Xindu Special Education School, a school for children with disabilities in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, has trained a group of hearing-impaired students to become skiers, helping them to strengthen their self-confidence and pursue their dreams. Coach Cao Jian (front) demonstrates moves as members of the ski team look on at a dry ski training facility in Xindu district, Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Feb.
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Chinese double amputee mountaineer Xia Boyu, who successfully climbed to the top of Mount Qomolangma on two artificial legs, became the first torchbearer at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games flame lighting ceremony at the Badaling Great Wall on Wednesday. At the ceremony, one Chinese and four foreigners representing the five continents expressed their wishes for world peace through dance.
As China's growing winter sports industry gains momentum from the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, some members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) have set their sights on the development of the sector, with proposals to boost the snow and ice equipment manufacturing industry and especially, develop ice sports in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Bian Zhiliang, a CPPCC member and chairman of Taishan Sports Industry Group, told the Global Times that he has proposed to boost the domestic ice and snow manufacturing sector, support scientific and technological innovation by the companies, and promote the localization of ice and snow equipment manufacturing.
