China's northernmost province embraces ice and snow sports craze

HARBIN, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, a two-time host of the Asian Winter Games and the cradle of many of China's winter Olympic champions, has long been the heartland of the country's ice and snow sports. This winter, the province is in the grip of a sports fever, having launched a super league and organized thousands of related events across its cities. Guan Na, a visitor from south China's Guangdong Province, had her first taste of winter sports in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang, a place renowned as a "city of Olympic champions" for nurturing multiple world and Olympic short...