The Winter Olympics promises are coming, and the feast of ice and snow is already fragrant

Text/Yin Jianguang

As the countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics enters one month, the flavor of the Winter Olympics across the country has become more and more intense, and the vision of “driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports” is being reflected in reality. On January 4, reporters from Chinanews.com watched the sports and cultural exhibition in Beijing; learned freestyle skiing with the third runner-up of the Winter Olympics in Shenyang; watched the cross-country skiing competition in Changchun; visited the ice and snow carnival in Harbin to experience the appointment of the whole people to go to the Winter Olympics together. One month soon came, and 30 days passed in a flash. The Winter Olympics promises are coming, and the feast of ice and snow is already fragrant.

The quiet arena looks forward to the Winter Olympic athletes holding hands. The arena is quiet, helping the wind to rise; time ticking, giving birth to magnificent waves. During the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics, each competition area renovated the old stadiums on the one hand to turn them into professional ice and snow competition venues, and at the same time built a number of new competition venues. In the newly-built competition venues, many have set the “world‘s best” and “world‘s first”. National Speed ​​Skating Stadium-the world‘s largest single-story two-way orthogonal saddle-shaped cable net roof stadium, Shougang Ski Jump-the world‘s first permanently reserved ski jump venue, and the National Snowmobile and Sled Center-the world‘s first A 360-degree slalom track, the National Ski Jumping Center-the world‘s largest ski jumping venue. Perfect facilities, innovative design, high-spirited responsibility by the big country, and demonstration of China’s responsibilities will inevitably enable athletes to achieve faster, higher, and stronger results, which is full of expectations.

The Spring Festival empowers the unique charm of Beijing Winter Olympics culture. On February 1, the first day of the Lunar New Year, this is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation-the Spring Festival. The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics is scheduled to be held on February 4, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. According to the schedule, related events will start on February 2. The perfect encounter between the ice and snow feast and the Chinese New Year culture is a cultural gift from China to the world and a wonderful opportunity for the world to learn about Chinese culture. The Beijing Winter Olympics contains many traditional Chinese cultural elements, which are huge to the construction of the venues, such as the medal design, and every link is integrated into the Chinese cultural artistic conception. The Chinese “Flavour of the New Year” will give this ice and snow event a richer connotation. When Spring Festival couplets, lantern riddles, and lanterns appear in the broadcast footage, and when special delicacies are served on athletes’ tables, the Beijing Winter Olympics will surely become a unique cultural and sports feast that China will offer to the world. The beauty and beauty, communication and integration, the charm of the Beijing Winter Olympics is rising, unique.

The Winter Olympics wrote the legend of China’s ice and snow sports. Let more people participate in the ice and snow sports, this is the meaning of the Olympic movement. From the northern part of the Sai to the south of the Yangtze River, from the western border to the eastern coastal area, the domestic ice and snow sports and the ice and snow industry have developed vigorously in the past six years. According to reports, as of the beginning of 2021, 654 standard ice rinks and 803 indoor and outdoor ski resorts of various types have been built across China. The numbers have increased by 317% and 41% respectively compared with 2015. Under the vision of “driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports“, the results of the ice and snow sports “expanding from the south to the west and advancing to the east” appeared. The fourteen years from the Summer Olympics to the Winter Olympics are also the fourteen years of rapid development of Chinese sports. The marathon data blowout, and the “15-minute fitness circle” has gradually become a reality. Last year, the “14th Five-Year” Sports Development Plan, “National Fitness Plan (2021-2025)” and other documents were issued successively, marking the start of a new journey of national fitness and healthy China. If sports are strong, a country will be strong, and sports will flourish if the nation’s sports are strong. The preparation process for the Winter Olympics has created a miracle for the development of ice and snow sports in China.

The spring breeze is full of freshness, and the levy has not been solved before crossing the saddle. The “Double Olympic City” from summer to winter will surely create a new milestone in the history of the 100-year Olympic Games. With the good wishes of “together with the future”, a sports event of “wonderful, outstanding and extraordinary” is coming, and we are looking forward to the future together. “Bingdun DunBeckoning enthusiastically, “Xuerongrong” is opening its beautiful embrace. The world looks forward to China, and China is ready.