In early summer, the JingbeiBeituo Mountain is a thousand miles away. The sea of clouds churns, crossing the mountains, and the beauty is picturesque. Accompanied by three or two friends, take the longest alpine ropeway in China, "flying to the 'Snow Flying Swallow', a panoramic view of the mountains".
On April 29, the Yanqing Olympic Park, an important heritage of the Yanqing Competition Area of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, was grandly opened for four seasons.
Known as the "truly unparalleled" Beijing Winter Olympics, Yanqing, one of the host places, has left not only an Olympic park, but also a national ski tourism resort, a group of ice and snow professionals, a growing international "circle of friends", and the most beautiful winter Olympic city with ecology, civilization and happiness.
Yanqing Winter Olympic Village. Photo by Pan Zhiwang, a reporter of this newspaper
Rise to prominence as a ski resort under Mount Haituo
Open the world map, there are countless world-renowned ski resorts: Chamonix in France, St. Moritz in Switzerland, Hokkaido in Japan... Many of them were once the sites of the Winter Olympics. Beijing Yanqing will also be among them.
After the conclusion of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, with the approval of the International Olympic Committee, the Yanqing Competition Area, one of the host venues, was listed as "Yanqing Olympic Park". During the "May Day" holiday, many Beijing citizens went all the way north, benyuan to taste the "Winter Olympic Experience Season", enjoyed the magnificence of "Snow Flying Swallow" and "Snow Dragon", punched in the Winter Olympic Champion Room, and posted Gu Ailing's same pie on social networks.
Standing on the top of Haituo Mountain at 2,198 meters and looking at the venues covered by lush green curtains, Bi Chongming, vice chairman of the National Alpine Ski Co., Ltd., is full of achievements. "After 7 years of preparation, Yanqing Has attracted the world's attention. Today, this 'mountain forest stadium group' has been left to the people for a long time, which is a rich gift from the Olympic Games to us. ”
Yanqing Olympic Park Sightseeing Ropeway. Photo by Duan Xuefeng
As an important heritage of the Winter Olympic Games, Yanqing Olympic Park can be called "international first-class". Riding the 4,880-meter longest sightseeing ropeway in China, climbing to the top of Haituo Mountain, the second highest peak in Beijing, Mr. Gong, a citizen, was full of praise, "'Snow Flying Swallow' is more spectacular than what you see on TV!" The "snow flying swallow" in his mouth is the National Alpine Ski Center. Although the season has passed the summer, the snow has not completely melted during the race, and 7 white tracks pour down from the top of the mountain, like flying swallows and momentum.
At the foot of the mountain, the "Snow Dragon" is equally breathtaking. Some people climb the high point to directly overlook the world's first bobsleigh track with a 360-degree slalom, and some people take a panoramic view along the 1.9-kilometer rooftop sightseeing road to feel the ultimate charm of the Winter Olympics "Snow F1". Not far away, the Yanqing Winter Olympic Village was praised by IOC President Bach as "the most beautiful Winter Olympic Village". Nowadays, the athletes who are popular during the game have the same "Winter Olympic Smart Bed" and special dishes are all unveiled in an authentic way, and tourists are competing to punch the clock.
"Snow Dragon" and Yanqing Winter Olympic Village. Photo by Wang Shiqi
If the Yanqing Olympic Park is full of "fast and furious" heartbeat, then the Haituo national ski tourism resort with yanqing Olympic Park as the center makes this heartbeat have the possibility of galloping.
In January this year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the first batch of national ski tourism resorts, and Beijing Yanqing Haituo was among them. Yanqing Haituo Ski Tourism Resort covers a total area of 91.3 square kilometers, in addition to part of the Yanqing Olympic Park, it will also include the surrounding Vanke Shijinglong Ski Resort, Yudu Mountain Scenic Area, etc., is committed to attracting the widest range of ski enthusiasts, creating the highest quality ski hall in China, is an important part of the Beijing-Zhang sports and cultural tourism belt.
In the 2022-2023 snow season, people come to Yanqing Haituo Ski Tourism Resort, not only to watch international events in "Snow Flying Swallow" and "Snow Dragon", but also to challenge themselves in the newly built 220,000 square meters of public snow resort at that time, and to fly freely in the first, middle and advanced 10 ski trails of Vanke Shijinglong Ski Resort, and the snow sculptures and ice and snow parks in Yudu Mountain Scenic Area will also be endlessly enjoyable.
"Not only that, Yanqing Haituo Ski Tourism Resort welcomes guests in all seasons, skiing in winter, sightseeing, hiking, ziplining, rock climbing, camping, cross-country, etc. in spring, summer and autumn, people carry out mountain sports, outdoor sports, health vacations, entertainment and leisure here, and open a new and beautiful life." Bi Chongming said that like internationally renowned ski resorts such as St. Moritz in Switzerland, Yanqing Haituo Ski Resort is not only a scenic spot, but also tries to lead a themed lifestyle.
A grand event ignites the enthusiasm of a city of ice and snow
In the past two years, every snow season, there are always masters in Yanqing's major snow fields: "snow flying" on high-grade slopes, plough turns, parallel turns... One by one, the thrilling and dashing and handsome posture attracted the attention of the whole audience, and the cheers continued. These experts are not ordinary ski enthusiasts, they have their own identities: some are bobsled referees, some are alpine ski referees, some are Swiss national professional ski instructors...
It seems that the "handsome" of professional snow parks is not unusual. But the excitement is still to come -
When they take off their helmets and masks and go forward to talk a few times, you will find that these masters are actually natives of Yanqing, and just a few years ago, they were just farmers, pastry chefs, social workers, etc., and their understanding of ice and snow sports was almost blank.
Yanqing Winter Olympic Village welcomes tourists to punch in. Photo by Pan Zhiwang, a reporter of this newspaper
From xiaobai to master, this somewhat magical collective skill transition is due to the "100,000-person training" that Yanqing has carried out for free for the whole district since 2018. In the past four years, this program has trained 101,600 people, 7,322 people have obtained vocational skills certificates such as ice makers and ski instructors, and more than 1,400 young people in Yanqing have eaten "ice and snow rice", which has started a butterfly change in life.
Li Wei is one of the best. 40-year-old Li Wei, originally an ordinary Yanqing social worker, 5 years ago the Winter Olympics preparations are in full swing, like to challenge himself, he always thinks about what to do, "and his daughter-in-law soft grinding hard bubble bought a set of equipment, the result of the first snow, wrestling to doubt life!" He laughed and reminisced about the past.
Relying on the strength of not accepting defeat, signing up for the "100,000-person training", Li Wei successively obtained the alpine skiing second-level referee certificate, etc., and became a ski instructor and referee. In 2019, on the recommendation of the Yanqing District Sports Bureau, he signed up for the training course for domestic technical officials in the bobsleigh project. "When I went to see that it was all English teaching, I was stupid, and I told the teacher that I couldn't understand it, and the teacher said: 'You are here on behalf of Yanqing'. Hearing this, I was instantly stressed, but also full of motivation. ”
1975 meters, is the length of the National Bobsleigh Center "Snow Dragon" track; one thousandth of a second, is the smallest unit of timekeeping for bobsleigh events. Every value related to the bobsleigh competition, Li Wei is familiar with it... Relying on facing difficulties and practicing diligently, Li Wei finally qualified as a referee in the bobsleigh project and showed yanqing people's professional style at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Also because of the Winter Olympics surpassing himself is Chen Chen. Chen Chen, who was a veterinarian, passed the "big training", obtained the Swiss National Professional Ski Instructor Certificate, and passed the Alpine Skiing National Referee Examination with excellent results, becoming one of the few alpine skiing professionals in Yanqing.
Like Li Wei and Chen Chen, there are many changes in life because of the Winter Olympics: Yang Qilang Enge set up the first farmers' ski team in Yanqing, and more than 60 peasant boys enthusiastically joined and became ski instructors; Wang Shicun, a pastry chef in Yanqing, became an ice maker of the "ice ribbon" through "big training"; Yan Qingsheng, a "post-95" boy, became a safety protector in the equipment department of the "Xuefeiyan" event... Among the young people in Yanqing who ate the "ice and snow meal", there were 281 ice and snow coaches and 126 referees, 36 domestic technical officials on snowmobiles, bobsleighs and alpine skiing, and 116 people who obtained the Swiss National Professional Ski Instructor Certificate.
Do not reject the crowd, the party is the river and the sea. In the post-Winter Olympic era, Yanqing's ice and snow industry will usher in prosperity and development, and these local talents who thrive on ice and snow will make full use of each other and display their talents in the vast world.
As Chen Chen said: "The Winter Olympics have come to an end, but my life dream has just begun." ”
Upgraded XidaZhuangke Village. Photo by Li Yao, a reporter of this newspaper
"Ice and snow fever" to make up for the shortcomings of global tourism
After getting off the Jingli Expressway and driving into the southern gate of Yanqing, the words "Xia Du" on the Yushui River Bridge are particularly conspicuous. This is Yanqing's long-standing reputation, and its meaning is self-evident: the mountains and rivers are blue, the climate is cool, and it is a resort to escape the summer heat.
Yanqing is a tourist region, however, compared with the three seasons of spring, summer and autumn, winter is quite depressed: in addition to the well-known "Longqingxia Ice Lantern", there are only a few places to play and enjoy. The preparation of the Winter Olympics has brought "ice and snow", and the "beautiful summer capital" has since had another well-known name - "the most beautiful Winter Olympic City". Throughout the year, winter, once the off-season of tourism, has gradually become the hottest season.
At the foot of Haituo Mountain, on the southwest side of the "Snow Dragon", in the embrace of the mountain, dozens of townhouses stretch for nearly 100 meters according to the mountain. The stacked layers, sloping roofs, and "zigzag" staircases exude the elegance of a European-style town; the blue-gray brick walls and stone textures also explain the simplicity of Chinese villages. This is the new home of more than 110 villagers in Xidazhuangke Village, Zhangshanying Town, and is also a boutique accommodation group for Haituo Ski Tourist Resort.
Xida Zhuangke Village is the closest village to the Yanqing Competition Area of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and in 2019, with the construction of the competition area, the village started to upgrade and renovate. On May Day this year, the villagers successively received the keys to their new homes. "Depending on the area of the homestead, some villagers have chosen villas, some have chosen flat floors, and basically every household has more than one or two hundred square meters." Xu Jianxi, secretary of the party branch of Xidazhuangke Village, said.
Living in a new home is only one of the dividends of the Winter Olympics, and Xu Jianxi and the villagers have a grander goal: tourists to play on Haituo Mountain, eat and live in the village, just like foreign resort towns! The blueprint has been drawn: "In addition to the family's living, each family has a 60-square-meter apartment, and everyone is ready to take it out, along with the new house with a small population and cannot live, it is handed over to the company for operation." When the time comes, everyone can live in a new house, find employment in the mountains or enterprises, and get more in one fell swoop. ”
At present, Xu Zhensheng, a villager who loves skiing, has already rubbed his fists, "When the Volkswagen Snow Field opens at the end of this year, I am ready to set up a ski school, do ski training, snowboard maintenance, and make our 'holiday town' flourish." ”
Looking at the whole territory of Yanqing, the ice and snow "bubbled" up hot air everywhere. In the snow season of 2021-2022, the "Winter Olympics" boutique homestay of the Black Dragon Temple after Zhangshanying Town is "difficult to find". "Ice piers" and "snow melting" doll pillows, imitation of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games national flag tandem landscape, curling board games, etc., 7-year-old "Olympic fan" Lu Shuai played here.
In recent years, according to regional characteristics, Yanqing has built a number of "World Garden People's Homes", "Winter Olympics People's Homes", "Great Wall People's Homes" and "Shanshui People's Homes" near the venues of the World Garden Games and the Winter Olympic Games, badaling Town in the south and Pearl Spring Township in the north, respectively, to achieve the global layout of boutique homestays. During the Winter Olympics, the number of boutique homestay tourists and tourism revenue in the whole region both hit a record high, an increase of about 366% and 574% respectively compared with the same period in 2019.
Last year, Liu Wenhao and his wife, a foreigner, opened a homestay in Dingjiapu Village near the Yanqing Olympic Park, "The north of the village is adjacent to Yudu Mountain, and the window can be seen in the Yingmeng Temple on the mountain, which is a scene all year round!" ”
Ice and snow are also golden mountains and silver mountains. With Haituo Ski Tourism Resort, with boutique homestays scattered all over the world, with a number of ski resorts that continue to be upgraded and transformed... The shortcomings of the former winter tourism have been completed at once. Xu Zhensheng and Liu Wenhao look forward to the post-Winter Olympic era, the most beautiful Winter Olympic City will usher in the development of full-time, all-round and all-season tourism.
More international events extend an "olive branch" A winter Olympics will make the world "see" Yanqing.
During the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, 806 athletes from all over the world competed at the top of the sea. IOC President Bach has come to Yanqing many times to watch the competition at the National Alpine Ski Center "Xuefeiyan", and he gave a thumbs up and said, "The venue is very good!" Is world class! Yanqing Winter Olympic Village received dozens of handwritten letters of commendation from athletes from all over the world. During the entire Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, yanqing received a total of 2,432 people from the International Olympic Committee and individual organizations and members of the Olympic family with meticulous care and warmth.
A data survey shows that the international awareness rate of Yanqing Division was only 8.6% in 2018, and since then it has increased year by year to 54.63% in 2022, Yanqing's international popularity is soaring all the way, and the international "circle of friends" can be said to be getting bigger and bigger.
Not only has it gained global popularity, after 7 years of preparation for the Winter Olympics, Yanqing has mastered the rules of international competitions and formed a mature working model. In the holding, 340 people directly participated in the operation of the event, and 34 Yanqing technical officials went through the winter Olympics to form a high-level professional talent team to ensure the international top events.
A series of high-tech applications at the international leading level have become valuable assets for Yanqing's high-quality development. For the first time, Yanqing Has realized the "minute-level, 100-meter-level" meteorological forecast service system, which has reached the highest standard of previous Winter Olympic Games; drones and 200 hydrogen energy buses have been escorted by "air-ground joint"; 5G+8K technology has provided high-quality off-site viewing experience; aerosol virus monitoring, multi-sign sensing equipment and other robots have been fully applied; and the digital RMB payment system is convenient for foreigners to consume and shop... The achievements of these "Science and Technology Winter Olympics" will go to the application field of urban development and become the source of power for Beijing to build an international science and technology innovation center.
Thanks to international and high-level facilities and guarantees, in February this year, the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport, the Yanqing District Government, the International Snowmobile Federation and other five parties signed a memorandum of understanding, agreeing to hold the International Snowmobile Federation events regularly in the National Bobsleigh Center in the next five years.
The most beautiful Winter Olympic City, the brilliant corner of the future picture seems to have been unveiled.
The "long tail effect" of the Winter Olympics is pushing Yanqing into a new stage of development. The most beautiful Winter Olympic City with ecology, civilization and happiness is moving towards the future at full speed!
Expert interviews
Continue to build an "Olympic City, Ice and Snow Capital"
What can the preparation of the Olympic Event bring to the host area? The reporter (hereinafter referred to as "Ji") interviewed Zhao Hong, former vice president of the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences and president of the Zhongguancun Institute of Innovation and Development (hereinafter referred to as "Zhao").
Reporter: What is the significance of organizing the Winter Olympics for urban development?
Zhao: Through the preparation of the Winter Olympics, transportation, electricity and other infrastructure have ushered in leapfrog development, and a set of event guarantee mechanisms have been established, which has trained the team and accumulated experience, which is a leap in urban governance capabilities. At the same time, the investment and construction of venues and infrastructure have driven the economy, formed a corresponding industrial chain around the event, and continued to promote regional development. In addition, the city's popularity and reputation have been greatly improved, which has an important role in promoting the future development of the city.
Reporter: In terms of the use of olympic heritage, what successful experiences at home and abroad can be used as a reference?
Zhao: Taking the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City as an example, after the games, salt lake city venues were mainly used to host international competitions, athlete training, youth winter sports and mass leisure. Between 2002 and 2010, more than 200 events were held on the grounds, and each event generated significant revenue for Utah.
At the same time, tourism has been developed through the use of venues after the game. For example, Park City Mountain Resort, in the summer, mainly carries out alpine skiing, rock climbing bungee jumping, mountain biking, hiking, mini golf and other projects, which greatly expands the content of Salt Lake City's sports industry and provides four-season tourism services.
Reporter: What other suggestions do you have for the future development of Yanqing, the most beautiful Winter Olympic city?
Zhao: First, continue to build a brand of Olympic cities and ice and snow capitals. Make the ice and snow industry distinctive, and strive to form a global ice and snow lovers resort, a national ice and snow sports professional training base, and a garden for the people's ice and snow leisure. The second is to enhance the breadth and depth of tourism. Promote global tourism, full-time tourism, and all-season tourism, and link up with Zhangjiakou and Chongli to create a Beijing-Zhangjiakou sports and cultural tourism belt. The third is to cultivate new momentum for sustainable development. We will cultivate characteristic innovative industries as the endogenous driving force and powerful engine leading the regional transformation and upgrading and the strong rise, and strive to become the highland of scientific and technological innovation in northwest Beijing.
(Original title: The Winter Olympic Dividend of the Most Beautiful Winter Olympic City)
Source: Beijing Daily Reporter: Li Yao
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