| The Harbin International Ice & Snow Festival has | | | | example, fantastic fireworks display (on opening |
| been celebrated annually since 1985, which officially | | | | night), winter swimming, ice hockey games, football |
| starts January 5 and lasts one month. As the largest | | | | games on the snow ground, skiing races, speed |
| and most extraordinary of its kind in the world, this | | | | skating races, ice sculpture competition, poetry |
| great festival is held to coincide with the Harbin Ice | | | | jamboree, wedding ceremony and ice & snow |
| and Snow World Exhibition of Ice Sculptures held in | | | | cinematics festival. All these events have yearly |
| the Stalin Park, the Snow Sculptures Fair in the Sun | | | | attracted numerous snow enthusiasts from around |
| Island and the Ice Lanterns Fair held in Zhaolin Park | | | | the world to visit Harbin. |
| (in central Harbin next to the Songhua River). | | | | Nowadays, this festival has been reputed to be the |
| During the festival, many events are held, for | | | | world-class ice and snow Disneyland. |