Beijing and Zhangjiakou are to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2022, boosting the popularity of winter sports not only in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning－the three provinces in Northeast China that have long winters and which have produced the majority of China's winter sports champions－but also in other places where winter is a lot shorter, such as Shandong province in East China and Henan province in Central China.

The State Council, China's Cabinet, issued a winter sports development plan (2016-25) in 2016, and experts say that the next six years will be a golden era for the winter sports in China thanks to the government's support.