Snow and ice sports have become a key to the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei

Different from other sports, ice and snow sports not only rely on climate, geography and other natural resources, but also require a relatively strong economic foundation, as well as strong professional and technical. Relevant studies show that when a country's per capita GDP exceeds $8,000, the sports industry begins to show significant growth; When GDP per capita exceeded $10,000, ice sports began to flourish. In 2010, the per capita GDP rate of Beijing and Shanghai exceeded $10,000 for the first time, and snow sports began to draw more attention from the society. In 2020, seven provinces and cities in China, including Beijing and Tianjin, saw their per capita GDP exceed us $12,700. Eleven provinces and cities, including Chongqing, have a per capita GDP of more than $8,000. This shows that China's economic development has entered a new stage, with a solid economic foundation for the development of ice and snow sports. At the same time, the rapid economic development has also promoted the change of people's consumption concept and health concept, which has laid a broad mass foundation for the development of ice and snow sports.

The successful bid for Beijing Winter Olympic Games has directly promoted the rapid development of ice and snow sports in China. The Ministry of Education, The General Administration of Sport of China, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments jointly issued a series of documents, including The Plan for The Popularization of Mass Winter Sports (2016-2020), the Development Plan for Ice and Snow Sports (2016-2025), and the National Construction Plan for Ice and Snow Venue Facilities (2016-2022). It provides strong policy support for people to participate in ice and snow sports, promote ice and snow sports into schools, and cultivate reserve talents for ice and snow sports. In recent years, various kinds of ice and snow carnivals, ice and snow experience projects, and ice and snow tourism resorts have been emerging, ushering in favorable opportunities for the development of ice and snow sports in China.

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is connected by mountains and rivers and has close economic ties. It has the natural resources and economic foundation for the joint development of ice and snow sports, which has become an important starting point to promote the integrated development of The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. First, we will promote coordinated development of sports in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Sports department has signed in recent years, the beijing-tianjin-hebei, Hong Kong and the further promoting the coordinated development of beijing-tianjin-hebei sports protocol the coordinated development of beijing-tianjin-hebei youth sports framework agreement, such as policy documents, respectively from the policy support, funding for education, ice, snow, ice and snow sports venue and so on a series of action, ice and snow sports to get fast development of the beijing-tianjin-hebei region, Currently, there are 116 professional outdoor ski resorts in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Second, promote the coordinated development of ice-related industries. Beijing focuses on promoting the research and development of intelligent ice and snow sports equipment and the cultivation of well-known brands. Zhangjiakou focuses on the production of ice and snow sports equipment, building an ice and snow sports equipment industrial park, driving the aggregation of snow and snow light equipment, snow resort infrastructure, sports and leisure clothing and other related industries, and jointly building beijing-Tianjin-Hebei boutique sports tourism products and routes. Third, we will promote the collaborative training of ice and snow talents. Relying on Beijing Sport University, Capital Institute of Physical Education, Tianjin Institute of Physical Education, Hebei Institute of Physical Education and other universities to strengthen the training of ice and snow sports talents, jointly build professional and international ice and snow sports talent team and management team. In addition, the coordinated development of transportation in The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the accelerated construction of the one-hour economic circle between Beijing and Zhangjiakou, Hebei province have created convenient transportation conditions for people to participate in ice and snow sports. The Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Coordinated ecological and environmental protection is also accelerating with the Olympics as an opportunity. Regional joint prevention and treatment of the ecological and environmental protection is constantly strengthened, and new mechanisms and models of regional coordinated ecological and environmental protection are taking shape at a faster pace.

Next, can promote beijing-tianjin-hebei, Hong Kong and the games stadiums after the use, innovation and development of ice and snow sports new forms, strengthening the ice and snow sports equipment new technology to promote the use of new materials, strengthening the ice and snow and ice talent support system construction, promote the construction of physical culture tourism integration development, Beijing Zhang Tiyu cultural tourism zone further strengthen co-ordinated action. Pushing its heritage use together, for each of the games stadiums after the use of plan, the construction of good international Olympic academy, Beijing yanqing, zhangjiakou zhangjiakou worship ceremony of the Olympic park, Olympic park Olympic square, promote the construction of Beijing yanqing district, zhangjiakou city of the best games build ice-snow tourism holiday destination in Asia, etc. We will give full play to the economic, scientific, technological and cultural dividends of hosting the Winter Olympics, and promote the coordinated development of The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region with higher quality.

By Wu Liyun

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Source: Guangming Daily