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哈尔滨英文导游词：哈尔滨概览(2010( 二 )


Harbin is the only Chinese city started adapting the Paris model in city planning, and historically influenced by Russian culture and bears some striking similarities with Moscow. The time of 1920 saw its prosperity. A Russian military base was built during the Russo-Japanese War; it was a haven for White Russian refugees after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and had the largest Russian population of any city outside the Soviet Union. But from 1931 to 1945, the Japanese invader occupied Harbin, living people suffering memory. Attracted by its rich resources of coal and iron, they established a heavy industry base.
After liberation in 1946, Harbin was chosen as one of the candidate capitals of China, for it is the first city liberated by the CCP and strategically situated near the Soviet Union.
Harbin is one of Chinas major industrial bases. In the past 50 years, Harbin has established a comprehensive and wide-ranging industrial system with mechanical and electrical industries as its mainstay. Harbin is famed for its home of power, which is derived from the three big plants: Harbin Electric Machinery Plant, Harbin Boiler Plant and Harbin Steam Turbine Plant. So far the industrial enterprises supplied one third of the countrys total installed capacity. Harbin Fair for Trade and Economy has become one of Chinas most important trades fair.
As a city in a Far East, Harbin indeed has its own unique attractions as a tourist destination. Harbin has a temperate monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, but Harbin claims to be best in summer and winter, especially winter. So you are lucky to be here in season. Harbin has a moderate weather in summer, The Songhuajiang River winds through the northern part of the city and adds to its beauty. Sun Island with natural habitats and artificial features is Harbins biggest summer resort. In deep winter it becomes a sparking world of ice and snow, a city molded in jade and silver. The houses, built in different styles, are all mantled in snow. In the parks are many sculptures carved in ice, looking like the crystal palaces in fairyland. The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival have been held since 1985, starting from January 5 and lasting one month. Winter activities in the festival include Yabuli Alpine Skiing, winter-swimming in the Songhuajiang River, and the ice-lantern exhibition in Zhaolin Garden. During that time, the real world and the fantasy world merge. If you have the opportunity to climb up the Dragon Tower, the highest steal structure TV tower in Asia, to have a birds view of Harbin, you will find that the icy city turns into a crystal world at night. Streets and buildings lit by ice lateens make the city look even more exotic than the daytime.
Harbin has a plenty of relics from Paleolithic age to semi-colony times. Harbin has 52 reserved points for cultural relic. In 1997 Harbin has been granted as one of the historical cultural cities. Harbin Confucian Temple is the most magnificent ancient architectural complex of the Northeast China, while the Central Street is the most beautiful pedestrian street in the Far East with all sorts of west style architecture.

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