– Written on the occasion of the opening of the 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin 2025
The 9th Asian Winter Games, the largest and highest-level winter sports event in Asia, is an important window to showcase China’s image, spread Chinese culture and promote sportsmanship. As the host city, Harbin will provide a stage for athletes from Asian countries and regions to show themselves and surpass themselves with first-class facilities, first-class organizations and first-class services, and make positive contributions to promoting the development of winter sports in Asia and promoting friendly exchanges among Asian countries and regions.
The Asian Winter Games is not only a sports event, but also a cultural exchange. Here, athletes from all over the world will compete together in the arena and enhance friendship. Besides, they will also deeply experience Harbin’s ice and snow culture, historical culture and folk culture, and enjoy the natural scenery and cultural landscape of Harbin. We believe that the Asian Winter Games, as a platform, will further strengthen sports exchanges and cooperation among Asian countries and regions, enhance understanding and friendship between people of different countries and promote the vigorous development of winter sports in Asia.
Harbin, a city full of amorous feelings, known as the “city”, “Oriental Moscow””east small Paris” of reputation. Here is a beautiful snow and ice landscape, a long history and culture, rich folk customs, is a unique charm of the city. The holding of Harbin Asian Winter Games will bring new development opportunities for Harbin. Harbin will take the Asian Winter Games as an opportunity to further strengthen the construction of urban infrastructure, improve the level of urban management, improve the quality of urban environment, and enhance the image and taste of the city. At the same time, Harbin will actively promote the popularization and development of ice and snow sports, train more ice and snow sports talents, promote the prosperity and development of ice and snow tourism, and inject new vitality and impetus into the economic and social development of Harbin.
The 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin 2025 is a grand event of sports, a cultural exchange, and a grand event of unity. Let us join hands and work together to make the Asian Winter Games a splendid, extraordinary and outstanding sports event, and contribute to the development of winter sports in Asia and the friendly exchanges among Asian countries and regions.
Let us bloom the passion of ice and snow together, and build the Asian dream together!