General Information
Author's Guide
Conference History
Conference Venue
Important Dates
Quick Links
City Travel
Harbin is served as the capital city as well as the largest city of Heilongjiang
Province. Located in the central area of Northeast China, Harbin is regarded as
a shining pearl linking with Eurasia Bridge. Complimented as “Ice City” with
gorgeous winter scenery contributed to the severe winter, Harbin creates one of
the four biggest World Ice and Snow Festival with colorful and interesting
activities and performances. It has never stopped to attract travelers home and
abroad to attend this gala to get the fully festive fun and laughter. Harbin
even surprisingly is reputed as the “Oriental Paris” and “Oriental Moscow”. That
is not only results from its dense European and Russian architectural relics to
make one wonder walking in a Western City, but because, beyond your imagination,
that new designs from Paris and Moscow first reached here before Shanghai in the
1920s, which made people treat Harbin as China’s Fashion Capital.
Top Attractions
Harbin has many amazing sites concentrated on both banks of Songhua River. On
the north bank, travelers can immerse yourselves into Ice and Snow World, Sun
Island Scenic Resort, Harbin Pole Aquarium and see Siberian tigers at Siberian
Tiger Park; on the south bank, travelers can pay a visit to Stalin Park or
Zhaolin Park, enjoy leisurely walk to St. Sophia Church and Zhongyang Street to
feel exotic Russian flavor. To travel out of Harbin downtown area, Yabuli Ski
Resort is the best choice for skiing fun. You can also go to the China Snow
Town, the no.1 snow town of China for terrific snow and village landscape.
|
|
|
|
||
|
Harbin Ice and Snow World 哈尔滨冰雪大世界 |
Saint Sophia Cathedral 圣索菲亚大教堂 |
China Snow Town 中国雪乡 |
||
|
|
|
|
||
|
Yabuli Ski Resort 亚布力滑雪旅游度假区 |
Central Street 中央大街 |
Harbin Sun Island 太阳岛风景区 |
Harbin Transportation
Get to Harbin
Travelers can take flights and high speed trains to reach Harbin. Harbin Taiping
International Airport is located in the southeast of Harbin, about 41
kilometers’ driving distance away (about 40 minutes). There are about 100
airlines linking with popular international cities (like Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka,
Moscow, Phuket Island, etc.) and many domestic cities (like Beijing (2 hrs),
Dalian (1.5 hrs), Qingdao (2 hrs), Jinan (2 hrs), Xian (3 hrs), Shanghai (3
hrs), Chengdu (3.5-4 hrs), Ordos (2.5 hrs), Hangzhou (3 hrs), Guangzhou (4-4.5
hrs), Xiamen (4-4.5hrs), Wuhan (3-3.5 hrs), Sanya (5 hrs), etc.). Both airport
shuttle (Line 1, 2, 3 and 4) and taxi are available running between airport and
downtown area.
The mainly used train stations in Harbin are Harbin Railway Station and Harbin
West Railway Station. Harbin Railway Station is situated in the downtown area,
within several kilometers away from the famous tourist attractions. It has D
trains linking with Beijing for 7.5 hours, Jilin for 2 hours, Shenyang for 2-3
hours, Changchun for 1-1.5 hours, etc.
Harbin West Railway Station is used for high speed train station, located in the
southwest of Harbin Railway Station, about 9 kilometers away. It has high speed
trains (D trains and G trains) running between Harbin and Beijing (7~8 hrs),
Changchun (1 hr), Shenyang (2.5~3 hrs), Dalian (4~5 hrs), Jilin (2-3 hrs),
Qingdao (11 hrs), Shanghai (12.5 hrs), Tianjin (6.5 hrs), Jinan (8.5 hrs), Wuhan
(13 hrs), etc.
Get around Harbin
Apart from having fun within the city downtown and suburb of Harbin, many
tourists also choose to travel further to discover more winter inspiration
surrounding Harbin. You can visit Yabuli Ski Resort by car for 3 hours, China
Snow Town for 5-6 hours, etc. Furthermore, direct buses and coaches are
available to both those tourist spots. Besides, there are some trains to Yabuli,
which needs another transfer to get to the spots.