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The ice festival's back in Harbin, China, after the pandemic.

People come from across China to see the ice sculptures.

18,500 people visited the festival each day in 2018.

Now, that's increased to more than 30,000.

163,200 people visited during the New Year's holidays.

This brought $6.45 million to the area.

The ice festival has sculptures of Chinese-style houses.

It also has sculptures of bridges and castles and ice slides for children.

There's even a copy of Paris's Notre Dame cathedral.

At night, coloured lights fill the buildings and fireworks light the sky.

University student Zhao

It was really worth it."

The festival's good for local tourism in Heilongjiang, which is China's most northern province.

The temperature here can go down to minus 24 degrees celsius.

But over 3 million people came to Harbin during the festival.

Large numbers of tourists travel from southern China, where the weather's warmer.

They wear winter hats with little ears.

Local people have started to call them "Southern Little Potatoes".

This hashtag trended on social media, which has increased visitor numbers.

I need to go indoors."

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