Harbi is also a major processing facility center for such commodities as, soy beans, sugar beets, leather, and tobacco. More technologically directed factories procuce electric power turbine, plastics, and equipment for oil field exploration and drilling. Why then is Harbin's most famous claim to fame is it's yeary Snow-Ice Festival?
The Harbin Ice-Snow Festival is held at Zaolin Park from New Year's Day until the middle of February. The first Harbin Ice-Snow festival was held in 1985. The festival has been held every year since then and has now become one of the world's four largest ice and snow festivals, along with Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada's Quebec Winter Carnival, and Norway's Ski Festival.