On the stadium of the 9th Asian Winter Games in 2025, athletes wrote glory with hard work. Outside the field, more than 5,400 university volunteers from different universities faced the wind and snow, crossed language barriers, and injected more warmth into this ice and snow event with enthusiasm and perseverance.

In the Yabuli Snow Division, the outdoor temperature was close to minus 20℃. Volunteer Wang Han stood outside the snow track, watching the results of the competition site and the players on the field. He stood for three or four hours at a time.

Volunteer of the 2025 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin Wang Han: The wind is very strong, we cannot go indoors, because we need to keep an eye on the athletes' performance at all times, follow up in real time, and then lead the top three athletes into the press room.

As a volunteer at the Asian Winter Games venue, Wang Han has to shuttle between the winding tracks in Yabuli every day. In addition to guiding the field, he also has to deal with emergencies in the field at any time.

The Yabuli Snow Division of this Asian Winter Games has a total of eight competition venues. Venue volunteers like Wang Han are not only responsible for one venue, but sometimes they also have to shuttle between two or three venues to assist in the event operation. Put on crampon shoes and climb up and down the steep slopes of 30 to 50 meters. It takes 20 minutes to travel back and forth.

Volunteer Yan Pengsen’s workplace today is a ski mountaineering venue, which is also a new project for this Asian Winter Games. Seeing that the athletes who had just competed did not find their results, Yan Pengsen took the initiative to come forward to help.

Volunteer of the 9th Asian Winter Conference in Harbin Yan Pengsen: I think the most difficult thing is actually language communication. Some people in some countries will have some accents, which sometimes are not easy to understand, and it is actually a challenge for me.

In order to better communicate with athletes from different countries, Yan Pengsen also created a manual of common languages ​​in ten languages ​​with the volunteers.

Volunteer of the 9th Asian Winter Conference in Harbin in 2025 Yan Pengsen: For example, Kazakh, Persian, and Uzbek. If you need it, we can show this directly to him.

Although the snow-shang competition area has just started, for volunteers such as Wang Han and Yan Pengsen, the service work has lasted for nearly half a month. During the test site, they braved the severe cold of more than minus 20 degrees Celsius every day, hiking and surveying the snow tracks three times, which took 2 hours per trip, and the snow often exceeded their knees. Although the work is hard, as volunteers of the Asian Winter Games, everyone feels very proud and hopes that their efforts will add warmth and vitality to the Asian Winter Games.

Volunteer of the 9th Asian Winter Conference in Harbin Wang Han: It is a very valuable opportunity in my life for me, and it also made me understand that unity and communication are the most important things in our volunteer services.

Volunteer of the 9th Asian Winter Conference in Harbin in 2025 Yan Pengsen: I hope that through our efforts, we can show the vitality and strength of our Chinese youth to the whole world.

(CCTV reporters Han Bing, Huang Da, Zhao Yingchen, Gao Boyuan, Li Mobai)