Local Tibetans put on traditional performances at the opening ceremony of the 4th Jiuzhaigou Ice Waterfall Tourism Festival at the foot of iced Pearl Shoals Waterfalls in Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area on Wednesday, January 9. Jiuzhaigou in the winter becomes a fairyland of glittering and translucent ice waterfalls, snow-caped mountains and sapphirine lakes covered in white. This festival will last until March 31 this year. Located in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Region in southwestern China's Sichuan Province, Jiuzhaigou is reputed in China as the Heaven on earth and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]

(CRI January 10, 2008)