Remote Chinese city Altay thrives in long winter, turning snow into tourism success
URUMQI, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- "Who could have imagined 20 years ago that our snow would turn into a treasure mountain bringing prosperity?" said Huanishibek Slanbek,a fifth-generation inheritor of the craft of making fur skis in Altay.
On the southern foothills of the Altai Mountains, which span Mongolia, Russia, China and Kazakhstan, sits Altay, a small city once little known even to many Chinese. Long considered