Long Gong Hotel Harbin

The ice sculptures are not the only works of art along Zhongyang Dajie. The city has put a lot of whimsical statues along the street of Zhingyang Dajie, usually in the entrances to side streets. These are fairly common outside China, but the concept of human-scale statues is new to China, and they are cropping up in many cities. It seems to bring in a refreshing feeling that the cities are for people, and that art does not have to be monumental in scale.
It was particularly nice to see these statues and scultures in Harbin: they made the streets seem that much warmer.