China’s Ice and Snow World park to open on Christmas Day
The park, which is the world’s biggest, will display more than 2,000 ice sculptures and offer interactive shows and performances
Workers are digging up large quantities of ice and building thousands of sculptures ahead of the 19th edition of the annual festival at Harbin Ice and Snow World park, according to China’s state broadcaster.
The biggest ice exhibition in the world, the theme park will open on Christmas Day in the capital of China’s northernmost province, Heilongjiang, CCTV reported.
This year’s festival is bigger than usual, leading workers to commence operations early.
“Usually work starts around December 5, but this year we began to dig up the ice required for the models and sculptures on December 1. There are almost 10,000 people working in the park and construction is half complete,” Wang Zengyu, executive manager of Ice and Snow World, said.
The park will display more than 2,000 sculptures, using 180,000 cubic metres of ice, and put up different kinds of activities, interactive shows and performances centred on a winter theme, the report said.
