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. |