Wang Xuechun, Acting Consul General in Vladivostok, published a signed article
“Meet in Beijing in 2022 to share the ice and snow event”
On October 22, 2021, Wang Xuechun, Acting Consul General in Vladivostok, published a signed article on “Meeting in Beijing in 2022 and Sharing Ice and Snow Events” on Binhai Media, a mainstream media in the Far East, introducing the progress of preparations for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics . The full text is translated as follows:
It has been 13 years since the unforgettable 29th Beijing Olympic Games. After more than a hundred days, the Olympic movement will return to Beijing. From February 4 to 20, 2022, the 24th Winter Olympic Games will be held in Beijing. This is the first time that China has hosted the Winter Olympics, and Beijing has therefore become the only “Double Olympic City” that has hosted both the Olympics and the Winter Olympics.
“The Chinese people will definitely be able to dedicate a wonderful, extraordinary and outstanding Winter Olympics to the world in Beijing.” This is a solemn promise made to the world when Beijing bid for the Olympics six years ago. In order to fulfill this commitment, less than a month after the successful bidding, Chinese President Xi Jinping issued important instructions to persist in hosting the Olympics in a green, shared, open, and clean manner, and established general principles and guidelines for how to organize the Winter Olympics. Pointed out the general direction.
Guided by the general principles of “green, shared, open, and clean”, the Chinese government has actively and orderly promoted various preparations for the past six years: insisting on ecological priority, resource conservation, and environmental friendliness. For the first time in the history of the Olympics, all venues will use wind power, Photovoltaic power and other green energy, while using the latest technology to maximize the use of existing venues and facilities, many venues that have witnessed the 2008 Summer Olympics will become “Double Olympic venues”, such as the National Aquatics Center “Water Cube” will become ” “Ice Cube”, the swimming pool turns intelligence into an ice rink; insisting on participating together, working together, and sharing together, so that the Olympic Games can contribute to the host city for a longer time. Undertaking some of the projects of this Winter Olympics has made the small city Chongli become famous overnight. Realizing a major explosion in the ice and snow industry, absorbing more than 30,000 people in related work, and the small town also getting rid of poverty; persisting in facing the world, facing the future, and facing modernization, making the Winter Olympics a booster for China’s opening up and a boost for people from all over the world Insisting on diligence and frugality, preventing corruption, improving efficiency, strict budget management, controlling the cost of running the Olympics, strengthening process supervision, and making the Winter Olympics as pure and clean as ice and snow.
Up to now, the preparations for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics have entered the final sprint stage. At the end of 2020, all competition venues have been completed as scheduled; within this year, all non-competition venues will also be delivered as scheduled. From October to December this year, it is also planned to organize 15 international and domestic test competitions and training activities to test all elements of the preparation work. Beijing is confident and capable of hosting a safe and exciting Olympic Games.
Russia is a traditional powerhouse in winter sports. Winter sports such as skating, skiing, and ice hockey have a good mass base in the Far East and other parts of Russia. China and Russia have a lot of exchanges and cooperation in the field of ice and snow sports. President Putin has accepted the invitation of President Xi Jinping to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics. We sincerely hope that the Russian athletes will actively prepare for the competition, make great achievements in the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics, and continue to make brilliant achievements.
The theme slogan of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics is “Together to the future”. This is China’s sincere invitation to the world, and it is also a true portrayal of China and the international community watching and helping each other to overcome difficulties under the conditions of the epidemic. We are confident to work together with countries around the world, including Russia, to ensure that the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics become a simple, safe and exciting Olympic event, and make new important contributions to the development of the Olympic movement.