The stamps and the mini sheet of five competition venues (场馆) of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 came out     1     June 23, the Olympic Day. The stamps of competition venues are     2     important witness to the achievements of the Beijing Winter Olympics venue construction.

The set of the stamps     3    (consist)   of four stamps and one mini sheet.The value of the whole set is 10.80 yuan,and the     4     (plan) circulation is 7.5 million for the stamps and 6.3 million for the mini sheet.

China Post has also made a variety of other     5    (product) such as first day covers postcards, stamp folders, and stamp albums. Among     6    (they), the carved postcards of the competition venues use the same machine, same technique and same printing technology as the zodiac (生肖) stamps，    7    fully displays the architectural image and structural beauty of the venues. Postmarks of the places of the venues    8     (apply) to the stamps which is circulated in limited guantities. Stamp folder entitled the Light of the Mark     9     (skillful) displays all the 12 competition venues of the Games. Stamp collection entitled Building a Dream of Olympic Winter Games contains layout 1, layout 2, first day cover and mini sheet of this set of stamps. It is also worth     10     (pay) attention to.

2 . On February 5, 2022, China claimed its first gold at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games in the 2000m mixed team relay of short track speed skating. The Chinese quartet (四人组) of Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu, Ren Ziwei and Wu Dajing stormed to a thrilling victory at the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2:37.348. Italy took the silver and Hungary bagged the bronze.

According to the rules, each team is made up of two men and two women, and each of four skaters covers four and a half laps in the 2000-meter race. Olympic silver medalist Fan skated the first leg of the final race, but the race was restarted as Canadian and Hungarian athletes fell down soon after the starting pistol (发令枪) was fired.

As the race started again, Fan finished the first leg in third, and her teammates came from behind to lead the race. In the last ten laps, China steadily extended the advantage, while skaters from Canada and Hungary collided (相撞). The Italians finished 0.016 seconds behind China, almost cut the deficit. Powerhouses South Korea and the Netherlands were penalized and knocked out from the final.

“I’ve been waiting for this gold medal for a long time. I always believe in our team and my teammates,” said Fan with tears rolling down her face after the competition. “We’ve been training hard every day, and we can even feel blood in our throat when we stepped out of the rink. We made it!” The victory solidifies China’s dominance in short-track speed skating. Wu said, “Our short track team is a big family. We never give up and always go all out for every opportunity to win.”

6 . Created after Beijing successfully became an Olympic candidate (候选人), the Beijing 2022 Education Program is part of the host's wider efforts to encourage its people to participate in winter sports. The program has already gone beyond its original target of engaging 300 million people in snow and ice activities. And by involving schools, children and young people, the program ensures that its Olympic legacy (遗产) will continue to reach the young audience long after the Games.

In a push to engage the younger generation in ice and snow sports, schools and educational authorities have developed a curriculum (课程) that includes winter sports knowledge and history, practical classes for beginners, and an introduction to becoming a winter sports coach. Winter sports clubs have also been set up in schools all around the country, allowing children to develop ice and snow sports skills in the warmer south as well as the cold north.

Sports education is proved to have a positive effect on physical and mental health. It also helps to reduce stress, and build team and organizational skills. When COVID-19 made outdoor participation harder, organizers made sure that children and teenagers could follow a digital Olympic curriculum. Some classes were conducted through websites and broadcasters, with the online materials viewed more than 140 million times. Videos, courses and games were all part of digital efforts to bring the Olympic Games and winter sports closer to the young. Short videos have gone popular, attracting more than 70 million viewers online.

Thanks to sports education, more and more young people have expressed interest in becoming professional athletes. To keep them practising ahead of the next Olympic Winter Games, Mini Winter Olympics will be organized every year. The last ones attracted more than 1, 700 children and seemed to keep growing.

8 . Bing Dwen Dwen, the cute mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, has been selling like hotcakes. Why is the ice—glazed panda so popular? What are the clever ideas behind its design? Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts professor Cao Xue, who is in charge of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics mascot design team, told the story.

The 14-member design team led by Cao Xue are all teachers and graduate students from the School of Visual Arts and Design of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. During that time, there were almost no holidays, and the whole team need to revise and discuss every day, and they ended up completing over 10,000 manuscripts. In the end, Bing Dwen Dwen, based on a panda, was selected from nearly 6,000 entries from 35 countries and regions.

Bing Dwen Dwen is a panda with a high sense of science and technology. It draws attention with its full-body “shell” made out of ice. Cao said the inspiration came from traditional. Chinese snack “ice-sugar gourd,” also known as tanghulu, which is candied hawthorns on a stick, while the shell also looks like a space suit — a nod to embracing new technologies for a future of infinite possibilities.

Although the tanghulu idea was widely praised, it wasn’t enough to represent the image of a big country. So the team tried again and again, changing the image in the ice shell into elk, tiger, rabbit…Various ideas have been put forward and overturned, but eventually it was decided that China’s national treasure panda is the most beloved by people all over the world.

As for Bing Dwen Dwen’s popularity, Cao said he expected it to be popular, but did not expect it to become so popular. “Its ice shell is cold, but the image looks warm and lovely, I believe this kind of warmth can be something everybody feels,” said Cao.

Since the Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off     1     Feb.4th, the adorable Games mascot-a panda enveloped in an ice crystal shell-     2    (become)a favorite among competitors, sports fans and the media.

Enthusiasm for the mascot purchase has led to a     3    (short) of products with many netizens complaining that it’s too difficult to acquire       4    Bing Dwen Dwen doll.

Zhang Zhicheng, a spokesman for the National Intellectual Property Administration, said, “the difficulty buyers face     5    (get) merchandise (指定商品) demonstrates the country’s stronger and     6     (comprehensive) protection of Olympics symbols.” People were told     7     they could do and couldn’t do well before the Games. They knew they would have to go to licensed (获许的) online or physical shops     8    (buy) Games-related merchandise.

“Not just does the mascot have Olympics symbol protection, it also receives patent, trademark and copyright protection” Zhang said at a news conference     9    (organize) by the 2022 Beijing Media Center. “Comprehensive intellectual property protection guarantees the rights and interests of IPR owners and promotes the spread of Olympics culture," he said.

The strong protection of Olympic     10    (symbol) and countermeasures against IPR violators have also shown that China is on its way to being an IPR power, which will help us build a good global reputation and encourage innovators.