Contestants make a horse-themed snow sculpture in Yakeshi of Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 4, 2019. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
(191205) -- HULUN BUIR, Dec. 5, 2019 (Xinhua) --The third Hulun Buir International Snow Sculpture Invitational Competition is held from Dec.3 to Dec. 6, 2019 at Fenghuang Mountain Scenic Area. Twenty teams from home and abroad took part in the four-day competition.
Hulun Buir is a region that is governed as a prefecture-level city in northeastern Inner Mongolia, China. High steppes of the Hulun Buir grasslands, the Hulun and Buir lakes, and the Khingan range attracts thousands of tourists every year. Yakeshi, where the competition held, is famous for its cold winter and long snow cover time.
Photo taken on Dec. 4, 2019 shows a snow sculpture at Fenghuang Mountain Scenic Area in Yakeshi City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.(Xinhua/Wang Xuebing)
A contestant makes a snow sculpture in Yakeshi of Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Dec. 4, 2019. (Xinhua/Wei Jingyu)
Contestants make snow sculptures in Yakeshi of Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Dec. 4, 2019. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
Photo taken on Dec. 4, 2019 shows a view of Fenghuang Mountain Scenic Area in Yakeshi City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
Contestants make a horse-themed snow sculpture in Yakeshi of Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Dec. 4, 2019. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
Contestants make a snow sculpture in Yakeshi of Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Dec. 4, 2019. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
A contestant makes a snow sculpture in Yakeshi of Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Dec. 4, 2019. (Xinhua/Wei Jingyu)■