China News Service, Jilin, December 18 (Shi Hongyu) The 26th China Jilin International Rime and Snow Festival opened on the 18th in Jilin City, Jilin Province.
The event attracted tens of thousands of tourists from all over China to come to see the spectacle of rime and feel the fun of ice and snow sports.
Rime Ice and Snow Festival Opening Ceremony Photo by Shi Hongyu
The rime of Jilin, the sea of clouds of Huangshan, the sunrise of Mount Tai, and the tide of Qiantang are called China's four major meteorological wonders.
Jilin City is known as the "City of Rime". The Songhua River runs through the city. Affected by the temperature difference and the mist of the river, the river bank in the urban area will form a spectacular rime landscape every year.
Relying on the natural beauty, Jilin first held the Rime Ice and Snow Festival in 1991.
After years of development, it has developed into a comprehensive festival that integrates tourism, culture, sports, and economy and trade with influence at home and abroad.
Theatrical performance at the Rime Ice and Snow Festival Photo by Shi Hongyu
The current Jilin International Rime Ice and Snow Festival will run through the entire 2020-2021 snow season and will last until the end of February 2021.
During the period, 11 high-quality ice and snow tourism routes will be launched, including rime viewing, skiing vacation, hot spring health care, and folk custom experience, and 14 main activities and more than 100 series of activities will be held.
Jilin rime attracts tourists from all over the world every year (data map) Photo by Cang Yan
Since December this year, the temperature in Jilin City has continued to drop, the Songhua River mist has risen, and the "five-star" smog has repeatedly appeared on the Internet hot search list.
In the local Vanke Songhua Lake, Beida Lake and other world-class ski resorts that are well-known both at home and abroad, professional athletes and ski enthusiasts gallop in the pure white world.
Xue Li, a tourist from Wenzhou, Zhejiang, said that he and his friends came together this time. After watching various performances, snow sculptures, and alpine rime, he looked forward to experiencing skiing.
Rime is sought after by tourists (data map) by Cang Yan
Jilin Province is located in the golden latitude zone of ice and snow with the Alps and Rocky Mountains, and is one of the world's three largest powder snow bases.
In recent years, the province has vigorously developed the "platinum industry" and promoted the continuous increase of ice and snow tourism, with increasing influence at home and abroad.
A Dong, Deputy Governor of the Jilin Provincial Government, introduced that the local area will seize the major historical opportunities of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, create a Winter Olympics atmosphere of "Olympics in Beijing, experience in Jilin", and use the ice and snow industry as a driving force for the conversion of new and old to achieve high-quality development The ice and snow industry has shown a strong momentum of development.
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