Across China: A town "pulled by trains"

HARBIN, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- In a snow-covered small town, tourists swarmed into a century-old Russian-style house, sipping steaming fruit tea and enjoying the icy landscape through the window.

Dubbed "a town pulled by trains," Hengdaohezi, located in the city of Hailin in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, was originally established in the late 19th century when Russians built train maintenance workshops a