BEIJING WINS
2015-08-18
Beijing Review 2015年32期
Members of the Chinese delegation celebrate after Beijing wins the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics at the 128th Session of the International Olympic Committee in Kuala Lumpur， Malaysia， on July 31.
Beijing beat its only competitor Almaty， Kazakhstan， by 44 votes to 40 with one abstention. President Xi Jinping expressed Chinese peoples passion for the Winter Games in a video message during Beijings presentation.
The Chinese capital launched a joint bid for the Games in November 2013 with Zhangjiakou in neighboring Hebei Province. It becomes the first city in the world to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
