My hometown Harbin(China)--Harbin Summer Music Concert（哈夏音乐会、哈尔滨之夏音乐会）

（By freelance Chinese translator li – based in Harbin – English to Chinese translation or Chinese to English translation services - website localization）

Harbin Summer Music Concert ('Concert' for short) is a national concert festival, which is held on August 6th every two years for a period of 10~11 days. During the concert, multiple evenings, concert, race and activities are held. The artists come from all over the world. The 'Harbin Summer Music Month', which was then renamed as 'Harbin Summer Music Concert', was held in August 1958. The first formal Concert was held on August 5th, 1961 in Harbin Youth Palace（青年宫）, and kept on every year until 1966 when the Cultural Revolution started in China. In 1979, the Concert was recovered and from 1994, it has been held every two years. In 2008, the 29th Harbin Summer Music Concert（第29届哈夏音乐会） will be held on August 6th.