Economic Watch: Harbin holds first ice and snow expo for global industry

HARBIN, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Heikki Kontiosalo, deputy speaker of the city council of Rovaniemi in Finland, is impressed by China's evolving winter equipment, he told Xinhua as he stood surrounded by products on show at the Harbin International Ice and Snow Expo in Harbin, the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Industrial-grade unmanned snow-removal machines, snowmobiles and carbon fiber skis on d