Harbin 哈尔滨

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Founded in 1999, the world's largest ice-and-snow theme park (800,000 m²), with ice usage on the scale of 200,000 m³

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Founded in 1963, birthplace of China's ice lantern art (first Ice Lantern Fair), fine ice sculpture exhibition

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Natural ice playground on the river (ice sledges / ice bumper cars / winter swimming shows), Songhua River ice-harvesting site

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Birthplace of China's ski industry ('China's Ski Capital'), three linked mountains (Dagukui / Ergukui / Sangukui), 20+ slopes with the longest 5 km

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A 1,450m street hailed as "Asia's No. 1 street" (rose with the 1898 Chinese Eastern Railway), 71 European-style buildings (four schools: Renaissance / Baroque / Eclecticism / Art Nouveau), bread-stone pavement (the "Golden Road" horseshoe-silver legend)

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A 1907 Russian army church rebuilt in 1932 in Byzantine style (the largest Orthodox church in the Far East), red-brick onion domes + flocks of pigeons

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Built in 1958 (commemorating the victory over the 1957 flood), Roman-style colonnade + reliefs

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China's largest surviving Chinese Baroque building complex (homes-and-shops of national capitalists, 1910s-1930s), time-honored snacks: Zhang Baopu / Laodingfeng / Fanjiyong

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Site of the Main Jewish Synagogue built in 1909, now a string-music concert hall (Jewish music culture), exhibition on Harbin's Jewish history

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A Russian-style street in Nangang (1900s housing area for Chinese Eastern Railway officials), red-brick church (Saint Alexeyev Church, built 1931, Orthodox)

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Former Moscow Market site (1906 Art Nouveau building), Jin Dynasty relics (from the Jin Shangjing site) / mammoth fossils / Bohai Kingdom relics

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First capital of the Jin Dynasty, Shangjing Huining Prefecture (1115-1153), site of Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda (Jin source culture), Bronze Seated Dragon (prototype of Jin imperial artifacts)

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Former puppet Manchukuo Police Hall site, deeds of Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army martyrs Yang Jingyu / Zhao Yiman / Zhao Shangzhi

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Original site of Unit 731's germ warfare facilities (headquarters building / special prison ruins), the largest germ warfare evidence in world war history

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River islet of "northern scenery" (Russian Style Town / Squirrel Island), winter Snow Expo (snow sculpture art show, one of the world's largest snow sculpture groups)

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Russian emigre-themed town ("Lieba Workshop" bread experience / Russian song and dance), collect stamps with the Russian-language passport

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Cross-river cableway overlooking the Flood Control Memorial Tower and both banks

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Binzhou Line bridge over the Songhua River built in 1900 (China's first cross-river railway bridge and a Chinese Eastern Railway hub), retired and converted into a pedestrian sightseeing bridge (“internet-famous bridge” night views)

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Riverside linear park (Flood Control Memorial Tower to Jiuzhan), a “Lilac Park” with Russian-style garden features

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City-planning scale model + 4D film (“Ice City, Summer Capital” positioning exhibition)

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Harbin city history (Chinese Eastern Railway / city of émigrés / Jinyuan Jin-dynasty culture) brought together in one multi-hall museum

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Former residence of Xiao Hong, author of “Tales of Hulan River” (a late-Qing northeastern courtyard house), plus a memorial hall

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Russian-style garden manor (rebuilt St. Nicholas Church—the 'First Church of the Far East', recreated in 2006 / Pavlov Castle), winter ice-and-snow castle + Russian food and song-and-dance shows

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The world's largest captive breeding base for Siberian tigers (sightseeing vehicle drives through tiger groups), tiger cub interaction

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Ocean aquarium + ice-and-snow hot springs complex (beluga show), 'underwater world and two worlds of ice and fire'

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The highest mountain in Heilongjiang (elevation 1,696m, Sky Garden alpine wetland + Grand Canyon waterfalls), UFO legend site of the 'First Marvelous Mountain of the North'