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Harbin’s snow sculpture expo gains recognition abroad
Updated : 2015-02-05
By Liao Wei ( chinadaily.com.cn )
Harbin’s Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo in Heilongjiang province was recently listed among the top 50 historic moments around the world in 2014 by an American online news aggregator — The Huffington Post, according to the expo‘s organizing committee.
The main snow sculpture of the expo, Zhanfang, or Bloom, was the only ice and snow attraction among all the entries on the list.
It is located on the main venue of the expo park and has three attractions, which display the beauty of snow, European style landscape and the scenery of the province, on an area of 12,000 square meters.
Visitors take photo in front of the main sculpture “Bloom” at Harbin’s Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo on Jan 31, 2015. [Photo by Wang Jianwei/Xinhua]
A total of 36,000 cube meters snow leads it to be the largest one in the history of the expo.
Entries also included the return of Russia's manned spacecraft Soyuz, the independence of Crimea and the 20th anniversary of collapse of the Berlin Wall.
Background:
Founded in 2005, The Huffington Post is one of the most influential online news aggregators in America. In 2012, it won the Pulitzer Prize.
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