Shenyang Winter Tourist Festival
In order to expand the opening up to the outside world, promote the development of tourist industry of Shenyang, and activate people's winter cultural and sport activities, Shenyang Municipal Government decided to set up Shenyang Ice and Snow Festival. It's the third largest winter festival in Northeast China after the success of Harbin Winter Festival and Jilin Winter Festival. Based on folk winter sports activities, the municipal government developed new festival activities of higher level and better quality. The festival aims at transferring the potential advantage of Shenyang winter tourist resources into a real one.
The main activities of the festival include Ice and Snow World in Huishan Scenic Spot, ice lantern garden carnival, flower exhibition, calligraphy, drawing and photo exhibition, Shenyang Yangko Competition, etc.
Lotus Festival at West Lake Shenyang
Shenyang West Lake is in Qiandangpu Town, Xinmin City Liaoning Province. The lake surface is altogether about 10,000mu, with 3,000mu natural lotus and 700mu island that stands at the center of the lake. With both natural resources and human cultivation, the lake is praised as "the hometown of Chinese lotus". Shenyang West Lake now has become a big holiday retreat with services of tourism, sightseeing and sports.
The people's government of Xinmin County has successfully held several lotus festivals since 1993. The West Lake Lotus Festival starts from 25th, July to 10th, August each year. At that time there come tens of thousands of visitors. The lotus and the music concert are especially appreciated by the visitors. During the festival, businessmen both at home and abroad come to acknowledge the investment circumstances. Xinmin County now has signed more than 1,000 economic cooperation programs, and altogether exploiting foreign capital for about 1.98 billion yuan. The rapid development of the tourist industry in Shenyang promoted the tourist industry development of its subordinate counties. The lotus festival now has become a motivating power to regional economy.
Lotus is the city flower of Xinmin. The people of Xinmin make friends with the world through the lotus festival. Shenyang West Lake Lotus Festival, a unique flower, blossoms in Asia.
Strange Slope Chinese Scholar-tree Flower Festival
Shenyang Strange Slope Scenic Area has Chinese scholar-tree forest of nearly 1,000mu. The flower blossoms in the last 10 days of each May. The fragrant smell spreads and many people come here to enjoy the nature and mold their temperaments.
The main activities of Strange Slope Chinese Scholar-tree Flower Festival include poems composing and picture drawing on the spot, which take the Strange Slope culture as the main theme; activities organized by travel agencies and scholar-tree flower show organized by the press circle.
International Folk Dance (Yangko) Festival
Since the reforming and opening up, Shenyang has success-sively held 4 folk dance festivals and gained a high reputation in and out of the country. The festival is entitled as "a great undertaking in the history of Yangko". The characteristic fast pace Yangko from Huanggu District and Xibo Nationality Lantern Yangko are especially famous. They have taken part in the country's 45-year anniversary celebration performance as representatives of Liaoning Province.
Shenyang College Students Cultural Festival
Shenyang College Students Cultural Festival is the main cultural activity of the 100,000 college students of more than 60 Shenyang colleges. It's held every 2 years. It's called the "magnificent feat of Chinese educational history". Five festivals have been held from 1990 to 1998. More than 600,000 students have taken part in over 2,400 campus cultural activities.