BEIJING (AP) — Beijing, host of the 2022 Winter Olympics, has a snow problem: Hardly any of the stuff falls on the Chinese capital despite freezing temperatures.
Taking the matter in hand, the games organizing committee has formed a “snow affairs work team” and invited experts from Finland, Canada and other nations to help out.
The official “2017 Beijing Fact File” produced by the city government and viewed on Thursday said the work team would “expedite research on key technologies for making and preserving snow, and start to formulate a work plan to ensure suitable snow resources.