What is the significance of hosting the Winter Olympics in our country?

The significance of my country hosting the Winter Olympics is:

1. Sports: Leverage the development of my country's weak ice and snow sports and industries. Strengthen international exchanges with countries with strong ice and snow projects.

2. Culture: Export the soft power of Chinese culture to the world and demonstrate the modernization achievements of China’s peaceful development.

3. Economy: Strengthen Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei infrastructure and people's livelihood projects, provide public services, and implement and promote the national strategy of coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.

4. Politics: Demonstrate the image of a major country, enhance international discourse power, and forcefully promote the China-led “One Belt, One Road” initiative. Practice the unity of human destiny.

5. Society: It is a good patriotic education for the people of the whole country, enhances national pride and cohesion, and inspires and motivates the people to continue to strive for democracy and common prosperity.

The symbolic meaning of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics torch:

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics torch follows the traditional Chinese philosophical thought of "Tao follows nature, and harmony between nature and man". Because it spirals upward, its growth feels more like a plant, growing continuously, sprouting, and growing upward.

The use of red and silver as the main colors of the torch is a metaphor for ice and fire, symbolizing that the torch will bring "light and warmth" to the ice and snow world, symbolizing the meeting of ice and fire, the flying passion, illuminating the ice and snow, and warming the world. The color selection and the auspicious cloud pattern on the handle also represent the continuation of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.