China has begun to speed up preparations for the games in earnest, including unveiling the mascot for the 9th Winter Asian Games in 2025 to be held in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, early next year. According to local media such as China News Network on the 11th, the competition organizing committee unveiled the competition slogan, emblem, and mascot at an official event that day. The slogan in English is ‘Dream of Winter .’It was decided to be ‘Dream of Winter, Love among Asia’, and in Chinese it is written as ‘Bing and Snow Dong Dream, Aju Dongsim’
The Chinese media’s slogan uses ice and snow to connect Asian countries and promote people-to-people exchanges with Asian countries and countries participating in the Belt and Road (Land and Maritime Silk Road connecting China-Central Asia-Europe). It was said that it was included. The emblem, which contains the meaning of ‘transcendence’, was created by mixing images of lilac flowers and ribbons with the image of a short track athlete running. The mascot that attracted attention symbolized two male and female Baekdu Mountain tigers (Chinese name: Northeast Tiger).The mascots, named ‘Binbin’ (male) and ‘Nini’ (female), were created with the motif of two tiger cubs born in the ‘Northeast Tiger Forest’, which was created in Harbin for the purpose of protecting tigers in September last year .Binbin and Nini, each wearing skate shoes and a snowboard, are wearing goggles and smiling brightly.
The competition organizing committee explained that the mascot created by the team from Tsinghua University’s College of Fine Arts contained the meaning of “Harbin welcomes you” and highlighted the Northeast tiger, a natural heritage of northeastern China .China is speeding up preparations for the Games as the new year begins, officially launching the Games Organizing Committee and holding its first general meeting on the 10th.Harbin City submitted an application to host the 2025 Winter Asian Games to the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) in June last year and was selected as the host city in July of that year .With this, China will host the Asian Winter Games for the third time, following 1996 (Harbin) and 2007 (Changchun).Including the Summer Asian Games held in Beijing in 1990, Guangzhou in 2010, and Hangzhou last year, it means that the Asian Games will be held a total of six times. The Winter Asian Games have not been held since the 8th Sapporo Games in Japan in 2017, so the Harbin Games are expected to be the first Asian 스포츠토토존 Winter Games in eight years.