CCTV News: The opening ceremony of the 9th Asian Winter Conference in Harbin in 2025 will be held tomorrow night (February 7). This morning, the media briefing of the Asian Olympic Council and the Harbin Asian Winter Conference Organizing Committee was held at the 9th Asian Winter Conference Headquarters. What information was revealed at the press conference? What are the highlights of the opening ceremony? Let’s contact the reporter of the Central Station Zhang Cheng.

Central Channel reporter Zhang Cheng: At this moment, I am located in the press room on the third floor of the main news center of the 9th Asian Winter Games. The media briefing of the Asia-Australia Council and the Harbin Asian Winter Conference Organizing Committee has just ended. The press conference is only half an hour, but the amount of information is very large. I want to summarize it in three keywords.

The first keyword is unprecedented scale.

The number of participating countries (regions) and athletes in this Asian Winter Games

The total number of more than 1,270 athletes from 34 Asian countries and regions have signed up for the competition, making it the largest number of participating countries (regions) and athletes. It is particularly worth mentioning that ice and snow athletes from Cambodia and Saudi Arabia will make their debut in the Asian Winter Games, which also marks the further expansion of the territory of Asian ice and snow sports.

Due to the large number of participating teams, the longer-scheduled ice hockey and curling competitions have begun on February 3 and 4 respectively. The highly-watched short track speed skating competition will also start tomorrow. The first gold medal of this Asian Winter Games will be produced on the morning of February 8.

The second keyword is to make every effort to guarantee.

This Asian Winter Games Events Catering and Medical Insurance is Effective

In terms of competition team composition, for this Asian Winter Games, international or Asian individual sports organizations have selected 12 technical representatives and 1 technical representative assistant from countries and regions including China, South Korea, Japan and other countries. The Asian Olympic Council has also selected 151 international technical officials, and there are 685 domestic technical officials. Most of them have participated in the organization and preparation of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the organization of large-scale international and domestic competitions. They have rich experience in competition organization and management, and will ensure that the competition is held in a fair, just and professional environment.

The highlights of event service guarantee are mainly reflected in catering and medical rescue. In terms of catering, the Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee has carefully designed an athlete's menu including halal menus. All ingredients and seasonings are supervised from the place of origin to the table to ensure food safety; in terms of medical assistance, more than 600 full-time medical and health security personnel have entered the venue and are equipped with ski doctors with foreign language communication skills to ensure that emergencies are dealt with in a timely manner.

The third keyword is the wonderful.

The opening ceremony of the Asian Winter Conference will be set up for the branch venue, and the ignition ceremony will be innovative.

The opening ceremony of this Asian Winter Conference will be held tomorrow night. What I want to spoil the story is that the total opening ceremony is about 80 minutes, the ceremony part is about 50 minutes, the artistic performance is about 22 minutes, and the ignition ceremony and theme song are about 8 minutes. The theme of the literary performance is "Dreams with ice and snow, and Asia is united". The overall structure is designed around the regional progressive levels of "Harbin, China, Asia": the first article is based on Ice City, telling the spiritual power and dreams of ice and snow culture; the second article is based on China, telling the ignition of ice and snow sports and the national craze; the next article is based on Asia, telling the emotional connection and walking hand in hand between ice and snow.

The biggest highlight of the opening and closing ceremony of this Asian Winter Conference is the creative design of the presentation method that combines the main and branch venues. The main venue is located at Harbin International Convention and Exhibition Sports Center, and the branch venue is located at Harbin Ice and Snow World. It is linked to the main venue performances, which will prompt the whole city of Harbin to celebrate together and resonate with the Asian people. Especially the extremely creative and distinctive ignition ceremony, I look forward to your attention.