China Focus: Global tourists discover "Cool China" at world's largest ice-and-snow park

HARBIN, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- CNN correspondent Mike Valerio rang in the New Year among throngs of visitors at Harbin Ice-Snow World, braving sub-zero temperatures to showcase what he described as the "largest winter festival in the world" to audiences worldwide, underlining that this city has become yet another glitzy attraction boosting travel to China from locations around the world.

For many in the West, the na