Since the successful bid for Beijing Winter Olympics, the development of ice and snow sports in Jilin city has also been accelerated.
Xinhua News Agency Changchun, December 19th issue: open board! Practice! Fire! “Beiguo Jiangcheng” retained the “Winter Olympics suspense” with actions
Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Haofei, Duan continued, Jin Xiu
Li Jianrou, the champion of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, came from Jilin city.
The 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics champion Wu Dajing comes from Jilin city.
778 days before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022, will there be the champion of “Made in Jilin” in this competition? In the further future, how many ice and snow talents can be born in the “northern Jiangcheng” located in the hinterland of Northeast China?
Although it will take some time to announce the answer, Jilin city is using actions to prove that the “Winter Olympics suspense” is worth waiting and seeing.
Open the board! Stepping towards a new skiing victory in the northern hemisphere
“I didn’t expect that there are 12 ski resorts in a city!” White, a ski lover from Auckland, sighed with emotion. The last time he came to Northeast China for skiing was 11 years ago. He took a long bus to the scene to have a look. Except for his own snow gear, the hardware facilities were very ordinary. He only ate noodles and simple hot pot, there is no choice for the nearest accommodation. “Now, I feel that there are changes everywhere. I want to play here for a few more days.” He said.
In December, ski resorts in the northern hemisphere were almost completely open, and Jilin City gradually entered the international sequence. Not only snowplayers from southern provinces and cities such as Guangdong, Hunan, Sichuan and Shanghai poured in, snow friends from Southeast Asian countries and even southern hemisphere countries are “online.
Li Zhiyuan, deputy director of Jilin city tourism bureau, introduced that Jilin city is in the same golden latitude zone of ice and snow with Alps and Rocky Mountain. The total area of ski resort in the city is more than 3.56 million square meters, and the total length of snow trail is nearly 100 kilometers, plus hot springs, the comprehensive attraction of tourism products such as rime and the improvement of supporting service systems such as transportation, accommodation and medical treatment have been opened for less than one month this year, the total number of visitors received by Peking University Lake and Songhua Lake Vanke alone reached 219000, a record high.
“Compared with many famous ski resorts in the world, the snow season in Jilin city came earlier and the mountain conditions had obvious advantages. For example, Peking University Lake has a 870-meter mountain drop, it can attract more professionals to play with snow.” Wang Zhizhen, a helicopter skier with 14 years of “Snow Age”, said.
December 19 is the 33rd day of the snow season in Jilin city this year, and the hotels in the main ski resort resort in the city are “hard to find one room”. Huang Zhongrui, marketing manager of Songhua Lake Resort on Vanke, said: “in the snow season this year, we may receive more than 700000 people.”
“Jilin city is constantly improving its reception ability and service level, striving to make progress towards a new world skiing victory, creating a warm ice and snow atmosphere for Beijing Winter Olympics.” Jia Dongping, deputy mayor of Jilin city, said.
Practice! Let “made in Jilin” continue to shine Winter Olympics
although Li Jianrou has been retired for more than 4 years, he has been very busy: busy converting to snowboard; Busy transforming to be the head coach of Hebei short track speed skating team; more importantly, I am busy helping the future with the “doll ice mass” of Jianrou ice and snow sports club in Jilin city.
At the Ice training hall in Jilin city, the reporter saw the ice schedule posted on the wall-since September 27, from 7 to 20:45 every day, it has been occupied by various clubs and sports schools, li Jianrou’s “Doll ice ball” comes here every day to “clock in”. In the 2018-2019 season, more than 500 children who slipped out from here participated in large-scale events and also achieved excellent results of 4 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze at the second National Youth Games.
Wang Peng, the coach of the club, was Li Jianrou’s teammate. He said that children could get in touch with cutting-edge teaching concepts and equipment here. “For example, the arc meter and the knife machine used to be exclusive equipment in the national team. The scale can be accurate to 1‰, and now we can customize skates for our children.” He said.
There are only more than two years left in the preparation period for the Winter Olympics in 2022, and other ice and snow people in Jilin city are also very busy. Qian Fuquan, who has been a ski coach for nearly 20 years, did not expect that a batch of overseas national training teams will be welcomed at home this year-the Four Seasons cross-country ski resort in Beishan, which was put into use in February this year.
Snow slides all the year round, which is rare in Asia and even the world. The ski resort, which was transformed into a bomb shelter, has attracted the national team and 22 local teams to enter. “There are venues for practice throughout the year, which has expanded the talent reserve of cross-country skiing in Jilin city from the original 76 people to more than 500 people.” Qian Fuquan said that cross-country skiing is the mother of winter sports, and the value of the Four Seasons cross-country ski resort in Beishan is self-evident.
Liu Yijun, deputy director of Jilin Sports Bureau, introduced that at present, about 1,500 athletes are being trained in Jilin ice and snow projects, and 58 of them are preparing for the Winter Olympics in the national team. In 2022, Wu Dajing, Han Yutong, Yan Ruxin and Wu Meng all had the strength to make breakthroughs.
Start burning! Winter Olympics in Beijing helped Jilin
In the past 70 years to produce the first barrel of fuel and the first furnace calcium carbide for New China, and it is also a city of ice and snow that has made important contributions to winter sports. Since the first National Winter Games was held in 1959, Jilin city has hosted 4 of the 13 sessions.
Since the successful bid for Beijing Winter Olympics, the development of ice and snow sports in Jilin city has also been accelerated. Driven by “ice and snow sports entering the campus”, children have free snow to slide, free ice to go on, and “hot” expectations in cold weather. The Jixue ski resort, which is about 25 kilometers away from Songhua River, received 18000 students for free in the last snow season. This snow season is expected to exceed 35000. Liang Gang, general manager of the ski resort, said that making less money would make this place the cradle of the Winter Olympic champion.
Wang Yibing, a fifth grade student of Songjiang Experimental Primary School, became an “enthusiast” after only one year of snow “. She said: “Although cross-country skiing is tiring, it is more happy. If there is a skiing class the next day, I may not sleep well the first night. If I suddenly don’t let me ski the next day, I may cry.”
In 2017, the Jilin ice hockey team, which had been disbanded for 18 years, was “reborn” and later became a member of the Silk Road Ice Hockey Super League to go to the international arena. Tan Yi, who served as the Chinese coach of the team, said that more and more high-level events were held, more and more tourists were attracted by activities such as the fog Ice and Snow Festival, and more and more children were involved in ice and snow sports, I feel that the whole city is “burning” through the winter Olympics.
“Winter Olympics in Beijing, experience in Jilin” is the theme of the 4th Jilin snow expo which ended recently. In the view of ice snowman in Jilin city, besides experience, it also helps. “Jilin city is guided by the demand of BOCOG. There are 23 ice and snow related majors in colleges and vocational schools in the city, and more than 3,000 professionals are trained and transported every year. Beihua University also established the ice and snow College and contacted more than 30 units at home and abroad to form the ice and snow education alliance to provide talent support for the Winter Olympics.” Liu Yijun said.