Source: China Youth Daily
On January 11, Liu Boqiang, an ice maker at the Shouyuan Sports Company, worked at the National Winter Sports Training Center located in Shougang Park. Reporter Liang Xuan/photo by
Nie Yadong mapped
The Winter Olympics changed people and cities
February 4, 2019, New Year's Eve, the beginning of spring.
February 4, 2022, the beginning of spring, 2 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will open.
From this spring to the spring three years later, the story of ice and snow will be accelerated from the three major Winter Olympics zones of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, told by people and recorded by cities.
changes have begun since Beijing and Zhangjiakou jointly obtained the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in July 2015. Steel rolling workers transformed into ice makers serving the national team of winter projects. A curling site will emerge from the swimming pool of Water Cube. The villages that cannot be kept look forward to the wanderers returning to their hometowns to start businesses. A piece of snow has doubled the small town that can be measured by walking.
"We are very sure that the project will be completed on time and that the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be successful." Before the Spring Festival, International Olympic Committee President Bach completed the inspection of the Winter Olympics. Behind the "China efficiency" he praised was the "ice and snow dream" that he had put forward the "mid-term answer sheet" for the preparations for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Migrating between fire and ice
From Tiananmen Square in Beijing, it was once the world of steel.
1919, the Beiyang government prepared to build the Shijingshan refinery, starting the century-old process of Shougang. After the founding of New China, it became an important steel industry base in my country, laying the foundation for Beijing's industry.
Jiang Jinyu has spent 21 years in Shougang. Earlier, she was the "stewardess" that was envied by the workers. This "stewardess" usually nestled in a cab of a 30-meter-high sky car in a corner of the factory, poking out half of her body at a high altitude, capturing the signal gestures of the worker making gestures on the ground, and then manipulating the red, red, green buttons and handles to poke the huge iron hook down, and lifting bolts as large as train leather and as small as 10 kilograms on the lathe.
"It's like a claw machine." Now that the unmanned sky car has been put into use, the entertainment machines surrounded by young people on the streets can make people "understand" Jiang Jinyu's "Tianche Female Worker" past.
In the roaring steel factory, female workers are rare. "There are only two female workers in the workshop forty years." But wearing fat dark blue labor cloth uniforms and walking without walking straight, "the female workers are no longer feminine." Jiang Jinyu, who was trapped in memories, is now a tour guide, wearing light makeup and waist-hugging suits, "like a woman than before", but she lacks the confidence she had when she was "I don't know where to get the confidence" back then.
changes began with the migration that affected 100,000 people.
is 2 of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was successfully held. Shougang completed unprecedented relocation adjustments and moved from Shijingshan to Bohai Bay Caofeidian .
24 hours a brightly lit factory area, the fire was turned off, the lights were off, and the noise stopped. The workers who chose to stay in the factory with Jiang Jinyu were afraid of being assigned to work night shifts. "I feel that the factory suddenly became bigger, there was no one, and I would be afraid at night." Liu Boqiang, who also chose to stay behind, also remembered the quietness. When the sound of production receded, he realized that others always said that he had a "loud voice" and was not a question. "In such a huge workshop, there would be an echo with a 'shou' sound."
The hot worker of steel rolling worker Liu Boqiang had the most experience. After entering Shougang in 1996, he worked in an environment of more than 40 degrees Celsius all year round. If he was five or six meters away from the red billets and ingots, he would feel that his face was about to be baked. After the production was stopped, Liu Boqiang stayed in the park to be responsible for the installation and maintenance of central air conditioners. This opportunity allowed him to be exposed to refrigeration and laid the groundwork for him to become a professional ice maker in the future.
At that time, the future was like an empty factory building for Liu Boqiang, and he could see the end at a glance. In July 2017, the notice of registration for ice making was sent to the team. "We are going to make popsicles, right?" Liu Boqiang jokingly signed up with curiosity. This is a turning point in his fate, and it is also a practical move by Shougang to seek transformation.
Source: China Youth Daily
On January 11, Liu Boqiang, an ice maker at the Shouyuan Sports Company, worked at the National Winter Sports Training Center located in Shougang Park. Reporter Liang Xuan/photo by
Nie Yadong mapped
The Winter Olympics changed people and cities
February 4, 2019, New Year's Eve, the beginning of spring.
February 4, 2022, the beginning of spring, 2 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will open.
From this spring to the spring three years later, the story of ice and snow will be accelerated from the three major Winter Olympics zones of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, told by people and recorded by cities.
changes have begun since Beijing and Zhangjiakou jointly obtained the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in July 2015. Steel rolling workers transformed into ice makers serving the national team of winter projects. A curling site will emerge from the swimming pool of Water Cube. The villages that cannot be kept look forward to the wanderers returning to their hometowns to start businesses. A piece of snow has doubled the small town that can be measured by walking.
"We are very sure that the project will be completed on time and that the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be successful." Before the Spring Festival, International Olympic Committee President Bach completed the inspection of the Winter Olympics. Behind the "China efficiency" he praised was the "ice and snow dream" that he had put forward the "mid-term answer sheet" for the preparations for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Migrating between fire and ice
From Tiananmen Square in Beijing, it was once the world of steel.
1919, the Beiyang government prepared to build the Shijingshan refinery, starting the century-old process of Shougang. After the founding of New China, it became an important steel industry base in my country, laying the foundation for Beijing's industry.
Jiang Jinyu has spent 21 years in Shougang. Earlier, she was the "stewardess" that was envied by the workers. This "stewardess" usually nestled in a cab of a 30-meter-high sky car in a corner of the factory, poking out half of her body at a high altitude, capturing the signal gestures of the worker making gestures on the ground, and then manipulating the red, red, green buttons and handles to poke the huge iron hook down, and lifting bolts as large as train leather and as small as 10 kilograms on the lathe.
"It's like a claw machine." Now that the unmanned sky car has been put into use, the entertainment machines surrounded by young people on the streets can make people "understand" Jiang Jinyu's "Tianche Female Worker" past.
In the roaring steel factory, female workers are rare. "There are only two female workers in the workshop forty years." But wearing fat dark blue labor cloth uniforms and walking without walking straight, "the female workers are no longer feminine." Jiang Jinyu, who was trapped in memories, is now a tour guide, wearing light makeup and waist-hugging suits, "like a woman than before", but she lacks the confidence she had when she was "I don't know where to get the confidence" back then.
changes began with the migration that affected 100,000 people.
is 2 of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was successfully held. Shougang completed unprecedented relocation adjustments and moved from Shijingshan to Bohai Bay Caofeidian .
24 hours a brightly lit factory area, the fire was turned off, the lights were off, and the noise stopped. The workers who chose to stay in the factory with Jiang Jinyu were afraid of being assigned to work night shifts. "I feel that the factory suddenly became bigger, there was no one, and I would be afraid at night." Liu Boqiang, who also chose to stay behind, also remembered the quietness. When the sound of production receded, he realized that others always said that he had a "loud voice" and was not a question. "In such a huge workshop, there would be an echo with a 'shou' sound."
The hot worker of steel rolling worker Liu Boqiang had the most experience. After entering Shougang in 1996, he worked in an environment of more than 40 degrees Celsius all year round. If he was five or six meters away from the red billets and ingots, he would feel that his face was about to be baked. After the production was stopped, Liu Boqiang stayed in the park to be responsible for the installation and maintenance of central air conditioners. This opportunity allowed him to be exposed to refrigeration and laid the groundwork for him to become a professional ice maker in the future.
At that time, the future was like an empty factory building for Liu Boqiang, and he could see the end at a glance. In July 2017, the notice of registration for ice making was sent to the team. "We are going to make popsicles, right?" Liu Boqiang jokingly signed up with curiosity. This is a turning point in his fate, and it is also a practical move by Shougang to seek transformation.
2022 Beijing Winter Olympics brought this long-silent industrial ruins to life. The silo that once stored materials has now become the office area of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, and the 300-meter-long and 60-meter-wide fine coal workshop and factory building has also been transformed into a national Winter Olympic Training Center. The old factory building has been "divided" into three national team training halls, short track speed skating, figure skating and curling. The coal transportation station next to it has been transformed into an international first-class ice hockey stadium.
Shougang "Four Pieces of Ice" provides ice maker Liu Boqiang with a place to use it.
Beginners in ice making are in midsummer in Beijing, with the outdoor temperature exceeding 30 degrees Celsius. Liu Boqiang stepped into the ice rink of the Capital Stadium for the first time, and the sweat hanging from his back disappeared. After learning to make ice and sweep ice for 3 months, colds are the norm. Even now, he still has Huoxiang Zhengqi Water in his cold-proof clothes.
Because the curling competition has extremely high requirements for the ice surface, Liu Boqiang, who can complete ice sweeping and making on the curling ground, has heavy tasks. When the sports team is in intensive training, he often stays in the ice rink for a day. But he "required" that he was like he was injected with chicken blood. "I asked a brief look that the ice maker who could make curling ice surfaces should not exceed double digits in the country. Therefore, I hope to participate in the maintenance of ice surfaces during the Winter Olympics. If it can be achieved, the highest point of my life will be there."
Migration from fire to ice is the common destiny of most employees who stay in the factory. "Shougang's transformation is not only an industrial transformation, but also a transformation of Shougang people." Liu Boqiang mentioned that it suddenly appeared when he entered the service industry from the industrial system. It was this "awkward" that inspired more possibilities. The iconic No. 3 blast furnace in the
factory has become the title page for the outside world to read Shougang's history after its suspension. Explaining how steel was made to primary and secondary school students has become Jiang Jinyu's new job. She was originally speaking "heroic" and was quite friendly in front of her children. "As a tour guide, she has a decent appearance, and a woman's gentle side must be shown."
What really changed her was the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. In April 2016, Jiang Jinyu became the tour guide for the Winter Olympics Property Division of the Park Service Company. She couldn't put on makeup, so she got up at 5 a.m. and drew her eyebrows for two hours; she couldn't embarrass herself, she learned to surf the Internet and make up for the knowledge of the Winter Olympics and the history of Shougang; she was doing dishes at home and recited words with her voice, but was stunned when she was not receiving her, and she was also reciting words in her heart. But when he arrived at the explanation site, he saw the leader and was nervous again. "In the workshop, the most contacted official was the squad leader." Jiang Jinyu lost 10 kilograms because of the pressure of "afraid of saying it wrong".
3 kilometers of visiting route, and at most, he walked 14 times a day. Jiang Jinyu's confidence also accumulated with the positive comments of the visitors. "When Mr. Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, came, the stage of heart raising his throat was over."
The 8.63 square kilometers area of Shougang was once a relatively closed small society for Jiang Jinyu, but now it has become a big stage for her to realize her potential.
As the only area in the six urban districts of Beijing that can be developed on a large scale and continuous basis, Metro Line 1, S1, M6 and multiple planned lines will make this land closer to the outside world. The Shougang Ski Jump, backed by the original Shougang Power Plant cooling tower, is not only the only snow event hosting in the city of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, but will also continue to be used for competition training and promotion of mass ice and snow sports after the event.
停产后，姜金玉曾去私人超市打工，看见浑身带刺味道奇臭的榴莲，好奇又不敢问，“怕被笑话”，一次偷偷尝试后便喜欢上这种反差。 Now, she treats durian as her WeChat avatar and is brewing her own amazing contrast.
From the water cube to the ice cube
20 kilometers north from the central axis of the Forbidden City, there were occasional vegetable sites dotted in the wild forest. After the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the National Stadium (Bird's Nest) and the National Swimming Center (Water Cube) rose from the ground here, inheriting the world "round and round sky" in the eyes of the ancients.
Now, the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube will serve the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. On their north side, it took only 8 months to reach the structural cap of the National Speed Skating Hall, and it is expected that 22 "ice ribbons" will soon fly by the end of this year. But the most symbolic part of Beijing's "Shuang Ao City" still falls on two buildings in one circle and one square.
In 2004, when Yang Qiyong participated in the construction of the Water Cube, the demolition was basically completed, and it was time to break the ground everywhere and wait for a miracle to stand.
According to data, the water cube composed of more than 3,000 air pillows of the entire building seems light, but the steel mesh that truly bears the burden and supports the walls and roof of the water cube is extremely complicated. 9,843 welding balls and 20,670 rod nodes must be accurately placed, and welding is the top priority.
Yang Qiyong, who is currently the general manager of the National Swimming Center, was still a "green" engineer back then. He remembered that due to the extremely high requirements for welding technology, he could only get a few nodes a day at the beginning, "if there were slight mistakes, I could not finish the work on schedule." The team quickly improved the installation method, and the welding speed quickly increased from four or five a day to hundreds, and the highest was 230. At the same time, almost all the welder resources across the country were called on at that time, and more than 200 skilled workers were screened out to work overtime. "Each weld requires workers to be responsible for the real-name system." Only a year and a half later, "everything was like a computer simulation."
2008 Beijing Olympics, the historical moments of water competitions such as swimming, diving, synchronized swimming have been left in the Water Cube. During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the Water Cube will become the "Ice Cube" and undertake curling and wheelchair curling competitions.
set up a curling track on the swimming pool, and the Water Cube has made history - it will add ice functions on the basis of retaining water functions, that is, by building a convertible structure and installing a detachable ice-making system in the middle of the competition hall, and combining with the upgraded air conditioning and dehumidification system, the curling venue with 4 standard tracks is completed. This is the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics.
The stability of the ice surface and the control of ice surface quality are the biggest difficulties, but there is almost no complete and mature indicator system to refer to. Yang Qiyong emphasized, "We must not only pay attention to the guarantee during the game, but also pay attention to the use after the game." The world problem of using the
sports stadium after the game fell on Yang Qiyong's shoulders in 2009, "I became a businessman." But science student Yang Qiyong is unwilling to become an ordinary businessman. Although the sharp drop in the number of tourists after 2009 made him feel lonely exploring in the dark, he insisted that "sports" is the core of the venue, especially the Olympic venues that are given grand significance, which must serve the public welfare national fitness.
Water Cube has no windows, looks like an exquisite gift box, always appearing in tourists' photos, but few people have explored the appearance inside. Since connecting with the community and the school, Yang Qiyong has found that waiting for the elevator at work has become a difficult task. The elevator on the north side of the Water Cube leads to the office area of the staff and also to the open swimming area. "Many old men and children are swimming here, and they also come to squeeze the elevators and get familiar with the roads. At this time, you can feel that the Olympic venues are really used by the people."
solved the problem, and Yang Qiyong looked forward to innovation again.
Ice and water conversion is an exploration of post-match utilization of venues. Venues with both water and ice functions can meet the requirements of both water and ice projects in spring, summer and autumn, mainly water functions, and water projects in winter. "The emergence of this technology and ideas will benefit similar venues across the country." The newly built South Plaza underground ice rink will also be retained as a Winter Olympic heritage after the competition and will be used for mass ice sports training and experience.
From 2008 to 2018, Yang Qiyong could feel the huge improvements brought by the Olympics to Beijing’s urban construction and sports development, while the overall idea of preparations for the Winter Olympics is obviously inclined to be economical, sustainable and have an influence on the people. "We have to be smarter in the dual Olympic cities than before."
Water Cube's Winter Olympics renovation project was launched on December 26, 2018, and it is expected to complete the permanent facility renovation task in July 2020. After the 2022 Winter Olympics, Yang Qiyong wanted to form a curling team at the Water Cube. "The winner bought a glass of beer for the losers. At my level, it seems that I will not worry about having no alcohol in the future.”
Crossroads under Haituo Mountain
Yanqing, Beijing’s district, east and south are adjacent to Huairou District, Changping District, , and west and north are connected to Huailai County and Chicheng County, Hebei Province, , for example, a cross knot was tied on North China Plain , connecting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to this land.
The east wind has arrived, living in Haituo Mountain, Yanqing The people under their feet have come to the crossroads of life one after another.
22 Beijing Winter Olympics, Yanqing will host alpine skiing projects among sleds, snowmobile and skiing events, and the venue under construction has filled the gap in such competitions in China. The 2019 Beijing World Horticultural Exhibition will also be held in Yanqing.
After the two major events were implemented in Yanqing, the "shepherd" Lang Enge sold more than 300 sheep. The sheep were raised freely on the mountain, and the grass wherever they went, destroying the grass, and feces polluted the river. For this reason, the leaders of the village and town talked to Lang Enge many times and advised him to find another way out.
Lang En, who is not a farmer The pigeon brought the "way" back to the mountain. When I was a child, the school was near the ski resort. The children who were older in the ski resort "know some of the ways to ski". So, his idea of "storing a ski team to serve the Winter Olympics" quickly received support from the Party Committee and Government of Zhangshanying, , Zhangshanying,
On July 11, 2017, the volunteer service Haituo Farmers Ski Team was officially established. The 18 members at that time were all from Zhangshanying, the Winter Olympics town, and the surrounding townships. The average age was less than 30 years old, but they had an average snow age of about 10 years. In the snow season, the team members farmed, drove trucks, and went to the construction site... When the snow season came, everyone would Take time to train ski enthusiasts. According to Lang Enge, from the 2017 to 2018 snow season, the team conducted multiple ski trainings for Yanqing District community volunteers, teenagers and farmers in Zhangshanying Town, with a total of more than 5,000 trains. As the influence of the ski team continues to expand, there are now more than 30 team members.
The government has won the opportunity to train coaches for the team. Finally, after training and examinations, the first batch of 11 team members received the first-level teaching certificate of ski coach instructors with international recognition. "Who would have thought that our rural ski team could also hire a Swiss foreign coach. "Lang Enge feels that skiing is no longer a hobby for the whole team.
" is conducive to non-agricultural transfer. "Xu Zhensheng, deputy secretary of the Party Branch of Xidazhuang Ke Village, went to Jilin for training with the ski team, became interested in ski resort service skills training such as driving snowmobile and operating snowmobile machines. "The young people in the village have gone out to work. If they learn to ski, snowmobile and operate snowmobile machines, they can not only find jobs at home, but also serve the Winter Olympics. "
, Xidazhuangke, curled up at the foot of Haituo Mountain, is the construction site of Yanqing competition area. According to media reports, before the International Olympic Organizing Committee visited Haituo Mountain in 2014, seven members of the Xidazhuangke Village Guide Team hiked for more than 10 hours a day for more than 40 consecutive days, climbing Haituo Mountain and Yudu Mountain from different directions more than 1,240 times before clearing out multiple roads from the two-meter-high bushes. As the Winter Olympics approached, Xu Zhensheng saw that the originally deserted village became lively. More than 50 villages with more than 100 people have now squeezed into four or five hundred construction workers who speak various dialects. Not far from the village, the sound of machines rumbled, and the construction of the Winter Olympic venues and related supporting facilities is being accelerated.
Because the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Zhang Haichao, who has been away from Yanqing for more than ten years, chose to return to his hometown to start a business.
In the impression of Zhang Haichao, 30, Yanqing when he left home at the age of 13, was "quiet enough for young people to think they should go out." Just entered the 21st century, with a yearning for big cities, the dropout boy came to Beijing with a certificate of loss of ID card. At the Capital Airport, he wore a security uniform and chased people who issued small advertisements for booking software. His monthly salary of over 1,000 yuan made him unable to see the appearance of a "big city" in his mind. In the cement forest, the certificate of loss of ID card covering up his age was repeatedly shown by Zhang Haichao, so fragile that every time he opened it, there was a risk of breaking it. Until he became a real estate agent, he sat in the office building, faced the "big-headed computer", stepped on the carpet in the corridor, sighing, "This is urban life."
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Zhang Haichao, who has adapted to urban life, devoted himself to entrepreneurship and rented the houses around the Asian Games Village, preparing to welcome tourists from all over the world. But the failed experience made him understand that "it is easy to work in the city, but the cost of starting a business is very high."
Return to Yanqing to start a business, Zhang Haichao had the idea in 2016. Yanqing, which has been away for many years, is no longer as quiet as before. After the successful bid for the Winter Olympics, tourists who came to visit the town have made many restaurants and hotels emerge; the slogans of "snatching planting and planting" and "forbidden to occupy land and illegal construction" emphasize the approaching rhythm of the Winter Olympics; and the plan of Yanchong Expressway and the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway through the Yanchong Expressway is like driving the entire small town to seek new life. "When you go around casually, construction is the most common." Zhang Haichao felt that "the Winter Olympics brings infinite possibilities to a small place."
Compared with 10 years ago, Chinese people have a more diverse understanding of tourism, and overseas homestay culture is also more popular. With years of entrepreneurial experience, Zhang Haichao saw Yanqing, which was changing rapidly. He changed his house next to the road in his hometown to a homestay to "test the waters". Due to the growing skiing, "I didn't expect that orders would be endless." Therefore, the idle farmhouses in Houheilongmiao Village, Zhangshanying Town were built into different styles to operate in a unified manner. In just two years, Zhang Haichao's high-end homestay "Hidden in the World" has opened the eighth door to the outside world. There are more garbage sorting boxes in the village, and supporting services such as cleaning and vegetable garden planting have also given the villagers more opportunities to work at their doorstep.
Employment opportunities and the hot tourism industry have attracted many young people like Zhang Haichao to return to Yanqing. "In the past, I left because of the lack of employment and entrepreneurial opportunities, but the arrival of the Winter Olympics gave young people a reason to go home. This is by no means a temporary opportunity. Venues, events, and tourism are all wealth that can be continuously explored." Zhang Haichao shook his arm that was injured while skiing, "Don't underestimate the charm of winter events."
The city "wrapped" by snow
continues north from Yanqing, and the car drives into the Chongli North toll station. In less than 5 minutes, "snow rental" and "mutton squid" rush to appear in the shop advertisements on both sides of the street - one is filled with the atmosphere as the location of the Zhangjiakou competition area of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and the other shows that the northern part of this small Hebei city relies on the geographical advantages of the Inner Mongolia grassland.
North of the Ice and Snow Museum is the area where the most concentrated tourists besides the snow resort. The streets that can be visited in 5 minutes by car are very lively. Just walk around the small square where the "Character Chongli" veneer sculpture is located. There are nearly 20 restaurants, hotels, snow shops, sports rehabilitation clinics and real estate agents with the word "snow" in their names, and even the carpet patterns or wallpapers of many hotels are also snowflakes. This is a joke among the locals, "the Chongli built for the people of Beijing."
After passing the Ice and Snow Museum, the height of the building is getting shorter. The king of sesame cakes and braised chicken and rice have begun to smell like life. The barber shop, small supermarket, and live fish in vegetables have a fireworks atmosphere. This is a Chongli with the stories of the locals, but even if there is no notice, "snow" is a topic they cannot avoid.
The great changes in Chongli are almost all related to snow.
In the winter of 1996, China's first private ski resort, Saibei Ski Resort, set a precedent for Chongli skiing tourism. On the exhibition board of the Ice and Snow Museum, a group of ski enthusiasts were sitting on a simple wooden cart with a thick rope tied to the front of the car and a Beijing 212 jeep tied to the other end of the rope. In the years when there was no cable car, this was the business opportunity brought to the locals.
Since then, with the addition of ski resorts such as Great Wall Ridge , Wanlong, and Genting, Chongli has become one of the largest ski gathering areas in China with 7 large ski resorts and 169 161.7 kilometers of ski slopes. The high concentration of skiing resources also gives Chongli the opportunity to serve as the main venue for the 2022 Winter Olympics snow event, and plans to undertake two major events and six points of snow event in the Winter Olympics.
According to official data, from the 2016 to 2017 snow season, Chongli received 1.334 million tourists, and from the 2017 to 2018 snow season reached 2.741 million. At present, , Chongli District, has built 160 hotels of various types, 7,303 rooms, and nearly 130 ski shops.
Relying on snow to make a living has gradually become the norm for local people.Zhu Zhiyong is a villager in Qipanliang Village. Because the village is located at the end of Yanchong Expressway, the entire village moved into the urban area in 2017, and the village committee has also entered the residential community. Zhu Zhiyong's family originally planted cabbage. Although Chongli lacked water and lacked continuous flat land arable land, the better soil still provided the local farmers with the possibility of a bumper harvest. But the weather is a headache. From October to April of the following year, the temperature drops sharply, which is not conducive to farming, but provides conditions for skiing. In Chongli, the natural snow skiing period can reach 120 days and the snow storage period will last for more than 140 days. The slopes of the hillside are mostly between 5 degrees and 35 degrees, which are steep and moderate, making it the most ideal skiing area in North China.
is 220 kilometers away from Beijing, which is exactly a distance that tourists can come and stay. The prosperity of the ski resort has driven the rapid heating of catering, hotels and ski supporting industries. Farming in summer and working in the ski resort in winter has become a popular way of making a living for local farmers. Zhu Zhiyong said, "Women who are older than you go to the ski resort to work as cleaning staff, waiters, men act as security guards and learn to make snow. Most young people learn to ski and strive to be coaches. Basically, we are all people who are inseparable from skiing." The popularity of the market is the driving force. In Chongli, a ski instructor with a moderate level earns a year of income, which is equivalent to a farmer cultivating colorful peppers in a vegetable greenhouse for a year.
In 2012, "a consortium has already begun to lay out the skiing industry in Chongli." Hao Shihua, who has been engaged in skiing teaching for many years after retirement from the alpine skiing program, decided to open an independent skiing school to train retired athletes, college students and local youths to become ski coaches.
At that time, you had to pass by Huangtuzui Village to Wanlong Snow Resort. The accommodation price in the ski resort was relatively high, so the village’s farmhouses became the climate. In the impression of locals, from 2008 to 2013, the most popular farmhouses here, Hao Shihua opened the school here and relied on the income from catering and accommodation to supplement teaching. In her memory, when the Ice and Snow Museum was not built, the surrounding area was still very desolate. Adobe houses covered with mud were scattered around the dirt road. But in a blink of an eye, rows of buildings replaced the adobe houses, and there were also European-style buildings with Roman columns and pointed roofs. In 2014, she moved the school to the next door of the museum, threw away other businesses, and focused on teaching.
The construction speed of Chongli is amazing. In 2008, when Hao Shihua had not yet arrived in Chongli, Changqing Road, one of the two main roads, was half narrower than now, and locals mostly took action. But 10 years later, the road has become wider and the small town has doubled. Although it can take a circumference for 15 minutes to drive, traffic jams cannot be avoided. On weekdays, it is rush hour, but on weekends, it is full of Beijing-licensed cars.
Henry, an American who has lived in Chongli for more than a year, always said: "In September this year, a real supermarket was opened in the awards ceremony square." Previously, he had become accustomed to driving a half-hour car to Zhangjiakou to go shopping or shop online at home like a local. Although Chongli's shopping and entertainment facilities are limited and his living convenience is different from his time in Beijing, he is not worried, "There is a Winter Olympics, I have seen the speed of China."
2022 Beijing Winter Olympics accelerated everything in the small town. According to the plan of Zhangjiakou City, it is planned to build a ski area centered on Chongli and radiate to surrounding areas by 2025, with a goal of building 30 ski resorts and 600 ski trails, with a total length of more than 500 kilometers. The concentrated construction of ice skating halls, outdoor ice skating rinks, ice and snow tourism resorts, and ice and snow characteristic towns can meet the ice and snow sports needs of 20 million people each year.
"If there were no Winter Olympics, Chongli would not have had so much capital intervention." Wang Biao, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Chongli District Party Committee, said at an economic work conference this year that since the successful bid for the Olympic Games, the total fiscal revenue has increased by nearly 200 million yuan per year, from 440 million yuan in 2015 to 1.015 billion yuan in 2018, especially the proportion of tax revenue in total fiscal revenue reached 76.2%, and the proportion of tertiary industry tax revenue in total tax revenue reached 71.4%. In the past, the fiscal and tax structure of "one mine dominates" achieved stable transformation in the rapid development.
Winter Olympics attracted investment and foreign friends like Henry. Henry, who went to Beijing to open a bar in 2009, always wanted to have his own brewery, but the cost of starting a business in Beijing was very high. In 2017, he came to Chongli at the invitation of the ski resort to make wine on weekdays and go to the ski resort bar to help on weekends.Ski coaches from all over the world have also appeared one after another, often looking for Henry who can speak fluent Chinese to ask about the ways to go to Beijing and help bring things from Zhangjiakou. Henry spent 40,000 to 50,000 yuan a year in the city and was keen on mutton. He looked like a "local" person who was in Chongli. He was optimistic about the future of the ice and snow industry here. "I like ice hockey, but in 2009, no one around knew about ice hockey. It was a surprise that people often talked about ice hockey with me now."
Chongli is like a hut standing in a crystal ball. Whether the white particles symbolizing the falling snowflakes are churning or sedimenting in the liquid, "ice and snow" looks like the only theme here. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway and Yanchong Expressway, which are being vigorously promoted, may give the crystal ball a violent knock, making the snowflakes boiling, and make Chongli more possibilities outside of winter - the Fuxing, which is 350 kilometers per hour, will compress the journey between Beijing and Zhangjiakou from 3 hours to 50 minutes; after the Yanchong Expressway is opened, the journey from Beijing to Chongli will be half shorter than the current journey.
Entering 2019, people living in Chongli’s hopes for the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway and Yanchong High-speed Railway have become more specific. Real estate agency Haiyan threw out the myth that a house price rose by 3,000 yuan per square meter on the day of successful bid for the Winter Olympics, but was "empty in seconds", emphasizing that "the opportunity cannot be missed"; Henry hopes to sell homebrew beer to Beijing more conveniently; Hao Shihua hopes that when more snow friends come to Chongli, more coaches can go out, "going to the campus and contacting students, so that they can get in touch with systematic skiing teaching from an early age." In her opinion, starting from children, China's ice and snow industry can develop rapidly. When this generation of people who benefit from the Beijing Winter Olympics grows up, "China's ice and snow spring has really arrived, and now is the time for everything to begin." (Reporter Liang Xuan)
In 2004, when Yang Qiyong participated in the construction of the Water Cube, the demolition was basically completed, and it was time to break the ground everywhere and wait for a miracle to stand.
According to data, the water cube composed of more than 3,000 air pillows of the entire building seems light, but the steel mesh that truly bears the burden and supports the walls and roof of the water cube is extremely complicated. 9,843 welding balls and 20,670 rod nodes must be accurately placed, and welding is the top priority.
Yang Qiyong, who is currently the general manager of the National Swimming Center, was still a "green" engineer back then. He remembered that due to the extremely high requirements for welding technology, he could only get a few nodes a day at the beginning, "if there were slight mistakes, I could not finish the work on schedule." The team quickly improved the installation method, and the welding speed quickly increased from four or five a day to hundreds, and the highest was 230. At the same time, almost all the welder resources across the country were called on at that time, and more than 200 skilled workers were screened out to work overtime. "Each weld requires workers to be responsible for the real-name system." Only a year and a half later, "everything was like a computer simulation."
2008 Beijing Olympics, the historical moments of water competitions such as swimming, diving, synchronized swimming have been left in the Water Cube. During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the Water Cube will become the "Ice Cube" and undertake curling and wheelchair curling competitions.
set up a curling track on the swimming pool, and the Water Cube has made history - it will add ice functions on the basis of retaining water functions, that is, by building a convertible structure and installing a detachable ice-making system in the middle of the competition hall, and combining with the upgraded air conditioning and dehumidification system, the curling venue with 4 standard tracks is completed. This is the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics.
The stability of the ice surface and the control of ice surface quality are the biggest difficulties, but there is almost no complete and mature indicator system to refer to. Yang Qiyong emphasized, "We must not only pay attention to the guarantee during the game, but also pay attention to the use after the game." The world problem of using the
sports stadium after the game fell on Yang Qiyong's shoulders in 2009, "I became a businessman." But science student Yang Qiyong is unwilling to become an ordinary businessman. Although the sharp drop in the number of tourists after 2009 made him feel lonely exploring in the dark, he insisted that "sports" is the core of the venue, especially the Olympic venues that are given grand significance, which must serve the public welfare national fitness.
Water Cube has no windows, looks like an exquisite gift box, always appearing in tourists' photos, but few people have explored the appearance inside. Since connecting with the community and the school, Yang Qiyong has found that waiting for the elevator at work has become a difficult task. The elevator on the north side of the Water Cube leads to the office area of the staff and also to the open swimming area. "Many old men and children are swimming here, and they also come to squeeze the elevators and get familiar with the roads. At this time, you can feel that the Olympic venues are really used by the people."
solved the problem, and Yang Qiyong looked forward to innovation again.
Ice and water conversion is an exploration of post-match utilization of venues. Venues with both water and ice functions can meet the requirements of both water and ice projects in spring, summer and autumn, mainly water functions, and water projects in winter. "The emergence of this technology and ideas will benefit similar venues across the country." The newly built South Plaza underground ice rink will also be retained as a Winter Olympic heritage after the competition and will be used for mass ice sports training and experience.
From 2008 to 2018, Yang Qiyong could feel the huge improvements brought by the Olympics to Beijing’s urban construction and sports development, while the overall idea of preparations for the Winter Olympics is obviously inclined to be economical, sustainable and have an influence on the people. "We have to be smarter in the dual Olympic cities than before."
Water Cube's Winter Olympics renovation project was launched on December 26, 2018, and it is expected to complete the permanent facility renovation task in July 2020. After the 2022 Winter Olympics, Yang Qiyong wanted to form a curling team at the Water Cube. "The winner bought a glass of beer for the losers. At my level, it seems that I will not worry about having no alcohol in the future.”
Crossroads under Haituo Mountain
Yanqing, Beijing’s district, east and south are adjacent to Huairou District, Changping District, , and west and north are connected to Huailai County and Chicheng County, Hebei Province, , for example, a cross knot was tied on North China Plain , connecting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to this land.
The east wind has arrived, living in Haituo Mountain, Yanqing The people under their feet have come to the crossroads of life one after another.
22 Beijing Winter Olympics, Yanqing will host alpine skiing projects among sleds, snowmobile and skiing events, and the venue under construction has filled the gap in such competitions in China. The 2019 Beijing World Horticultural Exhibition will also be held in Yanqing.
After the two major events were implemented in Yanqing, the "shepherd" Lang Enge sold more than 300 sheep. The sheep were raised freely on the mountain, and the grass wherever they went, destroying the grass, and feces polluted the river. For this reason, the leaders of the village and town talked to Lang Enge many times and advised him to find another way out.
Lang En, who is not a farmer The pigeon brought the "way" back to the mountain. When I was a child, the school was near the ski resort. The children who were older in the ski resort "know some of the ways to ski". So, his idea of "storing a ski team to serve the Winter Olympics" quickly received support from the Party Committee and Government of Zhangshanying, , Zhangshanying,
On July 11, 2017, the volunteer service Haituo Farmers Ski Team was officially established. The 18 members at that time were all from Zhangshanying, the Winter Olympics town, and the surrounding townships. The average age was less than 30 years old, but they had an average snow age of about 10 years. In the snow season, the team members farmed, drove trucks, and went to the construction site... When the snow season came, everyone would Take time to train ski enthusiasts. According to Lang Enge, from the 2017 to 2018 snow season, the team conducted multiple ski trainings for Yanqing District community volunteers, teenagers and farmers in Zhangshanying Town, with a total of more than 5,000 trains. As the influence of the ski team continues to expand, there are now more than 30 team members.
The government has won the opportunity to train coaches for the team. Finally, after training and examinations, the first batch of 11 team members received the first-level teaching certificate of ski coach instructors with international recognition. "Who would have thought that our rural ski team could also hire a Swiss foreign coach. "Lang Enge feels that skiing is no longer a hobby for the whole team.
" is conducive to non-agricultural transfer. "Xu Zhensheng, deputy secretary of the Party Branch of Xidazhuang Ke Village, went to Jilin for training with the ski team, became interested in ski resort service skills training such as driving snowmobile and operating snowmobile machines. "The young people in the village have gone out to work. If they learn to ski, snowmobile and operate snowmobile machines, they can not only find jobs at home, but also serve the Winter Olympics. "
, Xidazhuangke, curled up at the foot of Haituo Mountain, is the construction site of Yanqing competition area. According to media reports, before the International Olympic Organizing Committee visited Haituo Mountain in 2014, seven members of the Xidazhuangke Village Guide Team hiked for more than 10 hours a day for more than 40 consecutive days, climbing Haituo Mountain and Yudu Mountain from different directions more than 1,240 times before clearing out multiple roads from the two-meter-high bushes. As the Winter Olympics approached, Xu Zhensheng saw that the originally deserted village became lively. More than 50 villages with more than 100 people have now squeezed into four or five hundred construction workers who speak various dialects. Not far from the village, the sound of machines rumbled, and the construction of the Winter Olympic venues and related supporting facilities is being accelerated.
Because the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Zhang Haichao, who has been away from Yanqing for more than ten years, chose to return to his hometown to start a business.
In the impression of Zhang Haichao, 30, Yanqing when he left home at the age of 13, was "quiet enough for young people to think they should go out." Just entered the 21st century, with a yearning for big cities, the dropout boy came to Beijing with a certificate of loss of ID card. At the Capital Airport, he wore a security uniform and chased people who issued small advertisements for booking software. His monthly salary of over 1,000 yuan made him unable to see the appearance of a "big city" in his mind. In the cement forest, the certificate of loss of ID card covering up his age was repeatedly shown by Zhang Haichao, so fragile that every time he opened it, there was a risk of breaking it. Until he became a real estate agent, he sat in the office building, faced the "big-headed computer", stepped on the carpet in the corridor, sighing, "This is urban life."
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Zhang Haichao, who has adapted to urban life, devoted himself to entrepreneurship and rented the houses around the Asian Games Village, preparing to welcome tourists from all over the world. But the failed experience made him understand that "it is easy to work in the city, but the cost of starting a business is very high."
Return to Yanqing to start a business, Zhang Haichao had the idea in 2016. Yanqing, which has been away for many years, is no longer as quiet as before. After the successful bid for the Winter Olympics, tourists who came to visit the town have made many restaurants and hotels emerge; the slogans of "snatching planting and planting" and "forbidden to occupy land and illegal construction" emphasize the approaching rhythm of the Winter Olympics; and the plan of Yanchong Expressway and the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway through the Yanchong Expressway is like driving the entire small town to seek new life. "When you go around casually, construction is the most common." Zhang Haichao felt that "the Winter Olympics brings infinite possibilities to a small place."
Compared with 10 years ago, Chinese people have a more diverse understanding of tourism, and overseas homestay culture is also more popular. With years of entrepreneurial experience, Zhang Haichao saw Yanqing, which was changing rapidly. He changed his house next to the road in his hometown to a homestay to "test the waters". Due to the growing skiing, "I didn't expect that orders would be endless." Therefore, the idle farmhouses in Houheilongmiao Village, Zhangshanying Town were built into different styles to operate in a unified manner. In just two years, Zhang Haichao's high-end homestay "Hidden in the World" has opened the eighth door to the outside world. There are more garbage sorting boxes in the village, and supporting services such as cleaning and vegetable garden planting have also given the villagers more opportunities to work at their doorstep.
Employment opportunities and the hot tourism industry have attracted many young people like Zhang Haichao to return to Yanqing. "In the past, I left because of the lack of employment and entrepreneurial opportunities, but the arrival of the Winter Olympics gave young people a reason to go home. This is by no means a temporary opportunity. Venues, events, and tourism are all wealth that can be continuously explored." Zhang Haichao shook his arm that was injured while skiing, "Don't underestimate the charm of winter events."
The city "wrapped" by snow
continues north from Yanqing, and the car drives into the Chongli North toll station. In less than 5 minutes, "snow rental" and "mutton squid" rush to appear in the shop advertisements on both sides of the street - one is filled with the atmosphere as the location of the Zhangjiakou competition area of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and the other shows that the northern part of this small Hebei city relies on the geographical advantages of the Inner Mongolia grassland.
North of the Ice and Snow Museum is the area where the most concentrated tourists besides the snow resort. The streets that can be visited in 5 minutes by car are very lively. Just walk around the small square where the "Character Chongli" veneer sculpture is located. There are nearly 20 restaurants, hotels, snow shops, sports rehabilitation clinics and real estate agents with the word "snow" in their names, and even the carpet patterns or wallpapers of many hotels are also snowflakes. This is a joke among the locals, "the Chongli built for the people of Beijing."
After passing the Ice and Snow Museum, the height of the building is getting shorter. The king of sesame cakes and braised chicken and rice have begun to smell like life. The barber shop, small supermarket, and live fish in vegetables have a fireworks atmosphere. This is a Chongli with the stories of the locals, but even if there is no notice, "snow" is a topic they cannot avoid.
The great changes in Chongli are almost all related to snow.
In the winter of 1996, China's first private ski resort, Saibei Ski Resort, set a precedent for Chongli skiing tourism. On the exhibition board of the Ice and Snow Museum, a group of ski enthusiasts were sitting on a simple wooden cart with a thick rope tied to the front of the car and a Beijing 212 jeep tied to the other end of the rope. In the years when there was no cable car, this was the business opportunity brought to the locals.
Since then, with the addition of ski resorts such as Great Wall Ridge , Wanlong, and Genting, Chongli has become one of the largest ski gathering areas in China with 7 large ski resorts and 169 161.7 kilometers of ski slopes. The high concentration of skiing resources also gives Chongli the opportunity to serve as the main venue for the 2022 Winter Olympics snow event, and plans to undertake two major events and six points of snow event in the Winter Olympics.
According to official data, from the 2016 to 2017 snow season, Chongli received 1.334 million tourists, and from the 2017 to 2018 snow season reached 2.741 million. At present, , Chongli District, has built 160 hotels of various types, 7,303 rooms, and nearly 130 ski shops.
Relying on snow to make a living has gradually become the norm for local people.Zhu Zhiyong is a villager in Qipanliang Village. Because the village is located at the end of Yanchong Expressway, the entire village moved into the urban area in 2017, and the village committee has also entered the residential community. Zhu Zhiyong's family originally planted cabbage. Although Chongli lacked water and lacked continuous flat land arable land, the better soil still provided the local farmers with the possibility of a bumper harvest. But the weather is a headache. From October to April of the following year, the temperature drops sharply, which is not conducive to farming, but provides conditions for skiing. In Chongli, the natural snow skiing period can reach 120 days and the snow storage period will last for more than 140 days. The slopes of the hillside are mostly between 5 degrees and 35 degrees, which are steep and moderate, making it the most ideal skiing area in North China.
is 220 kilometers away from Beijing, which is exactly a distance that tourists can come and stay. The prosperity of the ski resort has driven the rapid heating of catering, hotels and ski supporting industries. Farming in summer and working in the ski resort in winter has become a popular way of making a living for local farmers. Zhu Zhiyong said, "Women who are older than you go to the ski resort to work as cleaning staff, waiters, men act as security guards and learn to make snow. Most young people learn to ski and strive to be coaches. Basically, we are all people who are inseparable from skiing." The popularity of the market is the driving force. In Chongli, a ski instructor with a moderate level earns a year of income, which is equivalent to a farmer cultivating colorful peppers in a vegetable greenhouse for a year.
In 2012, "a consortium has already begun to lay out the skiing industry in Chongli." Hao Shihua, who has been engaged in skiing teaching for many years after retirement from the alpine skiing program, decided to open an independent skiing school to train retired athletes, college students and local youths to become ski coaches.
At that time, you had to pass by Huangtuzui Village to Wanlong Snow Resort. The accommodation price in the ski resort was relatively high, so the village’s farmhouses became the climate. In the impression of locals, from 2008 to 2013, the most popular farmhouses here, Hao Shihua opened the school here and relied on the income from catering and accommodation to supplement teaching. In her memory, when the Ice and Snow Museum was not built, the surrounding area was still very desolate. Adobe houses covered with mud were scattered around the dirt road. But in a blink of an eye, rows of buildings replaced the adobe houses, and there were also European-style buildings with Roman columns and pointed roofs. In 2014, she moved the school to the next door of the museum, threw away other businesses, and focused on teaching.
The construction speed of Chongli is amazing. In 2008, when Hao Shihua had not yet arrived in Chongli, Changqing Road, one of the two main roads, was half narrower than now, and locals mostly took action. But 10 years later, the road has become wider and the small town has doubled. Although it can take a circumference for 15 minutes to drive, traffic jams cannot be avoided. On weekdays, it is rush hour, but on weekends, it is full of Beijing-licensed cars.
Henry, an American who has lived in Chongli for more than a year, always said: "In September this year, a real supermarket was opened in the awards ceremony square." Previously, he had become accustomed to driving a half-hour car to Zhangjiakou to go shopping or shop online at home like a local. Although Chongli's shopping and entertainment facilities are limited and his living convenience is different from his time in Beijing, he is not worried, "There is a Winter Olympics, I have seen the speed of China."
2022 Beijing Winter Olympics accelerated everything in the small town. According to the plan of Zhangjiakou City, it is planned to build a ski area centered on Chongli and radiate to surrounding areas by 2025, with a goal of building 30 ski resorts and 600 ski trails, with a total length of more than 500 kilometers. The concentrated construction of ice skating halls, outdoor ice skating rinks, ice and snow tourism resorts, and ice and snow characteristic towns can meet the ice and snow sports needs of 20 million people each year.
"If there were no Winter Olympics, Chongli would not have had so much capital intervention." Wang Biao, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Chongli District Party Committee, said at an economic work conference this year that since the successful bid for the Olympic Games, the total fiscal revenue has increased by nearly 200 million yuan per year, from 440 million yuan in 2015 to 1.015 billion yuan in 2018, especially the proportion of tax revenue in total fiscal revenue reached 76.2%, and the proportion of tertiary industry tax revenue in total tax revenue reached 71.4%. In the past, the fiscal and tax structure of "one mine dominates" achieved stable transformation in the rapid development.
Winter Olympics attracted investment and foreign friends like Henry. Henry, who went to Beijing to open a bar in 2009, always wanted to have his own brewery, but the cost of starting a business in Beijing was very high. In 2017, he came to Chongli at the invitation of the ski resort to make wine on weekdays and go to the ski resort bar to help on weekends.Ski coaches from all over the world have also appeared one after another, often looking for Henry who can speak fluent Chinese to ask about the ways to go to Beijing and help bring things from Zhangjiakou. Henry spent 40,000 to 50,000 yuan a year in the city and was keen on mutton. He looked like a "local" person who was in Chongli. He was optimistic about the future of the ice and snow industry here. "I like ice hockey, but in 2009, no one around knew about ice hockey. It was a surprise that people often talked about ice hockey with me now."
Chongli is like a hut standing in a crystal ball. Whether the white particles symbolizing the falling snowflakes are churning or sedimenting in the liquid, "ice and snow" looks like the only theme here. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway and Yanchong Expressway, which are being vigorously promoted, may give the crystal ball a violent knock, making the snowflakes boiling, and make Chongli more possibilities outside of winter - the Fuxing, which is 350 kilometers per hour, will compress the journey between Beijing and Zhangjiakou from 3 hours to 50 minutes; after the Yanchong Expressway is opened, the journey from Beijing to Chongli will be half shorter than the current journey.
Entering 2019, people living in Chongli’s hopes for the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway and Yanchong High-speed Railway have become more specific. Real estate agency Haiyan threw out the myth that a house price rose by 3,000 yuan per square meter on the day of successful bid for the Winter Olympics, but was "empty in seconds", emphasizing that "the opportunity cannot be missed"; Henry hopes to sell homebrew beer to Beijing more conveniently; Hao Shihua hopes that when more snow friends come to Chongli, more coaches can go out, "going to the campus and contacting students, so that they can get in touch with systematic skiing teaching from an early age." In her opinion, starting from children, China's ice and snow industry can develop rapidly. When this generation of people who benefit from the Beijing Winter Olympics grows up, "China's ice and snow spring has really arrived, and now is the time for everything to begin." (Reporter Liang Xuan)
