Visitors take photos as they view melting ice sculptures at Qipan Mountain in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province February 23. The average temperature of the first ten days of February this year in Liaoning reached minus 2.3 degrees Celsius, 7 degrees higher than previous years.

Ice sculptures melt away at Qipan Mountain in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province February 23.

A combination photo of snow sculptures on Qipan Mountain in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, on January 10 (lower) and February 23 (upper).

(Xinhua News Agency February 25, 2007)