Despite the frigid temperatures, visitors brave the cold while locals offer warm clothing to combat the chill.

Even as the mercury dropped below freezing, enthusiasm soared among about a dozen hardy swimmers during an annual ritual in northeast China’s ice city of Harbin.

[1] People are making the best of the freezing weather in northeast China. The annual Harbin Ice and Snow World delights ...

Born in 1965 to Liu Zhongqian, a former speed skating coach of 1959 World Speed Skating Championships silver medalist Yang ...

Each winter thousands of Chinese tourists visit the northeastern city of Harbin, where temperatures drop to a chilling -30C, and they often don't realise just how cold the resort will be ...

Different from the ice landscapes in other places, most of which are made using artificial ice, the ice sculptures in Harbin are all built with ice formed in nature. On the frozen Songhua River ...

6 square miles) of the city, with the sculptures using 13,000 cubic meters (460,000 cubic feet) of ice blocks cut mainly from the adjacent Songhua River. There are satellite parks elsewhere in Harbin.

HARBIN, China (AP) — Faced with temperatures dipping to ... the extreme cold and take in the sculptures built from ice blocks carved from the Songhua River, which freezes from late October to late ...

Chen Xia, from the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang, dived into the river even though she was suffering from a cold. She said the waters in her home city were warmer than those in Harbin ...

of ice blocks cut mainly from the adjacent Songhua River. There are satellite parks elsewhere in Harbin. “When I come here seeing all the ice sculptures and snow, it’s just so wow,” said Gu ...