Raw beauty of subarctic region attracts tourists

Mohe, a county in Heilongjiang province at the northern tip of China, is famous for Beiji Village, known as China's "Arctic Village".

The county is one of the few places in China with a subarctic climate - long, severe winters and short, warm summers. Winter begins in early to mid-October and lasts until late April, and it is the coldest place in China, holding the record for the lowest temperature, - 52.3 C in 1956.

But if the climate suggests an inhospitable place, nothing could be further from the truth. China's frontier with Russia has a raw beauty that attracted more than 1 million tourists last year, although most visited in summer to witness the amazing aurora borealis, or northern lights.