CCTV News: Ice and snow dream together, Asia is the same. The 9th Asian Winter Games in 2025 in Harbin will be held from February 7 to 14. On February 3, there are still 4 days before the opening of the Asian Winter Games. The launch ceremony of the Asian Winter Games and offline relay activities will be held in Harbin.

The theme of this torch relay is "Dream of Ice and Snow, Asia is united", including the launch ceremony, exhibition along the way and the fire closing ceremony.

The offline torch relay route is about 11 kilometers. The launching ceremony was held at the famous historical and cultural district of Daowai District, Harbin City - China Baroque. The fire collection ceremony was held at the famous cultural and tourism landmark of Songhua River Bund Wetland Park, a famous online celebrity snowman square in the Songhua River Bund Wetland Park. Along the way, we pass by many landmarks that carry Harbin's culture and history and witness the development and prosperity of the city.

The torch "Purch" means that the Asian Winter Games are full of vitality and passion

Now, the offline torch relay for the Harbin Asian Winter Games is in progress, and the torch "Purch" is igniting the passion of the Ice City. So, what is the design concept of "Pengpai"? Let’s learn about it together.

The Harbin Asian Winter Games torch is named "Pengpai", which means that this event will be full of vitality and passion, and is closely integrated with the Asian Winter Games slogan "Ice and Snow Dream, Asia and One Heart". The appearance design fully demonstrates Chinese modernization and cultural confidence. The lightweight functional materials team of Harbin Engineering University also supports the material design of the shell, ensuring the realization of the transparency of the torch shell, resistance to high and low temperature alternation, flame retardant technology and other requirements. The overall shape uses blooming lilac flowers, combining Chinese red, lilac purple, ice and white colors, meaning the sincere, open and inclusive Heilongjiang and the ice and snow and humanistic characteristics of the host city Harbin.

Harbin Asian Winter Club torch designer and lecturer at Beijing University of Science and Technology Zhang Junhai introduced: "We are a world of ice and snow, so the design of the shell adopts the transparent texture from the snow and white at the bottom to the ice at the top. Moreover, we took into account the lilac flowers in Harbin, and fully integrated it into the shape of the ring on the top. It is a blooming lilac flower, forming the form of a fire outlet."

The online torch relay activity of the Asian Winter Club is in full swing

The Harbin Asian Winter Games also set up an online torch relay event. Since the launch of the event on January 20, it has attracted widespread public participation. As of 17:00 on February 1, the cumulative number of visits to the entire online event has exceeded 40 million.

The online torch relay event of the Harbin Asian Winter Games is themed "Ignite the passion of ice and snow, meet the Asian Winter Games". The overall design style of the conveying page is mainly ice crystal blue, paired with lilac purple and fireworks elements to set off the atmosphere, and the mascots of this Asian Winter Games "Binbin" and "Nini" are used as dynamic subjects to enhance the fun. Netizens around the world can click on the menu "Digital Torch" on the official WeChat public account homepage of the "Harbin 2025 9th Asian Winter Games", or send the keyword "Online Torch Relay" to click on the link to participate in the event and become "Asian Winter Games Digital Torch Bearer". After the public completes the online delivery, they can obtain an exclusive certificate and have the opportunity to win the Asian Winter Games limited peripheral gifts.

Tong Xiaoyu, deputy director of the Operation Office of the Harbin Asian Winter Conference Torch Relay Command Center, said that the online torch relay is conducive to more people from all walks of life to participate. At the same time, it also breaks through the limitations of time and space, and realizes that "everyone is a torchbearer" in the cloud, creating a good social atmosphere for the successful holding of the Asian Winter Games.

Asian Olympic Council officials highly praised the preparations for this event

A total of 120 torchbearers participated in the offline torch relay of the Harbin Asian Winter Games, and Vinod Kumar Tiwari, deputy director-general of the Asian Olympic Council, was one of the torchbearers. In an interview with a reporter from the Central Taiwan Station, he expressed his honor to be a torchbearer of this Asian Winter Games and highly praised the preparations for the event.

Vinod Kumar Tiwari, Deputy Director-General of the Asia-Australia Council, said: "We are very satisfied and very happy because we only have one year to prepare for this Asian Winter Conference, but the work of the organizing committee is done very well, which is equivalent to a miracle for us. We have seen that these infrastructures are very beautiful, the torch relay activities are also very well prepared, and the local citizens in Harbin are also very enthusiastic and welcome us very much. We are very happy and proud to prepare our Asian Winter Conference to such a successful level in just one year."