The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival

The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is an annual iciness festival that takes location with a topic in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, and now could be the biggest ice and snow pageant within the global. At first members within the competition had been particularly Chinese, but it has given that emerge as an global festival and competition, with the 2017 competition attracting 18 million site visitors and producing 28.7 billion yuan of revenue. The festival includes the world's biggest ice sculptures.

The pageant originated in Harbin's conventional ice lantern show and garden birthday party that takes region in iciness, which started out in 1963. It became interrupted for a number of years for the duration of the Cultural Revolution, however has on the grounds that been resumed when an annual occasion at Zhaolin Park was announced on January five, 1985. In 2001, the Harbin Ice Festival became merged with Heilongjiang's International Ski Festival and were given its new formal name, the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival.