(East-West Question) Short Comment: Shougang Ski Jumping Platform, will you come here to "check in"?

　　China News Agency, Beijing, February 18th, Question: Shougang Ski Jumping Platform, will you come here to "check in"?

　　Author Cui Bailu

　　With Gu Ailing and Su Yiming realizing their dreams of gold medals, the four events of the Beijing Winter Olympics snowboard and freestyle ski jumping platform have all come to an end, and the Winter Olympics Shougang Stadium has also successfully completed the task of the event.

Although there are not many competitions and the events are small, the Shougang Ski Jumping platform unexpectedly "out of the circle", and has received widespread heated discussion and praise at home and abroad.

On February 8, Gu Ailing (left) won the championship at the Shougang Ski Jumping Platform in Beijing.

On February 15, Su Yiming (right) won the championship at the Shougang Ski Jumping Platform in Beijing.

(Mosaic pictures) Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun

　　Success is never accidental. Behind the "high value" and wonderful events of the Shougang Ski Jumping Platform is a vivid interpretation of the concept and spirit of the Chinese Winter Olympics.

　　Green first, the Shougang ski jumping platform has laid a beautiful background for the Beijing Winter Olympics.

　　Ecological protection and sustainable development are the common aspirations of people all over the world.

With the increasingly prominent global ecological and environmental problems, the environmental pollution and energy consumption that may be caused by the Olympic events have attracted much attention, and the concept of green Olympics came into being.

　　The predecessor of the Shougang Grand Platform competition site was the Shougang Industrial Park with a century-old history. Its two associations with the Olympic Games originated from the green hosting of the Olympic Games.

In order to support the bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, Shougang, whose main business is steelmaking, has been relocated as a whole, and Beijing has a clear blue sky.

On the eve of the Winter Olympics, the waste raw material silo became the office area of ​​the Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, the industrial plant was transformed into the "Four Ices" training base, and the stadium became the world's first ski jumping platform that has been permanently reserved for use.

Data map: On July 31, 2019, the Shougang Ski Jumping Platform was under intense construction.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Jia Tianyong

　　Sustainability and frugality, the promises made here are fulfilled.

In this way, the world has seen China's unremitting efforts for the Green Olympics, as well as a beautiful China with harmonious development of ecological environment, economy and society.

　　Inclusive and symbiotic, the Shougang Ski Jumping Platform endows the Beijing Winter Olympics with a rich cultural core.

　　Most of the traditional ski jumping platforms use natural mountains as the main landscape, but Beijing has created a unique way to create the first competition venue in the history of the Winter Olympics that is directly combined with the reuse of industrial heritage. The overall design and construction brings together top teams from China, Italy, Belgium, Germany and other countries. The organic integration of traditional Chinese culture, industrial culture and Olympic culture, "it's like a scene created in a virtual world and a video game," said Nick Gepper, an American freestyle skier.

　　From the side, the big jumping platform looks like the "Flying" streamer in Dunhuang frescoes in China, and it resembles the crystal slipper of Cinderella in the western fairy tale. It is affectionately called "Snow Feitian" and "Crystal Slipper" by Chinese and foreign netizens.

The visual effects of cyberpunk and industrial oasis bring unprecedented freshness and cultural shock.

Data map: On November 12, 2021, the evening scene of Beijing Winter Olympic Park.

The Beijing Winter Olympic Park is adjacent to the Shougang Park, where the ski jumping platform and the Shougang Bridge complement each other.

Photo by China News Agency Niu Yungang Photo source: CNSPHOTO

　　The Olympic Games is a grand event in the world. Tolerance and unity are the eternal themes. The birth of the Shougang Ski Jumping Platform is the cultural expression of this theme.

The world's understanding and pursuit of beautiful things are interlinked, and the collision of wisdom and cultural integration has created this elegant and agile achievement of human civilization.

　　People-oriented, Shougang Ski Jumping Platform brings warmth to the Beijing Winter Olympics.

　　The Ski Jump takes the athlete and spectator experience very seriously.

Due to the high difficulty and high risk factor of the sports, a safe and stable playing field is very important for athletes.

The structure of the Shougang Grand Jumping Platform is stable, spacious, safe and comfortable, and the snow quality is smooth and delicate, which is beneficial for athletes to demonstrate difficult skills.

The design of the spectator platform allows the audience to experience the fun of the competition at close range, and makes the ski jumping platform, a niche event that only more than 400 athletes participate in, become an ice and snow sport that is "not as good as others".

　　After the competition, the ski jumping platform will be permanently reserved and open to the public. It will become a public space integrating event training, commercial trade, culture and art, and leisure and entertainment. It will continue to contribute to the popularization and promotion of ice and snow sports in the world and the transformation of cities in other countries. Development provides a good example.

Data map: On the evening of January 20, 2022, the Shougang Ski Jumping Platform located in Shougang Park, Shijingshan District, Beijing, opened a light show, showing the beautiful night scene effect of technology for urban renewal and development.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu

　　The core of the Olympics is people. Respect and care for people make the Beijing Winter Olympics full of humanity, and make ice and snow sports "fly into the homes of ordinary people".

　　The appearance of the Shougang Ski Jumping Platform is a vivid practice of the green development, mutual learning of civilizations and people-oriented concepts of the Beijing Winter Olympics, bearing the epitome of the times and spiritual culture of China's development.

Come here, in addition to "checking in", people can see the history, enjoy the present, and look forward to a better future.

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