Liu and his team are among more than 100 people who work on the Songhua River to harvest the 170,000 cubic metres of ice bricks needed this year — enough to fill 70 Olympic swimming pools.

The swimmers trained daily throughout the year for this. They first carved out a pool in the Songhua River, breaking the 10-centimeter (4-inch) thick layer of ice that had formed again overnight ...

The northeastern province of Jilin will invest 8.8 billion yuan (about 1 billion U.S. dollars) in the next five years to control pollution in the Songhua River, which flows into the Sino-Russian ...

The source of all that ice is one of the most amazing aspects of the feat. The expansive Songhua River that flows through the city lies under a thick surface of ice in the winter. Bob Woodruff ...

China will invest more than $3 billion over the next five years to clean up the Songhua River, a key source of drinking water for tens of millions of people that was polluted in November by a ...

In January 2023, a collection of stunning images was shared on Facebook with a caption claiming they showed, "Ice flowers found in Songhua River, China." The Facebook post read: #CTDiscovery ...

The lanterns, hollowed ice blocks with a light inside, were formerly used to help fishermen on the city’s Songhua River. Later, the lanterns became works of art. The city began to host an art ...

This aerial photo shows an ice collecting festival on the Songhua River in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 7, 2023. Ice cubes collected from the frozen Songhua ...

China’s top health official today said the pollution of the Songhua River by a chemical spill was a big problem which has highlighted the country’s need to have contingency plans for emergencies.

The swimmers had trained daily throughout the year for this moment. They first had to carve out a pool in the Songhua River, thawing the 10-centimeter (4-inch) thick ice that froze overnight.

Every winter, dozens of workers brave sub-zero temperatures to hack ice from the mighty Songhua River and deliver it around Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province. It forms the building ...

An explosion at a Chinese chemical plant two weeks ago spilled a 50-mile slick of benzene into the Songhua River, which provides drinking water for the city of Harbin. After the accident ...