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Harbin City (Hā'ěrbīn Shì), abbreviated as "Ha", is the capital of Heilongjiang Province. This city is renowned at home and abroad as the "Ice City". As China's northernmost provincial capital, it exhibits a unique blend of northern grandeur and exotic elegance due to its severe winters, magnificent ice sculptures, and rich Eurasian charm.

Harbin is located in the center of China's Northeast Plain, situated on the vast Songnen Plain, with the Songhua River flowing through it like a jade belt. It has a temperate continental monsoon climate with distinct seasons, but its winter is particularly long and cold, with minimum temperatures reaching below -30 degrees Celsius. It is this extreme cold that has shaped Harbin's soul, making it an undisputed capital of ice and snow art.

Harbin's charm lies partly in its fairytale-like ice and snow, and partly in its frozen historical architecture. Every winter, the grand "Harbin International Ice and Snow World" builds a dream city with glistening ice blocks; the snow sculpture art on Sun Island, meanwhile, showcases another kind of snow's softness and grandeur. In the city, walking on the century-old cobblestones of Central Street, you'll find Baroque and Byzantine-style buildings lining both sides, especially the magnificent Saint Sophia Cathedral, making one feel as if they are in "Oriental Moscow".

The city's culture, much like its winter, is enthusiastic and direct. The hearty hospitality of Harbin people complements the lively activities in the icy and snowy landscape. Gastronomically, it's a perfect fusion of Russian-style Western food and Chinese Northeastern cuisine. A genuine Harbin Red Sausage, a fragrant Dalieba (Russian bread), paired with a bottle of "Duoming Da Wusu" (Harbin Beer), offers the most authentic local culinary experience. And as a "City of Music" designated by the United Nations, the long-standing "Harbin Summer" Music Concert showcases the city's artistic heritage beyond the severe cold.

As an important hub for China's opening to Russia and Northeast Asia, Harbin plays a key role in connecting the Eurasian land bridge. It is not only an important old industrial base of the country, with solid strength in equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and other fields, but also actively develops ice and snow tourism and foreign trade, relying on its unique ice and snow resources and geographical location. This city transforms its extremely cold natural endowment into developmental heat, shining with unique brilliance across the vast land of the northern country.