News & Events
About Us
Shop
Post-Pandemic, Can China’s Winter Olympic Town Thrive Again?
A year on from the Winter Olympic Games, has Zhangjiakou bounced back from the pandemic and lived up to its promise as China’s ski capital?
Winter Olympics Close With a Bang and Other Trending News
Spectacular Winter Olympics closing ceremony, crackdown on fake Bing Dwen Dwens, kidnapped man turned into “blood slave,” farmer accidentally roasts ducks—it’s Viral Week
Vanished Mountain: Zhangjiakou’s First Ski Resort
Opened in 1997, the Saibei Resort in Chongli county introduced China’s first generation of ski enthusiasts to the sport
From Boycott to Host: China’s Road to the Winter Olympics
How China went from boycotting the Games in the 1950s to hosting it in 2022, and how its athletes trained to compete
The Online Slang of the Beijing Winter Olympics
Learn some of the Winter Olympics slang popular with Chineses netizens
Alpine Ambitions
TWOC’s first cover story of 2020 explores China’s plan to get millions involved in winter sports—and the realities on the slopes
Show of the Week: The King of Kanone
Reality TV on ice, the King of Kanone wants to capitalize on the Winter Olympics craze, but barely skates through
Cold Lessons
Beijing’s winter carnivals help the government to proselytize winter sports ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games
Road to Winter
The Olympics put it on the map, but there’s more to see now in Zhangjiakou and its nearby northern charms