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Ice mining starts for Harbin ice, snow sculpture festival
14:23 December 07, 2018 Reuters
Ice mining for the 35th Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival kicked off on Friday on the Songhua River in Harbin, capital city of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. With less than one month to go before the festival begins, the river has already frozen to the minimum required thickness of 30 centimeters, ice miners, equipped with special tools and equipment, measured the surface before cutting 160 centimeters by 80 centimeters rectangular blocks of ice from the river.