LET IT SNOW
The mountains near Beijing will have enough high-quality snow for the 2022 Winter Olympicsmeteorological and sports experts reaffirmed one month ahead of the International Olympic Committee’ s announcement of the host city for the 2022 Games in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on July 31.
China will compete with Kazakhstan for the event. If chosen China’ s cities Beijing and
Zhangjiakou Hebei Province will host. MeanwhileKazakhstan offers up Almaty a city near the country’ s southeastern border as rival.
Indoor ice sports and games will be held in downtown Beijing while snow-based events will take place in Yanqing County in suburban Beijing and Chongli County in Zhangjiakou.
According to Wang Ji Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Climate Center of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau low snowfall will not prevent Beijing from hosting a successful Olympic Games because downtown Beijing and Yanqing County have different climates. “Whereas [downtown] Beijing sees little snow in winter Yanqing is fairly humid ” Wang said.
The average annual snowfall in the mountainous area in Yanqing is around 20. 2 cm about 7.95inches . Citing a research project he conducted that tracked weather data in the region from 1961 to
2012 Wang said that seven years from now the competition areas may see 2 to 3 cm more snow than they do presently.
Zhangjiakou which is about 200 km northwest of Beijing will see even more snow. The average annual snowfall in the designated competition area reaches 21 cm on average and can go as high as 72 cm.
Furthermore while snow is necessary for skiing and snowboarding events natural snow is not perfect. Manmade snow has been widely used in Winter Olympic Games. During the Sochi Games last yearorganizers made enough snow to cover about 500football fields to a depth of 2 feet.
“Artificial snow is more moist and durable and is thus more suitable for making race courses ”said Gao Xuedong Director of the Skiing Department of the Winter Games Center under China’ s General Administration of Sports.
In the eyes of industry experts Beijing and Zhangjiakou offer ideal conditions for grooming and maintaining premium snow. “The climate and geographic conditions around [downtown] Beijing Yanqing and Zhangjiakou are good for producing artificial snowbecause the air has little humidity and it is relatively cold which is the optimal combination ” said Mojca Ogris-Schimberg a senior manager at Demaclenko which makes snowmaking machines. To ensure there will be glistening white ski trails in 2022 authorities have made thorough plans to allocate ample water resources for snowmaking. According to Pan Anjun Deputy Director
of the Beijing Water Authority two rainwater collection systems will be built in Yanqing.
Together they can collect up to 200 000 cubic meters of rain water in a single day. An existing reservoir that can store more than 2 million cubic meters of water could also be used for snowmaking.Given the fact that only about 186 000 cubic meters of water will be needed for centralized snowmakingsnow volume will surely not be a problem.
Zhangjiakou also implemented a water diversion project in 2013. The new project will divert 5million tons of water a year from the nearby Yunzhou Reservoir upon completion in 2015.
“There has not been a single Winter Olympics that has not used artificial snow. The Olympic
Committee mentioned that Beijing lacks snow but it also said that water resources are completely sufficient. Even in the most adverse circumstancesthe amount of water used in snowmaking would only account for less than 0. 5 percent of the total in the area ” said Wang Hui Deputy Secretary General of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bid Committeeat a press conference in Beijing on June 30.
Beijing and Zhangjiakou have also already established themselves as popular destinations for professional skiing teams and skiing enthusiasts from all over the world.
“Back in 2004 I saw around 50 professional skiers from South Korea and Japan using Chongli’ s ski resorts as training grounds but these days the number is closer to 600 ” said Song Zhiyong
Deputy General Manager of Genting Ski Resort in
Chongli.
Kim Tae Soon Vice President of the Korean Ski Association has been sending South Korean skiers to train in Chongli since 2003. “We used to send our skiers to Europe to train as we have always found it difficult to find training locations with annual snowfall greater than 40 cm in our own country ” Kim said. “But since Chongli began hosting International Ski Federation competitions in 2005 more and more Korean skiers have headed there each year to train for international skiing events. ”
Wakatsuki Hitoshi Deputy Director of the Japanese Ski Association’ s Alpine Skiing
Department said Chongli has been listed as a professional training base for Japanese skiers. “The weather and snow in Chongli are ideal for both training and competitions ” Hitoshi said.
文档资料 LET IT SNOW 完整下载完整阅读全文下载全文阅读 免费阅读及下载
感谢你的阅读和下载
*资源、信息来源于网络。本文若侵犯了您的权益请留言或者发站内信息。我将尽快删除。 *
目前,我们都在用哪个FTP软件?喜欢用的是WinSCP,是一款免费的FTP/SFTP软件。今天在帮助一个网友远程解决问题的时候看到他用的是FlashFXP FTP工具,这个工具以前我也用过,不过正版是需要付费的,但是网上有很多的绿色版本和破解版本。考虑到安全的问题,个人不建议选择破解版。但是这款软件还是比较好用的。今天主要是遇到他的虚拟主机无法通过FTP连接主机,这里我就帮忙看看到底是什么问题。一...
青云互联怎么样?青云互联是一家成立于2020年的主机服务商,致力于为用户提供高性价比稳定快速的主机托管服务,目前提供有美国免费主机、香港主机、韩国服务器、香港服务器、美国云服务器,香港安畅cn2弹性云限时首月五折,15元/月起;可选Windows/可自定义配置,让您的网站高速、稳定运行。点击进入:青云互联官方网站地址青云互联优惠码:八折优惠码:ltY8sHMh (续费同价)青云互联香港云服务器活动...
DogYun怎么样?DogYun是一家2019年成立的国人主机商,称为狗云,提供VPS及独立服务器租用,其中VPS分为经典云和动态云(支持小时计费及随时可删除),DogYun云服务器基于Kernel-based Virtual Machine(Kvm)硬件的完全虚拟化架构,您可以在弹性云中,随时调整CPU,内存,硬盘,网络,IPv4路线(如果该数据中心接入了多条路线)等。DogYun弹性云服务器优...