The countdown to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has entered the final sprint stage, and the preparations have entered the final sprint stage. Zhao Weidong, spokesman for the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, recently said that the current construction of venues and infrastructure is completed and running well as scheduled. All 12 competition venues were completed and fully operational by the International Winter Sports Organization Certification. The rise of the new venue and the gorgeous transformation of the old venue are inseparable from the investment of funds, which is behind the silent support of the sports lottery public welfare fund.
The Sports Lottery Public Welfare Fund supports the construction of Winter Olympic venues
Zhao Weidong introduced: "We have held ten international test competitions, two domestic test activities and three international training week activities, and more than 2,000 foreign athletes, team officials and international technical officials have come to China, and all parties are very satisfied with our venues and infrastructure." ”
Making full use of the venues of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is a highlight of the Beijing Winter Olympics. It is understood that a total of 39 venues were used in the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, of which 10 used existing venues. The "Bird's Nest" will become the location of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the "Water Cube" will become the "Ice Cube" through the conversion of water ice, in addition, the National Gymnasium, Wukesong Sports Center, Capital Gymnasium and other venues that shined during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have been transformed and now upgraded to "double Olympic venues", becoming a model for "repeated use, comprehensive utilization and lasting utilization" of Olympic venues.
As the only new ice competition venue for the Beijing Winter Olympics, the National Speed Skating Hall is figuratively known as the "Ice Ribbon", with an ice surface area of 12,000 square meters. The venue uses a CO2 transcritical direct-cooling ice system and is the world's first Winter Olympic speed skating venue to adopt this technology. This technology is currently the most environmentally friendly ice-making technology in the world, and carbon emissions are close to zero.
As the Beijing Winter Olympics draw closer, other venues are finally ready to wait for athletes from around the world to join the long-awaited ice and snow feast and realize their Olympic dreams.
Support the construction of Olympic venues, and there are sports lottery public welfare funds everywhere. According to statistics, since 2001, the lottery public welfare fund has set up special funds to support the construction and preparation of the Beijing Olympic Games, and by 2008, 2.75 billion yuan of the lottery public welfare fund with the sports lottery as an important part of the lottery public welfare fund has been used for the construction and operation of sports venues in the Beijing Olympic Games. The Bird's Nest Stadium and the Water Cube Swimming Pool, which we are familiar with, are all supported by the Sports Lottery Public Welfare Fund. In 2020, the Sports Lottery Public Welfare Fund used 512 million yuan for the construction of major Olympic venues and facilities, and also made important contributions to the construction of Winter Olympic venues.
Contribute to the increase of the snow sports population
While helping athletes prepare for the Olympic Games, the ice and snow venues are also an important carrier of the "Ice and Snow Benefit Plan", which has contributed to "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports" and increasing the population of ice and snow sports.
At the beginning of its bid to host the Winter Olympics, China made a solemn promise to the world: "To bring 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports." This goal is not only the essence of the Olympic spirit, but also the vision of driving the people to strengthen their health.
Wearing ski suits and pedaling skis, he sped down from the highest point of the slope, sometimes taking off and down, sometimes turning sideways, stirring up snowflakes splashing... This is the scene of ski lovers exercising on the slopes. Songyuan Ice Sports Center, Jilin Beishan Four Seasons Cross-country Ski Resort, Heilongjiang Yabuli Sports Training Base, Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center, Qinghai Doba Plateau Sports Training Base... With the support of the Sports Lottery Public Welfare Fund, the ice rink snow field has flourished throughout the country, driving people everywhere to devote themselves to ice and snow sports, and gradually becoming an important piece of the puzzle for building a sports power.
Yabuli Ski Resort in Heilongjiang is the largest comprehensive ski resort in China and has successfully hosted a number of international and national high-level events. From 2014 to 2018, Yabuli Sports Training Base received more than 410 million yuan from the central and provincial financial appropriations, all of which came from the Sports Lottery Public Welfare Fund. In 2020, the 14th National Winter Games was held in Inner Mongolia, and the "14th Winter" project was set against the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which was also a drill to run the Winter Olympics, with more than 166 million yuan of sports lottery public welfare funds used to support the construction of the "14th Winter" venues, becoming an important place for local people to participate in ice and snow sports.
On December 16, 2021, the speed skating hall of Tianjin Jizhou National Ice Project Training Base was officially unveiled, and the total investment of the first phase of the "Aerial Speed Skating Hall" with a total construction area of 19,900 square meters was 216 million yuan, and the total investment of the second phase of the project was 240 million yuan, and the source of funds was all the sports lottery public welfare fund. After the official unveiling of the speed skating hall, the "Ice and Snow Benefit Plan National Demonstration Activity" was also opened in Tianjin, and the National College Curling League was subsequently unveiled at the base, and 16 college curling teams from all over the country will also contribute to helping ice and snow sports enter the campus and expand the ice and snow sports population while enjoying the first-class venue hardware facilities of the Jizhou National Ice Project Training Base.
The Beijing Winter Olympics, which unites the national spirit and the hearts of hundreds of millions of people, is about to open, and the China Sports Lottery will continue to shoulder the mission of being a national public welfare lottery, continuously injecting sports power into ice and snow sports, so that more and more people can form a "frozen fate".