Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival – China

Amazing Harbin Ice & Sculptures Festival Business

HARBIN, Heilongjiang: Harbin, China’s famed Ice City, started welcoming visitors to its International Ice and Snow Festival.

Harbin is a famous place to do business with this Ice & Sculpture Festivals during winter.

This business is focus on touristic & Art Sectors. I believe that is one of the most important business in China as ICE Wonderland Festival.

Important figures

• Target of the market : 10 to 15 millions of visitors annually
• World’s biggest ice sculpture festival: 600 000 square meters
• The tallest ice sculptures reach about 46 Meters high
• 10 000 workers cut and haul the blocks of ice

Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture is a huge business in China.

• This festival takes place each year. This Ice Festival opened on December 24, 2017
• This Ice Festival will finish around February 25, 2018.
• The festival has been held since 1963. It had been interrupted for years during the Cultural Revolution
• However this festival had been resumed by 1985.
• Along with Japan’s Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada’s Quebec City Winter Carnival, and Norway’s Ski Festival.
• The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is listed as the top 4 ice and snow festivals in the world.

So this Chinese market a huge touristic business by booking  hotels, Ice Shows and regarding the ICE FESTIVAL visits such as:

• Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo, Harbin Ice and Snow World
•  Dragon Tower, Siberian Tiger Park, Harbin Polarland,
• Harbin Volga Manor: Heilongjiang Province Museum and the Jewish sites. If you love Russian culture and art,
• Walk along the Central Street
•  Chagan Lake: Visit China’s Snow Town.

For more information

To learn more about Ice Festival in China in Harbin  (VPN needed)

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-02/20/content_23570376.htm
• https://www.icefestivalharbin.com/
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/jan/05/harbin-international-ice-and-snow-sculpture-festival-in-pictures
• https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/lifestyle/in-pictures-china-s-harbin-ice-festival-9836054