The Lake Songhua Resort in Jilin city, located in Northeast China's Jilin province, is scheduled to open its doors for business on Nov 12. The resort, located some 15 kilometers from downtown Jilin city, is a comprehensive complex offering mountain vacations, alpine skiing, events training, outdoor sports, restaurants and food outlets, as well as accommodation. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]

This sweeping and extraordinary image captures the winter magic to be found at the Lake Songhua Resort. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]

For the new winter season, the resort has an upgrade of its snow-making pipe network system for the whole mountain and the opening times of the snow trails are earlier. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]

Snowmaking begins in the Beidahu Ski Resort in Jilin city on Oct 27. The resort plans to be back running on Nov 18 and it has completed an overall renovation and upgrading. Some 37 new ski tracks have been installed, 20 of which have been put into operation – and the total number of ski tracks in operation has now reached 47. Two new cable cars have been added, bringing the total number of cable cars to 10. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]

An aerial view of the Wanfeng Tonghua Ski Resort – China's first alpine ski resort, built in 1959. The place got a face-lift last year. In the first season after the renovation, it received 300,000 tourists. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]

Enthusiasts hit the slopes at the Wanfeng Tonghua Ski Resort. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]

An impressive view of the Wanfeng Tonghua Ski Resort. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]

Tourists get to grips with the slopes at the Changchun Dingshan Ski Resort in Changchun city, in Jilin province. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]