HARBIN, China (AP) — Faced with temperatures dipping to -30 Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit), visitors to China's wintertime resort ...

Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit), visitors to China's wintertime resort city of Harbin often make a beeline for stalls selling padded ...

Visitors enjoy a ride on a tube slide pulled by a vehicle on the frozen Songhua river in Harbin, China's Heilongjiang ...

People are making the best of the freezing weather in northeast China: Sculptors have finely chiseled ice into elaborate ...

Yu Xiaofeng leaps into a pool carved from ice on the frozen Songhua river in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang ...

People are making the best of the freezing weather in northeast China: Sculptors have finely chiseled ice into elaborate ...

The main festival covers 1 square kilometer (.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.

Even as the mercury dropped well below freezing, enthusiasm soared among about a dozen hardy swimmers during a daily ritual ...

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I loved it so much, and I can still picture it." Xu lived near the Songhua River and often saw workers collecting ice blocks from the water in the winter to be made into sculptures. "At that time ...