Xinhua News Agency, Chongqing, February 13th skiing-a new way for southerners to play in winter
Xinhua news agency reporters Li Hualing and Hou Yijia
during the Spring Festival holiday this year, many southerners have changed their way of playing. Compared with the popular “travel in city” and “ancient town travel” in the past, skiing-based ice and snow sports tourism has become a popular choice.
In the past few days, the nantianhu ski resort in Fengdu county, Chongqing, which has been opened for nearly a month, is crowded. No one expected that this city, known as the “stove”, was actually connected with the ice and snow sports.
19-year-old Lin Xinyan experienced the first skiing in his life. With the help of Heilongjiang coach, she stepped on the double board and slipped down the primary road, and quickly learned the actions of acceleration, deceleration, turning, etc. “Before the Spring Festival, the whole family would go to Hainan to feel the beach and the sea. This year, I finally experienced a skiing experience. This feeling is so wonderful!” In the ski resort, in addition to a novice like her, there are many “veterans”.
Ski lover Tian Caiwei has experienced ski resorts in many cities in China before. “Compared with the Northeast, the southern ski resort needs to be improved in all aspects such as snow quality and slideway. However, southerners are very enthusiastic about skiing.” Tian Caiwei said.
Nantianhu ski resort is about 3 hours’ drive from the main urban area of Chongqing, with an altitude of about 1800 meters and an area of snow making to 60000 square meters. It has many ski trails of different levels and professional coaches and equipment, it is the largest alpine ski resort in Chongqing.
He Jie, the head of the ski resort, introduced: “Since its opening, it has attracted thousands of people to experience skiing, which is quite rare. I am full of confidence in the ice and snow tourism in Chongqing.” In addition to skiing, tourists can also experience Banana Boat, tire boats, snowmobiling and other snow events.
Not only nantianhu ski resort, Chongqing also has several large ski resorts, which are distributed in Wulong Fairy Mountain, Wuxi Hongchi Dam, Nanchuan jinfoshan and other places.
In the past, skiing and other ice and snow sports were mainly concentrated in North China and Northeast China, and Southerners seldom experienced the secrets. However, with China’s vigorous promotion of ice and snow sports and the implementation of supporting policies, ice and snow sports began to show a trend of development from north to south and from east to west.
Only during the Spring Festival, the hot ice and snow sports have become a highlight of holiday tourism. Ice and snow sports tourism in Yunnan, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other places are all on the rise. Cities such as Chengdu, Chongqing and Guangzhou that usually do not snow in winter also adjust measures to local conditions and have their own ski resorts.
Insiders believe that Southern cities have enough curiosity, enthusiasm and consumption ability for ice and snow sports. Compared with the relatively perfect ski tourism in Northeast China, the market space of ice and snow industry in the South can be developed is huge. The development plan of ice and snow sports (2016-2025) issued by the State General Administration of Sports in 2016 mentioned that by 2025, the number of people directly participating in ice and snow sports will exceed 50 million, and “drive 0.3 billion people to participate in ice and snow sports”, among which there will certainly be a large number of Southern “novices.
He Jie said that many enterprises have already felt the huge market potential of Ice and Snow projects and are trying to get involved in them, hoping to get a piece of soup. “We believe that with the holding of the 2022 Winter Olympics, more people will fall in love with ice and snow sports.”