On the morning of December 23, the opening ceremony of the 2023 Xinjiang Hot Snow Festival Hot Snow Series was held in Altay Jikepulin International Ski Resort.
Leading guests, tourism associations, business representatives, news**, representatives of well-known domestic ski clubs, skiers and skiers gathered at the scene, and the whole network was broadcast live in real time, and thousands of netizens witnessed the grand occasion online.
At the opening ceremony, the leaders of the Xinjiang Altay Prefectural Committee first welcomed everyone on behalf of the "Snow Capital" Altay. He said: "The debut of the new ice and snow cultural tourism brand super IP in the Altay region is a recognition of Altay's unique ice and snow resources, and will also deeply ignite the passion for ice and snow tourism in the Altay region." Altay is internationally recognized as the origin of human skiing and one of the best natural ski areas in China. The people of the 'Snow Capital' welcome friends from all over the world to experience the unique charm of the origin of human skiing. This year's Hot Snow Festival has built an incomparably broad stage for athletes, and I wish all athletes and friends to compete at the level, friendship and challenge the limit. ”
Subsequently, under the witness of all the guests, Su Yuhao, a player in the snowboard FWT competition of the Hot Snow Festival, and Guo Xiaofei, the referee of the parallel giant slalom event of the Hot Snow Challenge and the Beijing Winter Olympics snowboard flat NTO, took the stage on behalf of all the athletes and all the referees, and read out the oath sonorously and forcefully, and looked forward to the arrival of the opening moment with the audience.
As a group of leading guests collectively took the stage, the guests on the stage sounded the starting gun together, and brilliant smoke bloomed over the snow field, and the 2023 Xinjiang Hot Snow Festival Hot Snow Series officially kicked off.
To celebrate this grand opening moment, a wonderful creative hot snow show was held on site. Skiers on fur skis that symbolize the origin of skiing are recreated through time and space. This is followed by a formation of athletes from the modern ski team, who show off their skiing skills in unison. Then, the public skiers slid down the slopes in turn with colored cigarettes in their hands, and the shocking visual effects pushed the atmosphere to a climax. Then the passionate "Skiing in Xinjiang in Winter" sounded, and the dancers danced on the stage, and the moving dance was amazing. A performance that integrated skiing and Xinjiang's characteristic folk customs attracted thunderous applause from the scene, and the guests experienced a new audio-visual feast unique to Xinjiang's ice and snow.
The opening ceremony is also the first day of the Hot Snow Challenge, after the lively performance, the Hot Snow Challenge parallel giant slalom competition snowboard women's and snowboard men's groups take the lead, the competition adopts the method of two people starting at the same time, the red and blue courses are independently timed, and the participating athletes need to skate once in the red and blue runs, according to the sum of the two skating results. At 12 o'clock in the morning, skiers from home and abroad started a fierce snow competition in Jikepulin International Resort. The participating athletes went all out, stepped on the wind and snow, showed superb skiing skills and competitive demeanor on the slopes, and presented a wonderful competition for the audience.
It is reported that the hot snow series includes the hot snow challenge, hot snow tour: FWT freestyle skiing world tour two top ski events, in accordance with the international first-class standard specifications, a total of more than 30 ski clubs at home and abroad, more than 300 professional players to participate, at that time, Gabriel Alquist, Jose Aragon, Renberg Miko, Hindley Twiyten, Benjamin Carmel and other internationally renowned professional skaters will participate in the event. At the same time, the Hot Snow Series invited Iztok Sumatek, the chief referee of the Beijing Winter Olympics, to lead the slope obstacle referee team, and invited Ma Xuewu, a national jade carving master and president of Xinjiang Hetian Jade Culture and Art Research Institute, to customize and create medals for the event, giving the event a unique collection experience and content highlights.
The Hot Snow Series has officially begun, with parallel giant slalom competitions on December 24 for women's skis, men's skis, and slopestyle on December 28. From December 30th to 31st, Jikepurin International Ski Resort will welcome the Hot Snow Tour, which has four categories: men's snowboard, men's ski, women's snowboard and women's snowboard, with two rounds of group preliminaries and finals. Professional athletes, skiers and tourists from all over the world are welcome to watch the event, and let's look forward to the wonderful moments of the debut of the FWT event in China.
Under the call of the policy of "300 million people on ice and snow", the 17th Winter Expo and Hot Snow Festival relied on Xinjiang's high-quality ice and snow resources and combined with sports events to create a hot snow series. The Hot Snow Series provides a good communication platform for skiers from all over the world, and also has a positive impact on the professional development and popularization of skiing in Xinjiang and even the whole country. At the same time, with the help of organizing the event, the Xinjiang Hot Snow Festival actively promotes the brand building of "travel with the event", further promotes the integrated development of culture, sports and tourism, injects new vitality into the development of Xinjiang's cultural tourism, and once again shows the beautiful business card of Xinjiang's image to the world. Hot snow Xinjiang, vibrant Silk Road, this winter, let's meet at the Xinjiang Hot Snow Festival, enjoy the top events, and enjoy the feast of ice and snow!