Yabuli International Skiing Festival

    Yabuli Skiing Vacation Area is a tourists' resort at the state 4A level. It is situated 20O km to the east of Harbin. It occupies a land of 68 square km, and is part of Yabuli State Forest Park. Yabuli is the origin of China's skiing tourism. The show competition events of the third Asian Winter Games were held here in l996. It is the highest winter games ever held in China up to now. Yabuli Skiing Vacation Area owns an competition skiing course (elevation at 1,374 m, with maximum fall head of 900 m) and a tourist skiing course for leisure skiing (elevation at 1,000 m, with maximum fall head of 600 m). There are altogether more than 30 skiing courses at primary, intermediate, urse is 10,00O m long. The total length of suspension cableway is 10,000 m. There are 5,000 sets of snow sport devices to rent. The ice period lasts for 170 days, and skiing period lasts for 120 days (from December every year to March the next year), both being the longest in China's skiing business.

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