Pu Rui, who was born in 2001, comes from Pu'er, Yunnan, a "land without snow" In August 2018, Pu Rui performed well in the cross-border and cross-sport selection test of the State Sports General Administration and entered the national training team for winter sports. Qiu Xiyang is from Hezhou, Guangxi.

In his early years, he was a Greco-Roman wrestler with great success. He was selected to join the national team for the freestyle ski slalom pursuit.