China has promised a Winter Games to showcase its green credentials, but some call it 'irresponsible' to hold an event reliant on snow and ice in a parched landscape.
The city of Zhangjiakou, one of the three Olympic hubs, has installed wind farms spanning hundreds of acres that can produce 14 million kilowatts of electricity — similar to the power Singapore can produce.
A 2015 assessment by Greenpeace said the"biggest lesson from the 2008 Olympic Games ... has been the realization that merely moving dirty industries from Beijing to neighboring provinces does not bring lasting air-quality improvements." A machine churns out artificial snow for a ski slope in Chongli county, near Zhangjiakou in northern China's Hebei province, on December 16, 2020. The high demand for artificial snow at February's Beijing Winter Olympics will have a minimal effect on the local water supply, a spokesperson for the organizers said in November 2021.
When China won the bid to host the Olympics, one of the key propaganda lines was that it would help put"300 million people on the ice."
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