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HOW TO BUILD THE INTERNATIONAL ICE AND SNOW FESTIVAL

Harbin Local

Tour Guide, Harbin, China

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Winter ,ice and snow, cold is unique feature in Harbin. So that, Harbin’s people make the 5th of January as “ice and snow festival “ every year. On that day , grand opening ceremony will be held in ice and snow world .

Ma Diel group start and hold “ice and snow world” until today have already the 15th every year has different theme, the area from 20,000 square meters to 600,000 square meters to expand, then the biggest one in the history.

Who has seem ice and snow world , all shocked by its huge building by people , the dream fairy tale world in ice and snow with colorful lights , I do not know you know or not, the huge building only build in the 20 days , according to the weather reason , the worker need to finish as soon as possible , for open and show to the visitors, from get ice and ice building , light layout , only half month , the top one ice and snow world have to show the world , we have to say this is a miracle.

I remember one time , I and journalist together to go to ice and snow world, pick up the ice and ice building place exploration, although I have seen every years ice and snow world developing and glorious, but this time it is first time to visit the behind the curtain. Pick up ices from Songhua river , the workers get up on the morning at 4:00 am , work until 18:00pm , they catch up the time, also the workers from construction site  they work from 6:00am to 6:00pm , and some ice and snow art experts are busy for sculpture day and night . these workers from nearby countryside , harbin winter can keep them busy  and earn some money for spring festival , they do ice and snow festival work for around more than 10 years, so Their technology is quite skilled, so we can tell the ice and snow world offer more chance to everyone and more happiness.

When you arrive at ice and snow construction site, if nobody tell you what it is, you might think it is real estate development, and that the scale of the atmosphere can be described with a full swing .

Last year’s ice-mining project on 8th December and officially launched, the try to open is on 25th , so only half month we have to build 600,000 square meters, reaching 180,000 cubic meters of ice volume, creating the dream of ice and snow world heaven, what is concept about this huge project , only when you in the site you can feel, and the most amazing things is the huge beautiful buildings can only stay there for 3 months, after 3 months will disappear from this piece of land , whatever how wonderful it is with brilliant. So it is the most unique in the history of building , we learned that the ice and snow world only the door , need 500 employees to build it , so the whole ice and snow world need nearly 100,000 people .

 

I believe , every year is different surprise from ice and snow world , when a fantastic , fun , dream picturesque ice and snow world present in front of you, you will come from long way road with cold weather, it is absolutely worth .