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"Besides excellent Chinese athletes, Chinese officials also help promote Olympism throughout the world," said Zhang Xiuping, executive committee member of the Association of Olympic Journalists.

China currently has three IOC members. Besides Yu Zaiqing, serving as IOC vice-president since 2008 Mike Muscala Jersey , China's former short track speed skating Olympic gold medalist Yang Yang and former world badminton champion Li Lingwei are IOC members.

China's Winter Games performance is a far cry from its achievements in Summer Games, winning only 12 golds in four out of 15 current Winter Olympic sports since 1980. But winter sports in China are gaining in popularity.

According to data released to the Global Times, in Chongli, the county in Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei Province Mike Dunleavy Jersey , where most of the ski events of the 2022 Games will be held, the number of winter season tourists surged from 1.01 million from the 2012-13 season to 1.78 million in the 2015-16 season.

A high-speed railway line connecting Beijing and Zhangjiakou is expected to be completed by 2019, which could shorten travel time from four hours to one, and this is expected to attract more skiers.

Li Yan, the woman at the helm of China's short track speed skating team since 2006 Mike Bibby Jersey , said she believes the sport's popularity rests on mass support.

In 2016, China organized its first professional ice hockey team, Beijing-based Kunlun Red Star, which plays in the