Huge, taller than 26 meters, the tower was built to become the center of Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, which will be fully open in 2014,
10,000 employees worked non-stop to finish a wonderful figure of ice and snow.
More than 180 thousand square meters of ice were used which is extracted from the Songhua River and dragged to the festival site.

Difficult task: Workers pulling giant cube of ice from the river to the main festival site. Each ice cube weighs about 551lb (250kg) Felling of ice floes in the river Songhua. They will use the 180,000 square meters of ice
One worker polishes ice sculpture - of thousands of frozen blocks, pictured - before celebrations in January.