China Gets the 2022 Winter Olympics
Beijing will stage the winter games in the desert.
Skiing Is the Latest Obsession for China’s Wealthy
Winter sports are catching on as Beijing bids to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Environment
02.05.15
Parched Beijing’s Olympics Bid Based on Fake Snow
from chinadialogueWhere better for a Winter Olympic Games than famously arid north China?
Drought and a fast growing economy have created water shortages so severe that China’s government has spent more than a decade, and up to U.S.$80 billion, constructing...
Cold in China Kills 180,000 Cattle, Threatens Power
A severly cold winter is causing blizzards in the north, threatening electricity supplies in the south where the government is unused to dealing with such temperatures.