Jiamusi City in Heilongjiang Province is the easternmost city in China. When the first ray of sunshine in the cold winter appears here, the figure of hard training of young skaters can be seen everywhere in the ice rinks in Jiamusi.
From this small town, many world champions of ice and snow sports came out: Li Yan, head coach of China’s national speed skating training team, Yang Yang, Wu Dajing, Olympic champions
Ice and snow sports have given Jiamusi the highest honor. The city will also build a “famous ice and snow cultural city” as one of its urban development positioning, so as to keep the ice and snow culture and ice and snow economy hot.
glorious history
Jiamusi people have always loved ice and snow sports. In 1953, the city’s first ice sports conference was held here. In the early 1960s, Jiamusi city established a professional team of speed skating and ice hockey, and built a first-class reserve talent base of ice and snow sports in Heilongjiang Province. More than 200 speed skaters have been transported to national and provincial professional sports teams.
Wang Yongjun, Wu Xing and other more than 40 excellent ice hockey players who have represented the national team come from Jiamusi. Ice hockey is very popular in Jiamusi. The city’s ice hockey team has won the winter games, the national ice hockey championship, the National Ice Hockey League and many other champions and runners up. In order to popularize ice hockey among teenagers, Jiamusi holds youth ice hockey events every year. In the 2021 “sports color cup” U-series ice hockey competition of Jiamusi primary and secondary school winter games, there are 19 teams and 265 people from Jiamusi No. 3 middle school and Jiamusi No. 1 primary school. “Through the competition, we can not only see the progress and strength of small ice hockey players, better stimulate their sports talent and training passion, but also fully observe and understand the personality characteristics of each small team member, so as to teach students according to their aptitude.” Fan Jinguang, deputy director of Jiamusi Sports Bureau, said.
Short track speed skating is an advantageous sports event in Jiamusi city. World champions such as Li Yan, Yang Yang and Wu Dajing who came out of Jiamusi are all players in this event. Every year, Jiamusi holds the short track speed skating series of primary and secondary school games. Fan Jinguang told reporters that the contestants are excellent athletes selected at all levels. Holding the competition can drive the city’s primary and secondary school students to participate in ice and snow physical exercise, promote the development of ice and snow sports in the city’s primary and secondary schools, and enrich students’ winter sports and cultural activities.
Li Jun, coach of Jiamusi speed skating team and Enlightenment coach of Wu Dajing, told reporters: “congratulations on Dajing’s outstanding achievements in the Beijing Winter Olympics and winning glory for the motherland. I will continue to take root at the grass-roots level, find and cultivate reserve talents of short track speed skating with excellent potential like Wu Dajing, and make more contributions to China’s ice and snow sports.”
Jiamusi not only carries out Olympic events such as ice hockey and short track speed skating, but also continuously enriches ice and snow sports events. On January 8 this year, Jiamusi snow football five-a-side football match began, and 16 teams competed fiercely. Zhao Jinglin, deputy director of Jiamusi Municipal Bureau of sports, said that the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is getting better and better, the enthusiasm of Jiamusi people to participate in ice and snow sports is also rising, and colorful activities are attracting more people to participate in ice and snow sports.
cultural guidance
Since the beginning of winter, interesting ice and snow activities such as speed skating, ice hockey, snow football, elderly skating and ice pumping have been carried out very lively in Jiamusi. “Enjoy ice and enjoy snow” is a cultural activity launched by Jiamusi City for millions of teenagers to go to the ice and snow. Jiamusi city’s ice and snow lovers and primary and secondary school students actively participate and have high enthusiasm.
On the first day of 2022, winter swimmers in Jiamusi gathered by the Songhua River to carry out the “winter swimming day” with the theme of “welcoming the Beijing Winter Olympics and enjoying the ice and snow in the East pole”. Many winter swimmers welcome the Beijing Winter Olympic Games by winter swimming here and enjoy the fun of ice and snow sports.
More than 100 cars galloped on the vast snowfield, rolling up white snow and flying all over the sky, a scene that can only be seen in film and television dramas. Recently, with the launch of 2022 Jiamusi ice and snow car carnival, it was staged frequently. The ice and snow cultural theme activity with the theme of “flying ice and snow, passionate Winter Olympics” was participated by 11 car clubs from Jiamusi and more than 200 drivers.
According to reports, as one of the series of cultural activities of “East pole winter · Sanjiang snow splashing Festival”, Jiamusi City has specially built three car ice and snow tracks, a “ice town” food area and a recreation area integrating more than 10 ice and snow entertainment projects on the lake surface of Sifeng Mountain Scenic spot. On the ninth cold day, the drivers and audience participating in the performance were full of passion, and everyone cheered for every wonderful moment.
Jiamusi Tongjiang City has made 25 large-scale snow sculptures in many cultural squares and parks to help the Beijing Winter Olympic Games with “snow language”. These snow sculptures skillfully integrate elements such as the Chinese dragon, the mascot of the Winter Olympic Games and the Chinese Zodiac with ice and snow, and present a unique and charming ice and snow art exhibition for citizens and tourists.
In addition to on-site activities, Tongjiang also launched online ice and snow cultural activities, “Hezhe folk custom welcomes the Winter Olympics, Tongjiang happy New Year”, “intangible cultural heritage paper cutting · color painting Winter Olympics” and other online exhibitions to show tourists the charm of ice and snow culture.
The reporter learned that the series of activities of “enjoying ice and enjoying snow” have been carried out in Jiamusi for eight consecutive years. Through this cultural theme activity, Jiamusi builds ice and snow landscapes, campus ice and snow venues and social public ice and snow sports venues every year, disseminates ice and snow culture, and creates an urban tourism brand of “Huaxia East pole”.
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This year, Jiamusi’s “ice and snow world” is the best in terms of capital investment, construction method and process level. With the theme of “dream ice and snow, passionate Winter Olympics”, an ice and snow park with an area of 70000 square meters has been built, with 17000 cubic meters of snow and 3000 cubic meters of ice. The large-scale ice and snow landscape group and novel ice and snow amusement park with the theme of dream landscape, Winter Olympic dream and ice and snow interaction bring tourists a new feeling.
Focusing on the core area of “ice and snow world”, Jiamusi City proposes to connect the “ice and snow world” with the ice and snow landscape of streets in various urban areas, so as to form an integral ice and snow scenic spot in the whole city and increase the carrying capacity and service function of winter tourism.
The reporter saw that around the “ice and snow world”, Jiamusi has created a city night tourism punch in place. Its surrounding Yixing lane, Chunguang lane, Youfang alley, dongxingcheng commercial street and other characteristic blocks, as well as the night lighting project of Chang’an Road, Guangfu Road and Xuefu street, together with the supporting unique ice sculptures and snow sculptures in each block, are promoting the further prosperity of the city’s night economy and catering culture.
At present, Jiamusi is seizing this opportunity to actively promote the “ice and snow” theme city brand.
“Relying on its unique ice and snow resources, Jiamusi will lay a solid foundation for ice and snow sports and ice and snow culture, and accelerate the development of the ‘Golden Mountain and silver mountain’ of ‘ice and snow’.” Chen Xingping, director of the Publicity Department of Jiamusi municipal Party committee, said.
