A staff member gives safety instructions to a tourist before her ride on an ice slide at the Harbin Ice-Snow World in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 1, 2024. Among the dozens of entertainments at the Harbin Ice-Snow World, the 521-meter ice slide is doubtlessly a major eye-catcher.

Heilongjiang Province, renowned for its long and freezing winter with bountiful ice and snow, has been a popular destination for winter tourism in the country, luring numerous visitors from home and abroad during the New Year holiday. (Xinhua/Xie Jianfei)