Tourists flock to Shanxi for winter thrills
Top athletes among those championing province's wealth of snow and ice assets
The young talent from Shanxi has been making a name for himself over the past two years. In February 2023, he claimed second place at the X Games China 2022 Skiing Tour Finals. In 2024, he won silver in the youth group's snowboarding slopestyle event at the 14th National Winter Games. In January 2025, Jiang was selected to represent China at the Asian Winter Games.
He was not the first Shanxi athlete to garner a medal at international winter sports events.
Shanxi athlete Su Yiming was champion in the men's snowboard big air final at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Feb 15 that year, securing Shanxi province's first Winter Olympic gold.
The rise of Shanxi's winter sports athletes is testimony to the province's growing popularity and rapid development of snow and ice sports.
