Playing it cool

Expanding on the success of Harbin's ice festival, Heilongjiang is gearing up for a bumper winter season with a host of new tourism options. Yang Feiyue reports.

Heilongjiang launched an upgraded winter tourism package for the upcoming holiday season, offering a host of new travel routes, cultural festivals and hundreds of events to ensure winter fun for visitors coming from far and wide.

The routes take in all the winter tourism spots across the northeastern province, and feature ice-and-snow landscape scenery and art, forest expeditions, winter hunting, hot springs and study tours, says Hou Wei, deputy director of the Heilongjiang tourism development commission.