China Jilin International Rime, Ice and Snow Festival

Time: From December to February next year

The festival was held for the first time in 1991. After years of development, it has become a famous provincial-level festival as well as a large festival in China. The purpose is to exhibit Jilin’s unique tourist resources and its image as an excellent tourist city, a famous historical and cultural city, one of the top 10 most beautiful cities and one of the top 10 recreational cities in China through various ice and snow-related tourism, cultural, sports and commercial activities, thus promoting the city’s popularity and reputation.

The Active Jilin’s Happy Ski Festival, Ice and Snow Hot Spring Cultural Tourist Festival, the Beishan Spring Temple Fair, the Manchu Ethnic Yangko Dancing, winter swimming, ice lanterns, snow sculpture exhibition, fireworks party, float river lamps and the Rime Ambassador Competition, with the theme of “appreciating rime, experiencing ski and touch the hot spring culture”, have played an active role in enriching people’s life, stimulating the local economy and enhancing harmony in society, and thus, making Jilin City a hot tourist spot in northeast China.