Annual ice sculpture contest
NZPA-AFP Peking Nearly two million people have flocked to the annual ice sculptures contest in the north-eastern city of Harbin. The contest features a huge ice tower and a reproduc- , tion of China’s Great Wall. ' The 17-metre tower, built , entirely with ice blocks, is • the top attraction of the , twelfth annual contest and • exhibition that started in , the New Year and will last ♦ for two months, the New o China News Agency - (N.C.N.A.) said. The miniature Great • Wall, the other main attraction, stretches for more • than 100 metres, while most c of the other sculptures re- - present children, tigers and _• dragons. Nearly two million , people, including 2000 foreign tourists, have already trooped to a vast - park to see it, braving Har- * bin’s -30 deg. temperatures. - The sculptures of Harbin, the mam city in Heilongjiang Province, in earlier years have been shown at international ice sculpture competitions in Japan, Canada and the . States.
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Press, 14 January 1986, Page 33
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