World’s largest ice-and-snow park closes as temperature rises
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Harbin Ice-Snow World, the largest theme park of its kind in the world, closed on Saturday as rising temperatures led to the melting of its ice and snow landscapes.
The 27th edition of the popular winter attraction, located in Harbin, the capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, ended its run earlier than usual this year due to safety concerns and to ensure a quality visitor experience amid the thaw, according to the organizers.
Visitors who have reserved tickets can get full refunds, and in a special gesture, those who bought tickets for the period between Feb. 20 and 28, 2026, will be granted free admission to the next edition of the park.
While the outdoor park bids farewell for the season, the world’s largest indoor ice-and-snow theme park located within the Harbin Ice-Snow World complex will open at noon on Sunday.
As an established ice-and-snow theme park, Harbin Ice-Snow World is one of China’s leading winter attractions.
China aims to boost its ice-and-snow economy as a new source of growth, targeting an economic scale of 1.2 trillion yuan (about 174 billion U.S. dollars) by 2027 and 1.5 trillion yuan by 2030, according to guidelines released by the State Council.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
