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China Matters releases the “Together in Beijing” short video series on the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the Spring Festival
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. The upcoming
Lunar New Year, China’s biggest festival for family reunion, will meet the 2022
Beijing Winter Olympics, as the opening ceremony of the Games will fall on the
fourth day of the Lunar New Year.
After hosting
the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is set to become the first city ever to host both
the summer and winter editions of the Games.
Chen Lu, China’s
first world champion figure skater, calls it unbelievable to see the Winter
Olympics be held in Beijing, because it was quite a different landscape when
China did not even have a single indoor ice rink during her childhood.
When Beijing was
awarded the host city of the Winter Olympics in 2015, the country vowed to get
300 million Chinese involved in winter sports. In the same year, ice hockey
coach Michael Kusy came to Beijing and started a club to train Chinese children,
in the hope that the Winter Olympics can help the game grow in China.
As a professor at
the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Liu Li’s program is mainly
targeted at using technology to improve the athletes’ suits and thus improve
their performance. “For speed events, one hundredth of a second can make a
difference in who wins the medal,” said Liu Li.
Traditionally,
China’s Spring Festival holiday is a time for family reunion at the beginning
of the Lunar New Year. But in the times of a pandemic, some may choose to stay
put at where they live and work, including foreigners.
For Winter
Olympics volunteer Nika, it will be her first-time spending Spring Festival in
Beijing although the Ukrainian girl came to China when she was just 13 years
old. As Nika said, it will be a whole new experience for her to spend the
holiday in Beijing and work as a volunteer for the Games at the same time.
Mark Levine, who
teaches at the Minzu University of China, now spends most of his time in Beijing
since the outbreak of the pandemic. Levine was recently awarded the title of
International Olympics Communication Ambassador, but watching the Games will
not be the only item on his agenda for the upcoming holiday, as watching the
Spring Festival Gala and writing books have become his preferred way of
spending the traditional festival.
In this video,
we interviewed the above five people from different walks of life to share
their expectations for both the upcoming Spring Festival and the Winter Games
as well.
Contact: Jane Cheng
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