Tourists walk among the ice sculptures on Dec. 31 at Harbin Ice and Snow World. Photo: VCG

A Harbin Ice and Snow World visitor tries out a sort of bicycle on skies on Tuesday. Photo: Yu Chen

Tourists walk among the ice palaces Thursday at Harbin Ice and Snow World. The sculptures are open to the public until early March. Photo: Zhao Yuhang/China News Service, IC Photo

Tourists pose for photos Tuesday among the snow sculptures on the frozen Songhua River in Harbin. Photo: IC Photo

Penguins parade through Harbin Polarpark on Dec. 9. Photo: VCG

Ice sculptors carve a sculpture for the 35th Harbin International Ice Sculpture Competition, which ended on Thursday. Photo: VCG

Tourists line up Tuesday to ride the Ferris wheel at Harbin Ice and Snow World. Photo: Yu Chen

Tourists slide down an ice slide Tuesday at Harbin Ice and Snow World. Photo: Yu Chen

A tourist standing on the Songhua River tosses water into the air to watch it freeze on Dec. 28 in Harbin, where the temperature plumbed a low of -27 degrees Celsius (-24 F). Photo: VCG