The holding of the Winter Olympics has ignited the citizens' passion for skiing.

In the past few days, the ski resorts in Xuzhou, Wuxi, Xuyi, Lianyungang, Suqian and other places in Jiangsu have been booming in business, and even "one board is hard to find".

And with the news of Chinese athlete Gu Ailing and other Winter Olympic athletes winning gold medals in the circle of friends, it even brought the popularity of "all people to the snow field".

According to data from the Tujia B&B platform, the real-time search popularity of themed B&Bs with the keyword "skiing" tripled month-on-month.

  Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Fan Xiaolin Zhu Dingzhao Zhang Lingfei Ji Nana Ma Zhiya Gaofeng

  Correspondents Chen Jun Ding Wen Zhang Wang Yongqi Wang Guoqiang

  Xu Yi

  "Miniature Winter Olympics" eye-catching snow field "hard to find a board"

  "I thought that when I went to work on the ninth day of the new year, there should be fewer people, but I didn't expect so many people to come skiing." On the morning of the 9th, at the Tieshansi Ski Resort located in the Tieshansi National Forest Park in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province, Li, who came from Nanjing, The lady's family lined up at the ticket gate.

Affected by the Winter Olympics, the Xuyi Tieshan Temple Ski Resort, which has been in operation for 7 years, is particularly popular with tourists this year.

  On the morning of the 9th, the reporter saw at the scene that the parking lot of the ski resort was full at around 10 a.m., and subsequent vehicles could only park on both sides of the road.

A snow football match is being held on the ski field, with dribbling, transposition, stealing, passing, and shooting. The "tourist athletes" compete for each other on the snow field, winning applause from the audience.

The referee of the snow football match, Cao Zijiao, introduced that the biggest difference between snow football and grass football is that players not only need to control the football under their feet, but also maintain their balance to avoid slipping, which is more interesting and is loved by young people.

According to Li Xue, the person in charge of the Tieshan Temple Ski Resort in Xuyi, the ski resort also held a "miniature Winter Olympics" this year.

  The reporter visited and learned that the number of tourists to the Tieshan Temple Ski Resort in Xuyi this year increased by 30% year-on-year, and 70% of the tourists came from Nanjing and surrounding cities.

  Lianyungang

  Both teaching and entertainment in Qianyuan Ski Resort

  In the past two days, Qianyuan Ski Resort in Ganyu District, Lianyungang City has ushered in a peak passenger flow.

On the morning of February 9, a reporter from the Yangtze Evening News saw on the ski resort that there were people holding snow poles and pedaling skis everywhere.

Stepping on a snowboard, sliding down the hillside elegantly, letting the beautiful scenery pass by, and listening to the wind whistling, have become the same feeling of many ski lovers.

  Li Shumo, a little skier, told reporters that she is very happy and has basically mastered the skills of skiing.

  In order to cope with the peak passenger flow, Qianyuan Ski Resort, under the premise of normalized prevention and control of the epidemic, provides tourists with a safer playing experience by adding ski instructors, adding safety nets and other measures.

  "Coinciding with the Winter Olympics, citizens' enthusiasm for skiing is unprecedentedly high. During the Spring Festival, the flow of people is relatively large. According to the epidemic prevention requirements of relevant government departments, the daily number of people is limited to seven or eight hundred people, and the flow of people is strictly controlled." The person in charge of Qianyuan Ski Resort Shang Xiulei said.

  It is reported that it will continue to carry out on-site teaching, organize winter camps and other methods to spread skiing knowledge, so that skiers can master skiing skills faster, and let more people participate in ice and snow sports.

  Wuxi

  The number of people in the snow field "breaks a record"

  Sunac Snow World is currently the only indoor ski resort in East China that integrates snow entertainment and skiing, with a total of 17,500 square meters.

The field is made of real ice and snow, with a constant temperature of minus 6 degrees Celsius throughout the year, creating a fantasy kingdom of ice and snow fairy tales.

Mr. Zhang, a citizen of Wuxi, told reporters that he started to learn ski jumping a year ago, and he got an annual card in Wuxi Sunac Snow World and went there almost every day.

There were very few people on the training platform every day before, and sometimes it was just him.

The Winter Olympics coincided with the Spring Festival, and the students were on winter vacation. The number of students was too large these days. There were often long queues at the door to change clothes and get equipment.

He told reporters that the number of people received by the ski resort every day has been breaking records in the past few days, from more than 2,500 to more than 3,600.

  Xuzhou

  "Ski season" expects 120,000 tourists

  Xuzhou currently has three ski resorts. Affected by the upsurge of the Winter Olympics, the number of tourists this year has increased by nearly 30% compared with last year, reaching the level before the epidemic.

The number of tourists is expected to reach 120,000 throughout the ski season.

At present, Xuzhou's skiing crowd is mainly local tourists, and the number of tourists from surrounding cities has increased significantly. As the whole people focus on the Winter Olympics, it can be expected that the number of foreign tourists will continue to grow.

  Suqian

  Before school starts, "playing for 3 hours a day is not tired"

  The "ice and snow fever" brought by the Winter Olympics has attracted many parents to take advantage of the winter vacation to bring their children to experience the fun of skiing.

  Suqian Yunhe Bay Ski Resort is located on the bank of the beautiful Luoma Lake, covering an area of ​​150 mu, with a snow-making area of ​​30,000 square meters.

  At about 3 pm on the 9th, more than an hour before the closing of the ski resort, the ticket office was still crowded with ticket buyers.

In the face of the reminder from the ticket seller, a citizen still insists on going in to "experience".

The parking lot in front of the ski resort was full of cars, and there was even a row of cars parked along the road leading to the ski resort.

  "The child has been playing for more than three hours and wants him to go back. He still wants to play, saying that he is not tired." A young mother said that as school was about to start, she took her elementary school son to the ski resort to experience skiing. pleasure.

  Hu Shaochen, a fifth-grade student of Huanghe Primary School in Suqian Economic Development Zone, watched the big brothers and sisters of the national team in the Winter Olympics so powerful, so he wanted to "experience ice sports".

  The person in charge of the Canal Bay Ecological Ski Resort told reporters that the passenger flow during the Spring Festival this year has increased by 150% compared with previous years.

It is also estimated to be the most visited year since its operation in 2015.