As people gradually left the brightly lit shopping mall at night, the ice rink welcomed 64-year-old skating coach Liu Wei and his troupe of young students in northwest China's Ningxia.

The relationship between Beijing and winter sports can be traced back to a type of painting called bingxi, which translates to "play on ice".

Rocket science is propelling China's winter sports national program to the next level as the latest in aerodynamic research and technology pushes athletes faster, further and higher for the home Olympics.

German bobsleigh and skeleton athletes heaped praise on the 2022 Beijing sliding track as a challenging masterpiece.

Beijing has made facilities and venues for next year's Winter Olympic Games energy efficient in the hope of continuously improving the city's environment before and during the Games.

Incubated in an art studio, the 2022 Winter Paralympics mascot went through a designing process of 32 versions in more than 300 days, led by Guo Chunfang among a group of artists from Jilin University of Arts.