Fairy-tale ice sculptures attract hundreds of thousands of tourists into China's Harbin.China's annual Ice and Snow Festival, with (it) fairy-tale ice sculptures, opened on Friday, drawing large crowds of tourists who walked carefully over the (slip) ice and snow. This year the ice park covers 810, 000 square meters with 250, 000 cubic meters of sculptured ice (harvest) from the nearby frozen Songhua River, and lit up at night with colourful lights.
The sculptures, some of were a-few-storey-high, featured Chinese style buildings and bridges, fairy-tale castles, towers and one modeled after Beijing's Temple of Heaven. All of them left a deep (impress) on the visitors.
The festival's marketing vice director Sun Zemin told Reuters the average number of people visiting the park daily has increased (significant) to around 30,000 this year. Over the past few days, the festival park (receive) more than 163, 200 people, (generate) 46. 18 million yuan ($6 45 million) in income, nearly six times higher a year ago. That helped draw some 3.05 million tourists to the city during the same period, and Heilongjiang's Culture and Tourism Department called the tourist boom "ice and snow miracle" in Harbin this winter.
