Chinas Ice City Harbin 2019

China s northern ice city of Harbin has built its tourism sector into a dollarlevel industry, with its renown as one of the country s top winter destinations continuing to draw in huge numbers of visitors. As the capital city of northeast China s Heilongjiang Province, Harbin has been making good use of its ecological resources including ice and snow, and forests and wetlands, in an effort to build itself into a topnotch, allseason tourist location, while also being a popular international tourist attraction in winter. Tourism became Harbin s second dollarlevel industry in 2016. The city received more than million tourists in 2017 and made a total revenue of over 117 billion yuan (around 17 billion U. S dollars).