1st LD-Writethru-China Focus: World's largest ice-and-snow theme park opens on Winter Solstice in China's "city of ice"

HARBIN, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Gliding down an over-500-meter-long ice slide, Zhang Jiajia felt like she was flying, and that her one-minute experience had been worth the hour-plus wait in line.

"It's super exciting. My heart soared with me," said Zhang, a tourist from east China's Zhejiang Province, after trying the Super Ice Slide at the iconic Harbin Ice-Snow World, which kicked off its annual run on Saturday.