The 13th Winter Paralympic Games will be held in Beijing from March 4 to 13 in Beijing and Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, with 78 events in 6 major events, including wheelchair curling, Paralympic ice hockey, Paralympic cross-country skiing, Paralympic biathlon, Paralympic alpine skiing, and Paralympic snowboarding. On February 20, at a press conference held by the 2022 Beijing News Center, Yong Zhijun, deputy director of the Sports Department of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, said that the Chinese Winter Paralympic delegation will be officially established tomorrow and will also achieve full coverage of 6 major events for the first time.
In the 6 major events of the 2015 Winter Paralympic Games, China only carried out two major events of Paralympic cross-country skiing and wheelchair curling. In 2002, the mainland sent four athletes to the Salt Lake City Winter Paralympic Games for the first time. In 2014, the Sochi Winter Paralympic Games in Russia opened, and the mainland sent 10 athletes to participate in 2 major events and 6 minor events such as Paralympic cross-country skiing and wheelchair curling, of which the wheelchair curling team won the fourth place, which was the best result for the mainland to participate in the Winter Paralympic Games at that time.
After the successful bid for the Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympic Games, the mainland has established a national training team for the whole project by hiring high-level coaches at home and abroad, training technical officials for the Winter Paralympic Games, and building a national ice sports competition training hall for the disabled, cooperating with Beijing, Hebei, Heilongjiang and other provinces and cities to carry out the Winter Games for the Disabled, and signing strategic cooperation agreements on sports for the disabled with Finland, Russia and other ice and snow sports countries, so as to accelerate the development of winter sports for the disabled. Through hard work, the number of winter paralympic athletes in the country has grown from less than 50 to nearly 1,000, and the number of major events in the Winter Paralympic Games has expanded from 2 to 6, achieving full coverage of major events in the mainland Winter Paralympic Games. It is reported that at present, the athletes are sprinting to prepare for training in 4 training bases such as Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Gansu.
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On the other hand, the barrier-free facilities and related service guarantees for the Olympic-related venues and surrounding areas have also been prepared: 8 competition venues and 2 Winter Olympic Villages (Winter Paralympic Villages) have achieved full streamline barrier-free, 25 Winter Olympic designated hospitals, 60 Winter Olympic contracted hotels, and 7 Winter Paralympic contracted hotels have all completed barrier-free transformation, and 9858 points within 1 km of the Olympic-related venues have completed transformation and upgrading. Attention to detail is designed, the best position of the stadium stands is reserved for wheelchair users, and the locker rooms, toilets, and barrier-free rooms are all sloped and fully rounded corners are all low."
On the other hand, technology helps the Winter Olympics. Intelligent means bloom at multiple points, mobile phones provide barrier-free line navigation, the Winter Olympic Sign Language Broadcast Digital Human System has been put into use; the cable-stayed box barrier-free elevator of Badaling High-speed Railway Station has a drop of more than 80 meters, becoming the first in China; the use of lamps, air conditioners and curtains in the Winter Paralympic Village to achieve independent control; induction sensing system, voice prompt system, etc. to meet the needs of disabled athletes, highlighting the Temperature of Beijing.