Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, is located in the belt within 125°42′E to 130°10′E and 44°04′N to 46°40′N and situated in the northeast of China and in the south of Heilongjiang Province, the main terrain of which is flat, low-lying, however, in the east 10 counties directly under which there grow lots of mountains and uplands.
Songhua river winds through the central part of the city, the southeast of which adheres to the branch-uplands of Zhangguangcai mountain, the north of which's Xiaoxing-an mountain, in which the mountains' altitude's not high, the rivers intervein vertically and horizontally, the plain's far-flung. Varied rivers in Harbin all belong to Songhua river and Mudan river water systems, the main parts of which are comprised of Songhua river, Hulan river, A-shi river, lalin river, Mangniu river, Mayan river, East shining Pearl river, Ni river, Piao river, Feiketu river, Shaoling river, Wuyue river, Weiken river and so on. The four seasons of Harbin are so obvious and Winter's comparatively long in contrast with the three others' transient and the climate is cold and dry. Summer's transient and hot with the abundance of rainfall which mainly concentrates on from June to Sep. and configurates more than 70% of the whole year's rainfall. The temperature in Spring and Autumn of Harbin is changeable and two seasons are transitional ones with big wind blowing.
Lying on the fertile Songliao plain, the bank of Songhua River, Harbin is an outstanding anti-torridity interest, a charming and gentle, unique and featuring city abounding in European scenery as well, especially attracting numberless tourists from the internal and external places. Beautiful Songhua River winds through the city like a ploychrome belt, and elegant Sun island like a shining pearl is enchased on the north bank of Songhua River.
Lofty anti-flood Cenotaph, Songhuajiang Expressway Bridge spanning north and south, and magnificent Worker Stadium adorn the graceful Harbin as a coquettish fairy. Harbin might holds the main features of ice and snow resources and anti-hot travel, the ice lantern in Zhaolin Garden and snow sculptures on the Sun Island and ice and snow world of which take the prestigious reputation all over the world. What's more, Two-dargon mountain, Song-mountain and internal famous skiing place: Yabli Skiing Plaza, have nowadays become the ideal spots of sightseeing and traveling. In the Northeast Tiger Garden and zoo live so many varied species of rare animals; multitudinous parks in downtown so classic and elegant…
Harbin strives vigorously to exploiture the traveling resources, and presents ice and snow travel, hunting travel, folk custom travel, anti-sunstroke travel, Jin dynasty's culture travel and some other items to the tourists. Ice and snow travel's heat brought along the development of seasonal travel items, such as, drift and ecologic scenery travel, city leisure travel and etc. Ice and snow festival, ice and snow world, ice lantern garden party, Yabli and longevity skiing squares, all these winter travel brands are well known around domestic and oversea world.