The Asian Winter Games, the largest winter celebration for 4.7 billion Asians returning after eight years, will kick off in Harbin, the capital of China's Heilongjiang Province. Delegations from 34 countries will be unveiled at the opening ceremony at the Harbin International Convention and Exhibition Center at 8 p.m. Beijing time on the 7th, followed by an eight-day hot war until the 14th.

Welcome to Harbin!2025 The 9th Asian Winter Games mascots Binbin and Nini

The 8th Asian Winter Games was originally scheduled to be held in 2021, but it was not held for a long time due to difficulties in choosing a venue and the impact of the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic. Harbin, which hosted the 3rd Asian Winter Games in 1996, was selected as the venue in July 2023. So far, Harbin, which hosted the Asian Winter Games for the first time in China, has once again become the venue for the largest winter sports event in Asia after 29 years.

On the morning of the 3rd, four days before the opening of the Harbin Asian Winter Games, journalists, volunteers and other relevant people were coming and going in the main press center (MPC) of the Asian Winter Games.

Following the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the 2022 Hangzhou Summer Asian Games in 2023, China will host three large-scale multi-sport events in the next three years. Therefore, in order to create a grand stage, this competition has also poured a lot of people's efforts. He served as the chief director of the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Hangzhou Asian GamesSha XiaolanThe fact that he also commanded the opening ceremony of the Harbin Asian Winter Games proves this.

This is the first time in eight years since the 2017 Sapporo Asian Winter Games. The organizing committee of the conference has formulated a plan to use gorgeous lighting and technology to exude the charm of Harbin, the "ice city". It is reported that the organizing committee has prepared large-scale activities such as decorating the entire opening ceremony site with 1.2 million small snowflake devices.

2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games South Korean player schedule

South Korea will send a team of 222 players to the Asian Winter Games. The flag-bearers for the opening ceremony were ice hockey player Lee Cong-min and curling player Kim Eun-ji. The Korean team is expected to win six gold medals in short track speed skating, two in speed skating and one each in alpine skiing, freestyle skiing and curling, aiming for second place in the medal table after host China.

The results of the medal table of South Korea in the previous Asian Winter Games

The first gold medal of this Asian Winter Games will come out on the 8th. South Korea will compete for gold medals in the mixed pairs curling, short track speed skating mixed 2000m relay, men's and women's 500m and 1500m, and speed skating men's and women's 100m and 1500m races.