On January 3, Beijing Awards Plaza, one of the non-competition venues of the Beijing Winter Olympics, conducted a full-element exercise of the award ceremony. This is the first time that the Beijing Awards Plaza has a makeup drill for the award ceremony, and the plaza now has the conditions for running during the competition.
It is reported that the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games will have award squares for different events in Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou. According to Wei Xiaomei, deputy director of the media of the Beijing Awards Plaza Operation Team, the Awards Plaza is an important cultural feature that distinguishes the Winter Olympics from the Summer Olympics.
Beijing Awards Plaza
Beijing Awards Plaza is located between the National Stadium (Bird's Nest) and the National Aquatics Center (Ice Cube), a temporary facility built on a flat square. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, spectators, registered journalists, etc. will witness the highlight moments of the 32 winter Olympics winners in beijing.
The main stage of Beijing Awards Plaza adopts the design concept of "beauty and coexistence", which embodies the spiritual connotation of "the beauty of each other, the beauty of beauty, the beauty of beauty and commonality, and the unity of the world" in traditional Chinese culture.
Qin Zheng, general director of the beijing awards square ceremony performance, said that the overall design of the stage is creative, and the visual elements based on the "igloo" are made, and the entire roof of the "igloo" presents the shape of snowflakes. Combine the background of the "Ice Cube" behind you to form an elemental symbol of ice and snow. The whole stage design has the characteristics of ice and snow, but also the warmth of home, symbolizing the beautiful sincerity of Beijing to take the Winter Olympics as an opportunity to invite guests from all over the world to spend the Chinese New Year. It embodies the beautiful vision of the global human family of beauty and coexistence, harmony and symbiosis.
The Beijing Awards Plaza will run from February 6 to 19, a total of 14 days, and the award ceremony for 1 to 4 projects is expected to be held every day, and the award ceremony in Zhangjiakou Awards Plaza will alternate around the world.
Zhangjiakou Awards Square
On December 25, 2021, the stage of the Awards Plaza of Zhangjiakou For the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games was delivered.
The Zhangjiakou Awards Plaza Stage is located in the ice and snow town of Chongli Prince City. The stage design scheme takes "Passion for Dreams" as the theme, takes the snow project in Zhangjiakou Division as the starting point, combines the graceful posture of skiing, outlines the flexible stage form with very dynamic lines, supplemented by snow mountain shape embellishment, which fully meets the natural conditions of the venue and the characteristics of the snow project in Zhangjiakou.
Winter Paralympic Games Yanqing Awards Plaza
On October 20, 2021, the temporary facilities of the Yanqing Awards Plaza for the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games officially started construction, and the all-factor drill test is expected to be completed by the end of January 2022. This place will host the medal awarding ceremony of 27 events in the Yanqing Division of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games.
During the Winter Paralympic Games, the Yanqing Paralympic Awards Plaza will operate for 7 days to host the medal awarding ceremony for 27 events in the Yanqing area of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games.
The awards and flag raising for each project are in the awards square
Wei Xiaomei said that the awards plaza is an important cultural feature that distinguishes the Winter Olympics from the Summer Olympics.
Immediately after the Summer Olympic Games, an award ceremony was held for the winning athletes at the competition venue. After the Winter Olympic Games, a ceremony to award souvenirs is held in the arena, and then to the award square specially set up by the Winter Olympics to hold a grand award ceremony for the award-winning athletes, awarding medals, raising the national flag and playing the national anthem to the winning athletes. Before and after the award ceremony, there are cultural performances and other cultural display activities.
Source: Beijing Daily client (reporter Wu Dong Cheng Gong), CCTV news client
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