Green Olympic Games, paving the background of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games

The Beijing Winter Olympics is the first Olympic Games to practice the Olympic Agenda 2020 from bidding, preparation to hosting. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, the vivid practice of the green Olympic concept was highly praised by the participating delegations and the international community.

Achieve sustainable use of the venue

The National Aquatics Center became the first venue in the world to complete the "water ice conversion", the Capital Gymnasium changed from volleyball to holding ice events, and the Wukesong Sports Center completed the "ice basket conversion" in 6 hours... A number of Venues for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games have been transformed and the sustainable use of Olympic venues has been realized.

After the first race at Ice Cube, Swiss curler Yanni Perrett exclaimed: "This venue is so beautiful and the ice surface is so good that I enjoy playing here. When he heard that the venue had been converted from a swimming pool, Victoria Pensinger, an American curler who participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, called it "amazing."

In the former Shougang Industrial Park, a ski jumping platform was built. American freestyle skier Nicholas Goper believes that "this is a very successful case" when it comes to the reuse of industrial heritage. Canadian athlete Evan McEkellen said: "The venue is very wide, everything is very comfortable and I feel very safe. "The perfect integration of the Winter Olympic culture and the Shougang Industrial Site fully reflects the concept of sustainable development of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Jabala, a member of Egypt's Foreign Affairs Committee and columnist for Pyramid, said: "The Beijing Winter Olympics will make full use of existing venues and facilities, and this practice is worth promoting at major international sporting events." ”

"The Beijing Winter Olympics maximally used the venues of the 2008 Summer Olympics, which shows that the 'Olympic legacy' of 2008 can be continued." IOC President Bach told this reporter that the venue facilities of the Beijing Winter Olympics will create more convenient conditions for the development of Ice and Snow Sports in China.

Robert Steger, a geographer at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, believes that the Beijing Winter Olympics have ignited the enthusiasm of the general public for ice and snow sports, which will be conducive to the maintenance and management of infrastructure such as new Winter Olympic venues and better returns.

100% of the Winter Olympic venues use green electricity

In Beijing's Yanqing District Winter Olympic Forest Park, many trees are pasted with an exclusive two-dimensional code "ID card", sweep will find that they were transplanted during the construction of Yanqing Competition Area. The construction of venues in Yanqing Division adheres to the principle of "avoidance" as the first principle, and tries to protect native trees on the spot, and if it is really impossible to avoid, close-site protection or ex-situ protection measures are taken.

Renewable energy sources such as wind and light in Zhangbei were converted into green electricity and delivered to three competition areas in Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, lighting up the Venues of the Beijing Winter Olympics and realizing 100% of the conventional energy of all venues using green electricity. Four venues, including the National Speed Skating Hall, use new CO2 direct cooling ice making technology to create the "fastest ice".

Ben Yong, vice chairman of the Thai Chinese Chamber of Commerce, said, "At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the torch was lit in a unique and innovative way, allowing us to see China's innovation and action to depict the future with green, and China's green Olympic concept showed mankind the infinite possibilities for the future."

The winter Olympic snow venue uses intelligent snowmaking, which can save about 20% of water consumption compared with traditional snowmaking. John Eliasch, president of the International Ski Federation, said that the skiing project of the Winter Olympics is carried out in nature, which means that skiers shoulder the heavy responsibility of protecting the environment, and the International Snow Federation fully supports China's green Olympic concept.

Sarah Lewis, former secretary general of the International Ski Federation, said that the construction process of the National Alpine Ski Center "Snow Flying Swallow" and the National Snowmobile Bobsleigh Center "Snow Tour Dragon" reflects the concept of sustainable development, and China has also built a high-speed railway to Yanqing and Chongli to facilitate the people's "ski excursion" and more closely link leisure sports with the ice and snow sports industry.

Christine Bie, a researcher at the Schiller Institute, a French think tank, said that driven and influenced by the Winter Olympics, more and more Chinese people prefer green and low-carbon living habits, which is of positive significance to the global carbon emission reduction cause. Carlos Martinez, co-editor of the British "Friends of Socialist China" website, said that the Beijing Winter Olympics is the first Olympic Games in the world to use renewable energy entirely to power all venues, "which makes the world aware of China's firm determination to deal with climate change."

Uphold the principle of respect for nature

Tamara Mikhailova, president of the Russian State University of Sport youth and tourism, pointed out that the construction of all facilities of the Beijing Winter Olympics adheres to the principle of respecting the environment and not violating the balance of nature.

"The hosting of the Beijing Winter Olympics has not brought environmental pressure to China, and the green Olympic concept has sent a positive signal to the world that the holding of large-scale events and ecological protection can be balanced." Martin Garcia, general manager of the Chilean National Ski Federation, said.

Ben Yong said that while protecting the ecological environment, to achieve high-quality coordinated development of green, low-carbon and circular economy, and to use scientific and technological innovation to solve the contradiction between resources and environment and development, it will help promote the construction of a beautiful China and achieve green and high-quality development, and provide a Chinese solution for handling the relationship between people and nature, development and protection.

Martin Garcia said that the Green Olympic Games fully reflects the expectations and efforts of building a community with a shared future for mankind, demonstrates the vision of moving towards a better future together, and contributes Chinese wisdom to the world's common response to climate change. Mary Sarois, Director of Enterprise and Sustainability at the IOC, stressed that sustainable development and green action are vital to the future of the Olympic Games, and that "the Beijing Winter Olympics will be an important milestone for the future in promoting the development of the Olympic Movement".

Source/People's Daily (2022-02-11 11 edition)

Editor/Li Guangqing Editor-in-Charge/He Zizi Producer/Wang Zhiming

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