Editor's note: As early as about 10,000 years ago, the inhabitants of Altay in Xinjiang have invented skis, which is also the earliest record in the history of human skiing. Since then, human beings have begun to challenge the limits to ride the snowy land, and the fate of China and ice and snow has long been predestined. Today's Winter Olympics belong to each of our countrymen, you who are moved by the "ice pier", you who participate in ice and snow sports, you who wave the flag for the Winter Olympics, and you who choose green travel... Whether inside or outside the closed loop, you and I are witnesses of the Winter Olympics!
RedNet Moment reporter Chen Minying reported from Beijing
On February 4, the world-renowned 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics made a magnificent start.
The "Open Winter Olympics" theme flower bed in the northwest corner of Xidan, Beijing, takes the emblems of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games as the main scenery, and is equipped with ribbons, snowflakes, lanterns and other elements to perfectly integrate the Winter Olympics with the Chinese Spring Festival. (Infographic)
Under the background that the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still spreading globally, the Beijing Winter Olympics, as the first global comprehensive sports event to be held as scheduled since the outbreak of the epidemic, the strict epidemic prevention work, the distinction and management inside and outside the closed loop have made athletes, coaches and relevant personnel from all over the world feel an unprecedented sense of security.
Does the closed loop separate us? Of course not! We are all witnesses to the Beijing Winter Olympics.
An overnight hit "ice pier"
"Red" is our enthusiasm for the Winter Olympics
The first flow king of the 2022 Chinese New Year - it is the "ice pier".
Zhang Wenquan, a young man in Beijing, has collected more than 50 "ice piers" at the moment when it is difficult to find a "pier", including many limited editions.
Zhang Wenquan's collection of ice piers.
As early as the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Zhang Wenquan, who was still in junior high school, watched the Chinese Olympic athletes sweat and work TV, and he had great enthusiasm for the Olympic Games and sports. This enthusiasm not only made him a volunteer for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, but also made him full of great interest in the cultural and creative products around the Olympic Games.
From Olympic badges, certificates, tickets, commemorative coins, to torch models, venue models, all kinds of mascots... A house of more than 30 square meters in a hutong in Beijing's Xicheng District has been turned into a small "Olympic museum" by him. Although he is not on the field, who can deny that he is a witness to the Winter Olympics.
Liu Chaoying, an old sportsman who has worked in the General Administration of Sports for 24 years, has cooperated with the community after retirement and set up a sports exhibition hall in the community.
In addition to the rare "ice piers" and "snow melting", he also collected the precious auspicious cloud torch of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, as well as various Olympic badges. When he held the "ice pier" in his right hand and held the Xiangyun torch on the left and right to shout for Beijing, although he was not in the arena, who could deny that he was a witness to the Winter Olympics.
Citizens and tourists lining up on Wangfujing Street to buy ice piers.
Whether it is the thousands of meters of long queues on Wangfujing Street day and night, or the countless netizens who are squatting in the online store on time to buy, or the masses who try to let their relatives and friends buy on their behalf, to seek the meaning of a "pier", it is not only to have a cute toy, but more importantly, to witness the perfect integration of the Winter Olympics and Chinese culture.
People who can't buy the ice piers take photos with the store displays.
As long as you have moved your heart for the pier, stopped in front of the Olympic landscape, and are proud and satisfied with this Winter Olympics, although you are not in the arena, you are also a witness to this Winter Olympics.
A green beijing traffic
"Green" is our Winter Olympic self-discipline
Under the pressure of the epidemic, Beijing is also facing the dual pressure of running a world-awaited Winter Olympics and ensuring a good year for the masses.
The world is looking forward to China, and China is ready! Both the organizers of the Winter Olympics and the general public are making their own efforts for this event.
The reporter learned from the 2022 Beijing News Center that during the Winter Olympics, the number of support personnel in all fields of Beijing's urban operation reached 180,000, of which more than 50,000 people directly participated in the operation and environmental protection of the Winter Olympics. Maybe he is just an ordinary traffic policeman who guides traffic at a junction outside the closed loop, maybe he is just an ordinary worker in charge of security at the subway station entrance, he may even be just a cleaner in charge of a certain section of the road, but who can say that he is not a witness to the Winter Olympics.
Olympic lane markings.
The whole city is running in an orderly manner, and the streets and alleys are full of the joy and peace of the Winter Olympics and the Spring Festival. The section of the road to the venue is clearly marked with the special lanes for the Olympic Games; the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway connecting the three divisions of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou strictly distinguishes between the inside and outside of the closed loop; the vicinity of the competition venue, at any time according to the needs of the game, adjust the closed-loop range...
Winter Olympics special train.
Flexible management, so that the smooth progress of the event and the normal life of the masses do not disturb each other.
The reporter sat on an online car, walked around the venues, and was surprised to find that none of the non-Olympic-related vehicles occupied the Olympic lanes, and the citizens only stopped to look at the venues and take a group photo.
The Winter Olympics meet the New Year, the festive season is a grand event, open the map, greet the reporter is full of green, this is the efforts of the organizers for the Winter Olympics, but also the ordinary people for the Winter Olympics to show self-discipline.
As long as you have avoided an Olympic channel once and consciously stopped outside the closed loop, that is the effort to pay for the Winter Olympics, and you are the witness of the Winter Olympics.
A wind and fire of ice and snow sports
The "fire" is our Winter Olympics responsibility
The reporter learned from the 2022 Beijing News Center that during the Spring Festival holiday, the ice and snow venues received a total of 740,000 people, and there are now more than 5,000 registered youth ice hockey players in Beijing.
In fact, not only in the northern regions such as Beijing, but also in the typical southern regions such as Hunan, ice and snow sports and related industries have also developed under the impetus of the Winter Olympics.
In May 2020, the Affiliated Primary School of Zhuzhou No. 2 Middle School was awarded the "National Youth Campus Ice and Snow Characteristic Sports School" and the "Beijing 2020 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Olympic Education Demonstration School" by the Ministry of Education. Roller skating is a compulsory physical education class for every student, and roller skating has become the most exciting scene at the school sports day.
Students from the Affiliated Primary School of Zhuzhou No. 2 Middle School participating in roller skating. (Photo courtesy of Zhuzhou No.2 Middle School Affiliated Primary School)
Around the Spring Festival, various winter vacation ice project enlightenment classes and intensive training classes are extremely hot. Ice and snow sports venues represented by the real ice rink of Hunan Changsha International Financial Center and the happy snow area of Changsha Xiangjiang Happy City allow children to play a piece of ice hockey and experience a figure skating. This has also become the most "in" choice for parents this winter.
In the context of "double subtraction", with the blessing of the Winter Olympics, the development of ice and snow-themed sports projects is not only a new attempt by many schools to explore the path of sports and education integration, but also a new choice for parents to enjoy. Ice and snow venues with the participation of the whole people have also blossomed everywhere in Hunan.
Xiangjiang Happy City (data map)
Whether it is the Changsha Xiangjiang Happy City Happy Snow Resort, which has the world's fifth largest indoor ski resort, or the Ice and Snow World built by Hunan Zhangjiajie Ice and Snow World Tourism Development Co., Ltd. with a cost of about 600 million yuan, or the snow-white outdoor ski resort in Liuyang Mountain, Hunan... The goal of bringing 300 million people to the ice and snow has long been achieved. And you, as long as you have ever stepped on the ice and snow in any form, are a part of the Responsibility of the Chinese Winter Olympics.
Inside the closed loop is hard work and dedication, outside the closed loop is enthusiasm and self-discipline, and every Chinese is a witness to the Winter Olympics!