Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 31st.Topic: The light of the Winter Olympics illuminates the way forward for mankind——The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core cares about sports and the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics
Xinhua News Agency reporters Ma Bangjie, Huang Yue, Zhang Xiao, Yang Fan
On February 4, the Chinese Lunar New Year “Start of Spring”, the day when spring is surging and hope is born, the 24th Winter Olympic Games will be opened in Beijing, the world‘s first dual-Olympic city. On the stage paved with pure ice and snow, the light of the Winter Olympics will illuminate the way forward for all mankind to pursue unity, peace and friendship.
Hosting the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics is a national and global event.
National Health People First
The hour hand is set back to July 31, 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The IOC plenary is about to vote on the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
“The Chinese people are looking forward to and waiting for this opportunity. I believe that if you choose Beijing, the Chinese people will be able to dedicate a wonderful, extraordinary and outstanding Winter Olympics to the world in Beijing!”
The final word! General Secretary Xi Jinping’s firm support and solemn commitment to Beijing’s bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics expressed through the video has become a key factor in the success of the bid.
Without national health, there will be no comprehensive well-off. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has paid great attention to and attached great importance to sports, placed the people in the supreme position, and always led the healthy and orderly development of sports from the height of the people’s yearning for a better life.
National fitness has always been an important foundation and a powerful starting point for the strategic layout of China’s sports in the new era.
On August 31, 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized when meeting with the representatives who participated in the National Mass Sports Advanced Unit and Advanced Individual Commendation Meeting, and the National Sports System Advanced Collective and Advanced Worker Commendation Meeting, and stressed that national fitness is to enhance physical fitness and healthy life for all people. The health of the people is an important connotation of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and it is an important foundation for everyone to grow and achieve a happy life.
In October 2014, the State Council issued the “Several Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Sports Industry and Promoting Sports Consumption”, which raised national fitness as a national strategy, and pointed out that the development of sports and industries is an inevitable requirement to improve the physical quality and health of the Chinese nation.
Governing the country is constant, and benefiting the people is the first. “Several Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Sports Industry to Promote Sports Consumption” and the subsequent “National Fitness Plan (2016-2020)”, “Healthy China 2030” Planning Outline, “National Fitness Plan (2021-2025)” and other important The pound document highlights that the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core attaches great importance to improving the health of the whole people through sports, and has achieved remarkable results.
The “2020 National Fitness Activity Survey Bulletin” released by the National Physical Fitness Monitoring Center at the end of 2021 shows that the fitness level of urban and rural residents in my country continues to improve. In 2020, 37.2% of residents aged 7 and above regularly participated in physical exercise, an increase of 3.3 percentage points from 2014.
Strong youth and strong youth make China strong. General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about the physical health of hundreds of millions of students. At the National Education Conference held in September 2018, Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to establish the educational concept of health first, open full physical education classes, and help students enjoy fun, enhance physical fitness, improve their personality, and temper their will in physical exercise.
The bid for and preparation of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics also serves this purpose.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out when inspecting the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province on January 23, 2017, that an important purpose of our bid to host the Beijing Winter Olympics is to promote the rapid progress of ice and snow sports in my country and promote the widespread development of national fitness.
In the past, there was a pain point in national fitness activities, including school sports, that ice and snow sports were not popular enough. There has been a saying that “ice and snow sports do not enter Shanhaiguan” before, which vividly shows the imbalanced regional development of ice and snow sports in my country.
To improve this situation is the original intention and mission of our bid for and hosting the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In November 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave important instructions to the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics: to speed up the development and popularization of ice and snow sports to benefit the general public.
General Secretary Xi Jinping said that by holding the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games, we should promote the leap-forward development of ice and snow sports in my country, fill in the gaps, strengths and weaknesses, and gradually solve the problems of strong competitive sports, weak mass sports and “strong summer and weak winter”, The problem of “strong ice and weak snow” promotes the high-quality development of sports in the new era.
According to the plan and requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the preparation of the Beijing Winter Olympics has become an important booster for the development of national fitness activities.
After the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics in 2015, the government has successively issued the “Ice and Snow Sports Development Plan (2016-2025)” and “The Implementation Outline of “Driving 300 Million People to Participate in Ice and Snow Sports” (2018-2022)” Documents such as “Opinions on Vigorously Developing Ice and Snow Sports by Taking the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as an Opportunity” to promote the popularization and development of ice and snow sports from the policy level.
Since the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics for more than 6 years, the ice and snow sports have been rapidly “expanding from the south to the west and the east to the east”, injecting new vitality and content into the national fitness.
In December 2018, the launching ceremony of the 5th National Popular Ice and Snow Season was held in Shanghai. The chairman of the International Sled Federation, Fergulis, who was invited to participate, was shocked at the event. He said that China’s determination and strength to drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports amazes him. During the seventh event held last year alone, more than 1,200 mass ice and snow events were held across the country, with over 100 million participants. At the same time, the “Ice and Snow Entering Campus” campaign jointly promoted by the education and sports systems has promoted the popularization of ice and snow sports to hundreds of cities, thousands of schools, and millions of young people. As of 2020, a total of 2,062 “schools with characteristics of ice and snow sports for youth” have been identified nationwide.
Entrusted by the Winter Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People’s Republic of China, the Social Situation and Public Opinion Survey Center of the National Bureau of Statistics conducted a statistical survey on “driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports“. The survey data shows that since Beijing successfully bid for the Winter Olympics in 2015, as of October 2021, the number of participants in ice and snow sports across the country has reached 346 million, and there are 654 standard ice rinks across the country, an increase of 317% over 2015; There are all kinds of indoor and outdoor ski resorts, an increase of 41% compared with 2015.
On January 4, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out when inspecting the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games, that over the years, with the joint efforts of all parties, more and more people have fallen in love with ice and snow sports, and they have The goal of “driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports” has been achieved.
“Driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports” has been called the largest ice and snow sports popularization activity in human history by the international sports community. International Olympic Committee President Bach said: “This will become a great opportunity for the development of ice and snow sports and even the world‘s sports.” “The Beijing Winter Olympics will change the pattern of winter sports in the entire world.” The Olympic Summit held in December 2021 believes that “driving the 300 million people participating in ice and snow sports” has brought the development of global ice and snow sports to a new height.
Suddenly, like a spring breeze, thousands of trees and pears bloom. The winter sports landscape is changing dramatically across the country. In the southern region, the rapid development of ice and snow sports is surprising. According to Ke Ping, director of the Chongqing Winter Sports Management Center, Chongqing currently has 6 ice rinks and 10 ski resorts, and the number of people participating in ice and snow sports has increased from less than 10,000 in 2018 to one million in 2021. Zhang Yan, founder of the Magic Ski Academy, a ski training organization, has been involved in the operation of two indoor ski resorts in Shanghai and Suzhou. He said that the people in the south are no less enthusiastic about skiing than those in the north. “Everyone is very happy to be able to ski to the real snow.”
After the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Beijing’s water sports have made great progress, and they have repeatedly competed for gold and silver in national competitions. The ski resorts around Beijing have become the new darling of mass sports consumption. Qiao Wei, general manager of Beijing Jundu Mountain Ski Resort, said that his ski resort was built in 2003, and the number of skiers was less than 30,000. In the 2021-2022 ice and snow season, the number of skiers in Jundu Mountain Ski Resort is expected to exceed 160,000.
“‘Drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports‘ has its rich connotation and extension. The most important thing is to improve people’s quality of life and happiness through ice and snow sports.” Li Xiaoming, chairman of the Beijing Ski Association, said.
General Secretary Xi Jinping’s concept of “people first” runs through the whole process of preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to actively plan the post-competition utilization of the Winter Olympics venues, and combine the holding of major events with serving the national fitness.
Adhering to the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, while meeting the needs of the Winter Olympics, Winter Paralympics and other events, the venues of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games have formulated a long-term plan to serve the popularization of ice and snow after the games and serve the fitness of the whole people. Planning to ensure the realization of the dual goals of hosting a wonderful Olympics and the availability, operation and sustainability of the venues after the games. The excellent projects are not only for holding a global event, but also for the long-term well-being of the people’s health.
A century-old plan, foresight. National fitness, benefit the people first. From the popularization of ice and snow sports to the design of the competition venues for the national fitness service after the game, all of them demonstrate the concept of “people-centered”.
“We will take the Beijing Winter Olympics as an opportunity to make competitive sports better, faster, higher and stronger. At the same time, we will vigorously develop mass sports and achieve national health through national fitness, so as to achieve the goal of a comprehensive well-off.” What is the significance of hosting a green, economical, and clean Winter Olympics? It lies in the fact that the health of the whole people is part of the task of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way.”
General Secretary Xi Jinping’s words clearly clarified the historical task of promoting national fitness and benefiting the people that we have undertaken to organize the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Building dreams, ice and snow, chasing dreams and moving forward
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has established the strategic goal of building a strong country in sports.
As early as February 2014, during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out when visiting members of the Chinese sports delegation that as long as we set our ambitions and keep up, we will surely be able to achieve the goal of progressing from a sports power to a sports power. Target. The members of the delegation were very excited.
In September 2019, the “Outline for the Construction of a Powerful Sports Country” was announced, which made clear arrangements for accelerating the construction of a powerful sports country, and proposed to make efforts to build sports into a symbolic cause of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In March 2021, the “14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People’s Republic of China and the Outline of Vision 2035” proposed to build a “sports power” by 2035.
The Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics will set a milestone on the journey of building my country into a sports power and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Building a sports power is an important goal of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that to speed up the construction of a sports power, we must prepare for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics with high quality, do all the preparation work, especially prepare for the war, speed up the popularization and improvement of ice and snow sports, and strive to hold a wonderful session. , an extraordinary and remarkable Olympic event.
In November 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed the concept of hosting the Olympics in a green, shared, open, and clean way, establishing the general principles for the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics. direction.
The four concepts of hosting the Olympic Games demonstrate the characteristics of the times, the scientific spirit and Chinese wisdom, and are the enrichment of the Olympic culture.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has inspected the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics five times, and visited the site to check the pulse and give guidance.
According to the deployment of the General Secretary, the organizers of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics adhered to the century-old plan, carefully designed and constructed, and advanced according to the plan and plan, and created a number of high-quality construction projects. The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 failed to stop the steady progress of preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics. By the end of 2020, all 12 competition venues will be completed, and have passed the acceptance and certification of relevant international individual sports organizations, and have been highly praised.
“Ice Ribbon”, “Xue Ruyi”, “Crystal Slipper”, “Snow Dragon”… These sports venues that contain the charm of Chinese culture and reflect cultural self-confidence form a beautiful scenery in the Olympic history.
The Yanqing National Snowmobile and Sled Center track “Snow Dragon” was built by Chinese people to tackle key problems through independent scientific research and to break the monopoly of many foreign key technologies. During the international training weeks and test races held in October and November 2021, the quality of the track facilities won unanimous praise. “It’s a really amazing and special track, the scenery and architecture will inspire you to compete,” said Lorraine, a silver medalist at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and a bobsleigh competitor.
At the end of 2021, the “Meet in Beijing” Winter Olympics test competition was successfully concluded, and all venues’ hardware and software passed high-quality inspections. The preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics are all in place.
Under the important instruction of General Secretary Xi Jinping to “work hard to deliver two excellent answers for the preparation of the Winter Olympics and local development”, the preparation of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics has promoted the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, especially the promotion of the old appearance of Chongli. With a new look, it has transformed from a backward county into a beautiful skiing city.
After the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics, some snow sports competitions will be held in Chongli. The Olympic spring breeze blows into the mountains, and the development of Chongli has entered the fast lane of rapid changes. In 2019, this small town achieved transformation, dropped out of the national-level poverty-stricken counties, and was recommended by the New York Times as a global tourist destination of the year. Also on December 30 of this year, the world‘s first intelligent high-speed railway with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway, was officially opened to traffic, and Zhangjiakou, Hebei officially entered the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei “One-Hour Life Circle”. The original three-hour drive between Beijing and Chongli was shortened to 50 minutes. Beijingers can reach Chongli with their feet up.
“Ice and snow are also invaluable assets.” Chongli’s dreamlike changes confirmed the conclusion of General Secretary Xi Jinping.
The new era is an era in which Chinese people pursue their dreams. The Beijing Winter Olympics is a stage for Chinese ice and snow athletes to pursue and realize their dreams.
About one-third of the 109 events in the Beijing Winter Olympics have never been launched in China before. In accordance with General Secretary Xi Jinping’s instructions that “the competition is exciting, and the competition should be brilliant”, Chinese ice and snow sports people take the participation in the entire event and achieve the best results in history as the competition goal, form teams according to all competition events, and start a difficult preparation process. 6 Over the years, great achievements have been made.
In January 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspections in Beijing and Hebei: “Many ice and snow projects in my country have grown from nothing in more than two years, and some projects have reached the world‘s advanced level, which fully reflects the leadership of the party and the national system. , the institutional advantage of concentrating on major events.”
In January 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited some athletes who were preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics when he inspected the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics. Xi Jinping wished everyone good results, and everyone responded with warm applause and shouted, “Please rest assured, General Secretary!” “We are ready!”
He has the ability to invest in great achievements, and he is dedicated to serving the country.
Chinese snowboarder Su Yiming won the Men’s Snowboard Grand Jump Championship in the Freestyle Ski Jumping World Cup in December 2021, becoming the first Chinese Snowboard Grand Jumping World Cup champion. Inspired by the dream of winning glory for the country, he does seven or eight hours of high-intensity snow training almost every training day, sometimes breaking several snowboards a week.
Chinese men’s sled runners Huang Yebo and Peng Junyue switched from track and field to basketball to practice sled — a sport they were completely unfamiliar with. Huang Yebo said that they experienced unimaginable pain and torture. “In the beginning, the car would roll over every time they taxied, and sometimes it rolled over twice in one taxi.” But the dream supported them through the painful stage of stumble, and successfully qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Men’s short track speed skater Wu Dajing, who won a gold medal for the Chinese delegation at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, has been in poor form in 2021, and did not win a World Cup championship until the end of November. Old Ji Fuzheng, aiming for a thousand miles. He said to leave the best form to the Beijing Winter Olympics.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics, Chinese athletes will attack the peak of their careers.
Unity and cooperation share a common destiny
The Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics are an opportunity and stage for the Chinese civilization to exchange and learn from other civilizations in the world, promote the common values of unity, peace, friendship and development for all mankind, and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
On January 4, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized when inspecting the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics that the successful holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics will not only enhance our ability to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Confidence, and it is helpful to demonstrate that our country and nation are committed to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, a good image of sunshine, prosperity, and openness, and to enhance people’s understanding and understanding of China.
On August 22, 2015, when General Secretary Xi Jinping met with Prince Ahmed, President of the International Olympic Association and President of the Olympic Council of Asia, in Beijing, he said that Beijing’s successful bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics will benefit China’s sports and social economy. Development and the development of the World Olympic Movement promote each other, which is conducive to promoting exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese civilization and civilizations of other countries in the world.
In November 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on four major Olympic concepts, emphasizing the promotion of the Olympic spirit, strengthening sports exchanges between China and foreign countries, promoting the integration of Eastern and Western civilizations, and showing a good image of China.
“Green Olympics” focuses on action. The newly built ice sports venues and non-competition venues for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games all meet the three-star green building standard. All competition venues use green electricity. Liu Yumin, director of the Planning and Construction Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said that according to calculations, from the first green electricity transaction in June 2019 to the end of the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games, the green electricity of venues in the three competition areas of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou It is estimated that the use of 400 million kWh can reduce the burning of 128,000 tons of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 320,000 tons. The preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics strictly control costs, and strive to achieve the unity of exciting and frugal events. According to Li Yanling, director of the logistics department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, many Winter Olympics materials are directly delivered to the venues with new energy transportation vehicles, which reduces logistics and carbon emissions.
The four ice venues of the Beijing Winter Olympics use a new carbon dioxide refrigerant, the most environmentally friendly ice-making technology in the world, with carbon emissions approaching zero. Li Jiulin, chief engineer of the “Ice Ribbon” of the National Speed Skating Stadium, said that the design concept of green, low-carbon and sustainable development of the Beijing Winter Olympics venues highlights the consciousness of a community with a shared future for mankind. Samaranch Jr., chairman of the Beijing Winter Olympics Coordination Committee and vice-chairman of the International Olympic Committee, said that the Beijing Winter Olympics will become the “greenest” Olympic Games.
A total of 2.14 million square meters of ecological restoration work has been completed in the Yanqing Division. Before the construction of the competition area, a background survey of the ecological environment was first conducted to draw an “ecological bottom line” for the construction of the competition area, and three principles of “project avoidance, project mitigation, and project compensation” were formulated. A ski run changed construction plans to protect an ancient Rowan elm tree that could not be transplanted. Fu Zhaokun, the person in charge of the snow track construction project, said that in the past, when we built roads, we only had roads in our hearts;
People live up to the green hills, and the green hills will certainly live up to people. This is the implementation of the environmental protection concept of “building a clean and beautiful world” in the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics, which reflects China’s demeanor and responsibility as a world power.
Under the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s concept of “hosting the Olympics for all” and “hosting the Olympics openly”, the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics have gathered talents from all over the world for our use, pooled the wisdom of all parties, pooled the strength of all walks of life, prospered the interests of the world, and built a community with a shared future for mankind. The ideas of “co-discussion, co-construction, and sharing” coincide with each other.
The Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee has always maintained good cooperation with the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, and the International Winter Sports Federation during the preparation process. Absorb domestic and international funds and social forces to participate in the preparatory work. The Genting Ski Resort, which will host some snow sports competitions in the Beijing Winter Olympics, is invested and constructed by Malaysia Genting Group. International companies such as Tianbing, headquartered in Bolzano, Italy, have settled in Zhangjiakou High-tech Zone Ice and Snow Sports Equipment Industrial Park. “We enjoyed the Winter Olympics bonus in Zhangjiakou,” said Pierre Saluso, general manager of Tianbing Ice and Snow Equipment Zhangjiakou Co., Ltd.
There are also 57 specially-appointed experts selected from 18 countries and regions around the world to participate in the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics. Austrian ice hockey expert Harid Springfeld joined the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee in April 2018 to give advice on the preparation of the ice hockey events for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics. He was deeply touched by the concepts of environmental protection and sharing in the long-term planning for the Beijing Winter Olympics. He said: “I think other countries can refer to China’s practice. When China decided to bid for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, it made a plan and made a longer-term plan for the end of the Winter Olympics.”
The Beijing Winter Olympics brought a fantastic “face change” to the Shougang Park, which has amazed the international sports community. An abandoned industrial park left by Shougang’s overall relocation for the Beijing Olympics environmental governance was revived because of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Under the watchful eyes of the giant steel-making facilities steeped in the vicissitudes of history, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee settled in the park, where a number of national teams of winter sports opened new training bases, and the “crystal shoes” of the Winter Olympics ski jumping platform rose to the ground. Since then, the marathon runway has been winding… The surrounding area of Shougang Park, where Phoenix Nirvana has turned into an “internet celebrity check-in place”, has been approved by the International Olympic Committee as the “Beijing Winter Olympic Park”, which mirrors the Beijing Olympic Park.
The changes of Shougang Park have established a Chinese model for the new model of “affordable, profitable and sustainable” Olympic Games proposed by the International Olympic Committee. Every time Bach talks about Shougang Park, he never hesitates to praise it. Once, he even overcame his fear of heights and climbed the No. 3 blast furnace at Shougang. With a panoramic view of the park, Bach said emotionally: “When it comes to sustainable development, you only need to take a look here.”
The international situation is turbulent, and the haze of the new crown epidemic persists. The desire of all mankind to overcome difficulties together and move forward in unity has never been stronger than it is now. The newly added content of the Olympic motto is “more unity”, and the theme slogan of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics “Together to the Future” is the call of the times that conforms to the historical trend and the aspirations of mankind.
Unity and cooperation, a common destiny. This is the beautiful original intention of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and it is also the ultimate ideal of the Olympics.