Northern highlights

A winter landscape in Xunke county in Heihe.  [Photo provided to China Daily]

Jingpo Lake offers ice fishing. Visitors can hunt in Heihe. Yichun's forests will host a cross-country race.

Yichun will also stage a photography competition to capture rime-glazed landscapes, snow-draped forests and frigid villages in the Great Khingan Mountains.

An international oil-painting trade center recently opened in Heilongjiang's capital, Harbin. It claims to be the largest of its kind in northeastern Asia and hosts pieces from Russia, Poland and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Visitors can buy works, watch artists create and learn more about the genre in general.

Hengdaohezi town's visitors can experience Russian customs and architecture, and eastern China's railways' historical development.