Special Supplement: A hot tourism destination

Heilongjiang has rich tourism resources, with ice and snow, forest and boundary tours being the biggest attractions.

In Heilongjiang, ice lantern, snow sculpting and winter skiing are unforgettable experiences for tourists.

With wide forests and abundant lakes, the summer climate is cool, making the province an ideal summer tourist destination.

Sightseeing adventures in the forests, canoeing, fishing and bathing in its many hot spring resorts are the most popular summer activities.

Sharing its borders with Russia, visitors to Heilongjiang also have the opportunity to venture into the vast Russian countryside.

Large forests, grasslands, wetlands, lakes, grand ice & snow events and the large boundary rivers in Heilongjiang are famous at home and abroad.

In winter, visitors can tour such scenic spots as the "Ice & Snow World" in Harbin, as well as the Yabuli Skiing Resort, the largest of its kind in Asia.

In summer, tourists can visit Jingbo Lake, one of three major high-mountain lava-barrier lakes in the world; Wudalianchi, one of three major cold springs in the world; Zhalong Nature Reserve, home of the red-crowned crane; Xingkai Lake, the boundary lake between China and Russia; and Yichun Forest Park.

(China Daily 09/05/2007 page11)