Yanqing Olympic Zone in the Yanqing competition zone of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and
Paralympics, which has been officially approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
and thus become the third area in Beijing titled “Olympic” after Beijing’s Olympic Park and
Winter Olympic Park, is slated to open to the public on April 29 and operate in all seasons.
Located on the Xiaohaituo Mountain in Yanqing district, Beijing, the Yanqing Olympic Zone
consists of venues and facilities for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics including the
National Alpine Skiing Center, National Sliding Center, and the Winter Olympic and Paralympic
Village in Yanqing district. It is one of the important legacies left by Beijing 2022.
As the core area of the Yanqing competition zone, the Yanqing Olympic Zone is expected to be
developed and exploited in many ways based on its three functional sections, namely core area of
mountain and outdoor sports, indoor leisure and recreational activity area, and comprehensive
service area for visitors.
According to an executive of the Yanqing Olympic Zone, it will build an international ski resort
that features skiing-related facilities and services that suit visitors’ needs for mountain and outdoor
sports, health care, vacation, recreation and leisure.
While keeping the functions of hosting international high-level alpine skiing competitions and
satisfying the training needs of professional athletes, the National Alpine Skiing Center will be
moderately transformed so as to function as an alpine skiing training base, ski school, etc. with a
multi-dimensional skiing training and teaching system, according to the executive.
The National Sliding Center, which is dubbed the “Flying Snow Dragon”, will remain a
competition venue and be used for undertaking and hosting high-level competitions while
providing professional training fields for national sports teams, the executive said.
“Retaining memories of Beijing 2022 while providing characteristic experiences is expected to be
a major feature of the Yanqing Olympic Zone,” said Fu Liansheng, chairman of a company based
in Yanqing district that provides services and products related to leisure and fitness activities.
The Yanqing Olympic Zone will preserve all the landscape elements of the Beijing 2022 Olympic
and Paralympic Winter Games, according to Fu, who added that the office of the head of the
Winter Olympic and Paralympic Village in Yanqing district will remain open to visitors and the
ornaments featuring the official mascots of the Games, Bing Dwen Dwen and Shuey Rhon Rhon,
which is popular among athletes, have also been kept where they were.
In addition, the resort hotel of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Village retains facilities set up
for the Games, including the exhibition areas of traditional culture and traditional Chinese
medicine culture, the post office, and the souvenir shop, and will hold Beijing Winter Olympics-
themed exhibitions to help visitors experience the atmosphere of the grand event.
The mountain valley where the Yanqing Olympic Zone is situated enjoys beautiful natural
landscape, abundant animal and plant resources and ice and snow resources.
Based on the natural resources of Xiaohaituo Mountain, Yanqing Olympic Zone will launch a
serious of activities, including cycling race, music festival, cross-country race, and
mountaineering festival, by leveraging the influence of key competitions and activities and
making good use of leading global resources and activities to which Yanqing Olympic Zone owns
intellectual property rights, Fu said, noting that the Xiaohaituo Mountain will be turned into a
tourist attraction where tourists can enjoy the view of blossoms in spring, escape the summer heat,
view splendid mountain scenery in autumn, and play with snow in winter.
In an effort to make sure it can operate all year round, Yanqing Olympic Zone will start a school to
cultivate talents including professionals providing services for skiers in winter and mountain
guides who help climbers in summer. It will also build an integrated camp that combines training
field, accommodation, and teaching activities.
Xidazhuangke village, located near the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Village in Yanqing
district, will build a culture exhibition zone featuring homestay hotels in mountain village in
northern China. Houses in the mountain village will surround the buildings that served Beijing
2022.
Residents of the village are expected to receive keys and move into their new homes in a few
days.
Leveraging its advantage of being a part of the Yanqing competition zone, Zhangshanying
township, to which Xidazhuangke village belongs, aims to build a world-famous beautiful Winter
Olympics-themed town featuring ice and snow sports and activities.
In the first quarter of this year, projects designed to improve the living environment of 13 villages
in Zhangshanying township were kicked off, according to an official of the township, who
disclosed that the local government has also made continuous efforts to promote local
infrastructure construction and implement projects to boost the development of fruit industry.
The township tries to make the most of its lush mountains and lucid waters and ice and snow
elements to stimulate the growth of local industries and increase people’s income, said the official.
Relying on the Yanqing Olympic Zone, Yanqing district will pool its resources to develop itself
into a tourist destination featuring “all-for-one” tourism and integrated tourism products and
services.
An official with the culture and tourism bureau of Yanqing district disclosed that the district will
hold international top-level ice and snow sports events on a long-term basis, continuously
undertake competition events like world-class cycling road race, mountain marathon, and cross-
country mountain race, and gradually open to the public leisure tourism projects and facilities
including ski resorts, customized routes for mountain hiking, and summer camp for families.
It’s believed that the Yanqing Olympic Zone will further add vigor and dynamism to the area it is
located and turn venues like the National Alpine Skiing Center and National Sliding Center
into high-quality assets that benefit the people.
