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Other major centres of the northeast are Harbin, Shenyang and the port of Dalian.
Four hours by train north of Changchun is Harbin on the Song Hua River. Harbin is the home of the Ice Festival, wonderfully romantic and well worth a visit every year if it were not for the sight of poor animals forced to work in the bitter cold. The city is richly endowed with Russian architecture.
A similar distance southward lies Shenyang, the main supply market for the northeast. Traders flock there and return home with bulging baggage. But the differences in prices between Changchun, Shenyang and the commodity supply centres of southern China are not great as transport is inexpensive and wholesale prices are constrained.
Further south on the Bohai Sea perches Dalian, the more desirable location for someone concerned about aesthetics but the cost of living and of doing business is higher there, though the economy is warmer than in the other cities.
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