourism, history, folklore, art, sports, forums in one of the cold cultural exposition event. During the Ice Festival, the 13th Annual Meeting of China Entrepreneurs Forum will also be held, the 2013 ice and snow activities, inviting foreign ambassadors in China, representatives of international friendly cities, representatives of overseas Chinese and entrepreneurial elites to visit Harbin to exchange, cooperation.

Ice and snow tourism: travel agencies chartered flights to Harbin award million yuan

This year's Ice and Snow Festival Harbin will launch ice and snow sightseeing tours, ice and snow experience tours, skiing vacation tours, continental style tours, historical and cultural tours, the northern scenery tours and other boutique travel routes to carry out passionate and joyful, colorful and colorful ice and snow tourism activities, held Ice and Snow Carnival Harbin Beidahuang Ice and Snow Carnival, Harbin, China! The twenty-ninth international ice and snow collective wedding and the 2013 Miss Tourism World Finals in Heilongjiang final.

The conference site, the Harbin Municipal Government also issued a "Harbin City, ice and snow tourism charter or special train incentives," for a one-time charter or special train to Harbin's tourism enterprises to give one to two million dollars in incentives. At the same time, in order to promote Beijing, Tianjin and other places to Harbin ice and snow special line tourism, Harbin also signed with Beijing and Tianjin to convey the source of the agreement, in order to flourish the tourism economy of the city of Harbin.

Theme scenic spots: each with a wonderful craftsmanship

Ice World: day and night are fun

The fourteenth Harbin Ice World, "dream forest and snow plains, magical ice and snow animation" as the theme, the construction of nine scenic spots. Comprehensively upgrade the "forest and snow plains" ice and snow live performance, to provide visitors with northeastern black earth culture and ice and snow culture clever combination of visual feast; new "ice and snow animation carnival" activities and visitor animation game interactive experience project, to create a world-class ice and snow animation paradise, will be launched real-life version of the "Angry Birds "large game, innovative ice and snow Ou Xiu song and dance performances and" cool Harbin "large ice acrobatic show performances; and skiing, international combination of ice sculpture competition and other more than 30 participatory activities to meet the needs of tourists during the day excursion.

Snow Expo: six scenic spots play snow fun music

The twenty-fifth Sun Island Snow Sculpture Art Expo, "snow world - snow dream" as the theme, "a snow interpretation of the dream world of the music" as the main line, construction Dream Prelude, Time March, Life Sonata, Shengshi Round Dance, Happy Rhapsody, Romantic Serenade six scenic spots and three snow sculpture competition area. Cartoon carnival parade, snow sculpture DIY and other thematic activities, new rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, shadow puppets, the past snow sculpture boutique retrospective and other activities, through the "festive, interactive, ethnic, participation, history, brand, memories, flavor of the year," eight plates to meet the tourists.

Ice Lantern Tour: five ice sculpture competition exciting

The thirty-ninth Ice Lantern Art Tour, will be "continental ice and snow love - impression of Harbin" as the theme, build "Oriental Impression, riverside memories, the Western Shadow, across the times, ice art wonders, the love of Binjiang The eight scenic spots, including China - Harbin International Ice Sculpture Competition, including the five major ice sculpture competition, the youth art competition, children's fun Valley.

Ski vacation: Yabuli free with a professional coach

Over 40 ski resorts around Harbin to meet the needs of different levels of skiing enthusiasts. The world's largest resort chain group Mediterranean Club in Yabuli construction of the ski resort, with 18 well-designed snow track, free of charge with professional ski coaches from France, Japan, Switzerland and other countries, to take the "all-inclusive" model, to provide free airport transportation for tourists and so on.

Urban Ice and Snow:

Ice and Snow Entertainment World debut

The year during the Ice and Snow Festival, Harbin Volga Manor to "Ice and Snow Volga - continental style tour" as the theme, to carry out cross-country skiing festival, the Volga Christmas Eve, New Year's Day Carnival, Ice and Snow winter camps, and the New Year's Eve reunion, "The first Volga Volga - Love in the Ash River" and other activities.

The first Harbin Ice and Snow Entertainment World is a newly launched ice and snow experience scenic spot, located in Harbin amusement park, "Ice and Snow Amusement Park - Joy Carnival" as the theme, construction of snow, snow fortresses, snow sculptures, ice houses, ice tree hangings, ice and snow cartoon characters, to carry out the activities of drawing ice spindles, hitting the plough and so on.

The first Harbin ice car dream park is also an innovative snow and ice experience project, located in the Harbin Ice World Circuit, the main content of the winter car driving on ice, held ice car driving training camp, ice car stunt show, the first ice car driving skills tournament, the twelfth Songhua River International Ice and Snow Automobile Challenge and the seventh China and Russia car competition.

Activities No. Activity Name Activity Location 1 Mass Cultural Performances Various main urban areas 2 The 29th China? Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival opening ceremony and reception Shangri-La Hotel 3 29th China? Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival Ice City Tour Shangri-La Hotel - Songhua River Highway Bridge - Songbei Avenue - Ice and Snow World 4 The 14th Harbin Ice and Snow World Opening Ceremony and "Forest and Snow Plains" Scenic Performance Ice and Snow World 5 The First Cold Ground Expo Harbin International Conference and Exhibition Center 6 The 3rd Harbin Ice and Snow Happy Valley Behind the Flood Control Tower Songhua River 7< 25th China? Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Fair Sun Island Scenic Area 8 39th Ice Lantern Art Parade Zhaolin Park 9 29th River Ice and Snow Park opening and 12th Harbin International Winter Swimming Invitational Opening Ceremony Songhua River Winter Swimming Stadium 10 2nd Central Avenue Ice Sculpture Art and Culture Festival Daoli District Central Avenue 11 "Ice and Snow into the community, the people swim in Ice City "activities of the city's communities, scenic spots 12 2013 International Ice and Snow Covenant activities Huaqi Hotel 13 The 18th International Snow Sculpture Competition Sun Island Snow Expo 14 China? Harbin International Friendship Cities Ice Hockey Invitational Tournament Harbin Ice Hockey Hall 15 People's Tour of Ice City, Huimin big action Various scenic spots 16 Harbin Children and Youth Variety Show Harbin Children's Center 17 Wang Jiannan Arctic Photography Study Tour Reporting Exhibition Qunli Harbin Pharmaceutical Pavilion