In 2002 at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games, Yang Yang became China’s first Winter Olympics gold medalist. Since then, her name has been written into the history of China’s winter sports, and she has become a legend.
An online exhibition was unveiled recently to promote the 2022 Winter Olympics under the auspices of the China National Tourist Office of New York and the New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority.
With advanced technologies in place, Beijing is prepared to host a smart and safe 2022 Winter Olympic Games despite the COVID-19 pandemic still casting a pall over the global sports scene.
In recent years, many people like Chen have taken up winter sports or acquired new expertise related to the Winter Games.
High-tech devices and facilities with multiple purposes are being developed across China ahead of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, as sports technology laboratories and programs are set up in key universities and stadiums.
Although China is a latecomer to the world of winter sports, it has pledged to have "300 million people involved in snow and ice sports events" while it is preparing for the Winter Olympics.
"Crouching inside a police vehicle on a snow-covered mountain, six police in Chongli, the ski competition venue of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, stayed on duty overnight at quarantines at a checkpoint leading to the ski community," wrote officer Liu Haiyan in his work log.
He spent a lot of time learning about steel, visiting many steel processing enterprises, and finally made breakthroughs in technology previous monopolized by foreign companies.
