Wuhan is located in central China. Snow is rare here. Nevertheless, on August 8, 2024 \u2013 the symbolic date of the 2008 Olympic opening ceremony \u2013 the Ice Snow Center opened: 35,000 square meters of artificial snow surface, consistently minus 6 degrees Celsius, a beginner slope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In two years: 400,000 visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project behind the numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The investment amounts to 1 billion yuan, which is around 130 million euros. It is financed by a consortium of three: the Hubei provincial government (Department of Culture and Tourism), the Greenland Construction Group, and the China Construction Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two phases are planned: an indoor facility now, with an outdoor expansion later. The safety concept is strict\u2014no detail is overlooked in the planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Olympia as a driving force<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, China has invested massively in winter sports. The goal: to inspire 300 million Chinese people. The Ice Snow Center in Wuhan is part of this national strategy \u2013 winter sports as a mass sport, not as an elite sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Austria is a world power in winter sports. China is just now building this infrastructure \u2013 but with government funding and national determination behind it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For Austrian equipment manufacturers and ski schools, this could be an enormous opportunity. If they are fast enough.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 35,000 square meters, a constant minus 6 degrees Celsius, an investment of 1 billion yuan. The Ice and Snow Center in Wuhan shows how China is embracing winter sports<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\nMehr lesen: {url}\n\n{tags}\n#YANUS","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[47,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china-asien","category-kolumne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-8.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yanus.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"Working Paper","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}