Are things expensive in Harbin? Which city is fun?

Price: This is a well-known deformed economic structure in the country with low wages and high prices (not locals think prices are high, but friends from other places around me think prices in Harbin are high). But it's definitely lower than Guangzhou. I just hope you don't look at prices based on the economy here.

Temperature: The temperature during this period is between minus 4 degrees and minus 15 degrees. I don’t know when you will come. December to January is the coldest time, with the lowest temperature generally ranging from minus 20 degrees to minus 28 degrees (what is the concept? Anyway, it is lower than the lowest temperature of the freezer). As for your question about whether it will be freezing to death, if it was freezing to death, people would have been freezing to death here long ago. As long as the protective measures are taken well, it's basically fine, and the indoors here are also very warm.

Clothes: Down jackets must be worn as outerwear. The standard outfit for all southern tourists visiting Harbin is outdoor clothes such as ski suits. In fact, most locals wear down jackets during the winter. Down jackets are the truth when it’s the coldest. The inner part depends on your needs. In winter, I always wear a regular shirt or a base layer underneath and a down jacket on the outside. If you are not used to it when you first arrive, you can choose to wear a fleece jacket underneath. Pants, ordinary jeans as outer trousers, thermal trousers as inner part and a pair of tight-fitting trousers as the inner part. When it comes to shoes, you must wear cotton shoes. The part of the human body that is most afraid of the cold is actually the feet. Those Taobao-style cotton shoes are actually relatively thin. They are fine for wearing now, but they won’t be able to handle them in December. Just buy ordinary outdoor cotton shoes. You are new here, so you need to do a good job on your face. Ear bags, hats, masks. The wind here hurts your face, and your ears will hurt from the cold. Even locals will feel uncomfortable, so you should take precautions when you come here for the first time. In short, nothing matters here as long as you wear more clothes. In addition, don’t buy the furry “dogskin hats” like those in TV dramas. Southern tourists think that people here just wear those for keeping warm. I should buy one too, but it’s so ugly. When locals see people wearing those hats on the street, their first reaction is: they look like southern tourists, so ugly. Except for southern tourists, almost no one wears that kind of hat. . .

Hotels vary by location. Those close to scenic spots or commercial areas are definitely a little more expensive. Generally, special rooms in fast hotels are 88 or 99 a night, and ordinary ones are 128 or 138. 168 for this price. A small hotel costs around 50. No matter how cheap it is, 30 a night is not impossible. First of all, it is difficult to find, and secondly, the conditions of the place are very poor. If you go out for fun once, there is no need to suffer that fate. If you want to find a cheap place that doesn’t require any conditions, you can look for hotels around 50 RMB on the group buying website. Generally, the conditions of hotels in this price range are pretty good.

Interesting city: Harbin is the only famous tourist city here. If you have plenty of time, I recommend you to visit Changbai Mountain in Jilin and Mohe in Heilongjiang. You may also consider Xuexiang, where the atmosphere is too commercial and consumption is relatively high.