Qiqihar Ice & Snow Event is the festival celebration activity, which integrate culture and art, sightseeing & tourisms, physical culture & sports, introducing investment, and fair shopping. Since 1963, it has been held 23 events. It begins from the last ten-day of December each year and ends in the middle ten-day of February next year. The Ice & Snow Event for period of two month has already become the winter ice and snow tourist events that both the Chinese and foreign tourists love deeply.

Ice carving art gradually derived from development and evolution of the ancient Chinese Lantern Festival and Ice Lantern. It makes full use of the northern winter weather and adopts technological processes such as artificially pouring, carving, laying ice, piling up ice and building etc to form man-made ice and snow sights.

It is of unique ice & snow modeling art, which regards ice as a carrier, and integrates gardens, buildings, sculptures, paintings, dance design, literature and music etc. At the same time, it applies modern science and technology of sound, colors, light, electricity and moving etc to create the exquisitely carved and multi-colored art world.

The ice and snow art history of Qiqihar City is long-standing, and an ice-carving technique is highly skillful, and ice sights works are graceful. The themes and conceptions of ice and snow event always have new originalities each year. Every event makes full use of the topographies of Longsha Park, the Labor Lake or other public places, and it sets up several theme scenic spots where there are more than one thousand works with various moldings. Visitors pass through ice caves, ice bridges, ice roads and ice buildings to enjoy the world fairyland made from the lifelike ice sceneries and unpredictable colorful lanterns.

The activities of wedding ceremonies on ice, and ice and snow photography, sleds drawn by dogs and winter swimming etc lend even newer colors.

Qiqihar City called China Excellent Tourism City, the Green Food City and China Charming City, is situated in the northern border land of China, which is the hometown of red-crowned cranes, a kind of world rare birds, also a major equipment industry base of China and an ecological tourism hometown. It has convenient communication, vast territory, abundant produce, profound historical cultural details, and magical and extensive tourist resources. It is also the second big city of Heilongjiang Province and is the trade-distributing center in the join zone among Heilongjiang Province and Jilin Province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In order to carry forward the special northeast China cultures such as ice and snow culture, wet land culture, religion culture, Liu man culture and borderland culture, and fully exert the advantages of tourism that its development is fast and the pulling to other industries is powerful, we'll make great efforts to create the city tourist image brand of the World Big Wetland and China Crane Hometown to promote the image of Qiqihar City and strengthen the propaganda of the City. Since 2002, we has held the Northeast China Cultural Tourist Festival of Qiqihar in winter each year, that the theme is Developing Economy, Promoting Tourism, Enriching the Life and Propagating the Crane City. Presently, it has already become one of main winter tourist festival celebration activities in China.

Meilisi Dawur District of Qiqihar City is situated in the west part of Songnen Plain and on the right bank of Nenjiang River, which is only one Dawur ethnic group district of five districts governed by municipalities in China. There is total population of 171,000, including Dawur population of 12,000.

In the beginning of September each year, Nadamu and Aobao Get-Together are held, which is a traditional grassland carnival of Mongolian and Dawur ethnic group. On the occasion, there are various traditional sports and recreation competitions such as horse race, wrestling, archery and field hockey etc., and literature and art performances with strong national features. At the same time, the interflow of commodities and scientific and technical information goes along.

Qiqihar Crane Watching Festival was set up on the basis of 300th anniversary of the City celebration that the first festival began in 1992, and it is held once a year. It is a large international cultural festival celebration of trade and tourism that integrates investment introducing, economy and trade negotiation, products exhibition fair, cultural activities, tourism & sightseeing. The Crane Watching Festival takes the cranes as the intermediary, and Governments Puts up Platform and Enterprises Perform; and Recreation and Sports Puts up Stages and Economy and Trade Perform; and Unity, Friendship, Cooperation and Development as the tenet, and Further Reformation and Widening Opening-Up and Promoting Development as the target for Qiqihar City to expand contact with foreign countries and enhance reputation and promote local economy development and accelerate the pace to the whole nation and the world. August 12 of each year, the prologue to the Crane Watching Festival begin with a large literature & art performance, which show spiritual style and features of the City with strong local features. The participation of the famous literature and art organizations and artists from domestic or foreign countries also adds to the prestige. During the festival, negotiations of introducing investment are very active that huge crowds of people are in heavy traffic for busy purchase and sale so that the result of the festival is satisfactory. Furthermore, those red-crowned cranes fluttering with elegant fairy postures make visitors indulge in pleasure. Since 2001, the Crane Watching Festival and Green Food Expo of Qiqihar, China have been held during the same period to promote the festival to a new level and obtain more social and economical benefits.

China Green Food Expo in Qiqihar, is a nationwide grand fair showing development achievements of green food and promoting communication and cooperation of green food industry. It began in 2001 and is held on August 28 each year. It is sponsored jointly by the National Ministry of Agriculture and Heilongjiang Provincial Government, and undertaken by China Green Food Development Centre and Qiqihar Municipal Government.

The Green Food Expo takes Green, Health, Cooperation and Hope as its theme and Advocating Green Conception, Leading Green Consumption, Exploring Green Market and Promoting Green Revolution as its tenet. During the expo, besides large opening ceremony and literature and art performances, there are also colorful activities such as show and business of green food and its means of production, and popularization of scientific and technical achievements, introducing investment, economy and trade negotiation, and lectures on green food knowledge, economical development strategy forum, and ecological tourism and sightseeing etc. Several hundred famous green food enterprises from home and abroad, which are engaged in production, distribution and investment, attend the expo and purchase and sale. The items and quantity striking a bargain and the amount of introducing funds increase year by year. The achievements, which are very remarkable, have shown fully China Green Food City, and that Qiqihar and even the whole country in green food production and development have obtained brilliant achievements, and that green food development potential and advanced production technology have brought the profound influence and great promotion on green food industry development.