CCTV News: On the 10th, the 9th Asian Winter Conference entered the third competition day after the opening ceremony. Ice and snow sports are inspiring rounds of ice and snow crazes in the stadium. Outside the stadium, the ice and snow equipment industry chains extending from ice and snow sports are working at full speed. According to the "China Ice and Snow Industry Development Research Report [2024]", since 2015, the scale of China's ice and snow industry has rapidly expanded from the initial 270 billion yuan to 890 billion yuan in 2023. It is expected to exceed the trillion yuan mark in 2025. China's ice and snow industry market size continues to expand, the industrial chain is more perfect, and the export of ice and snow equipment is becoming increasingly active. The rapid development of the ice and snow equipment industry has also made the old industrial base in Heilongjiang, which is holding the Asian Winter Games, constantly injecting new impetus to "activate the endogenous characteristic economy".

CCTV reporter Huang Da: The R&D staff told me that this snowboard uses the same process as the wing manufacturing of the aircraft. With a thickness of less than 14 mm, it includes a number of new aerospace materials technologies such as carbon fiber technology and basalt fiber technology. Compared with the most widely used wood-core skis, it is lighter in mass but has stronger strength. More importantly, the company's head told me that it can also be customized with high precision based on the athlete's personalized functions.

For example, in a free skiing aerial skills event, different athletes will have different ways of exerting force and strength, and even the distribution of the two legs of the same athlete will be different. But the biggest feature of aviation composite materials is that they can achieve data-based fine design in terms of deformation and strength.

The application of cross-field technology makes it possible to rely on athlete skill data "tailoring" and enable snowboards to truly adapt to athletes.

The "change lane overtaking" in materials and technology is filling the gap in the design and production of competitive skis in my country. And its birthplace is Heilongjiang where the Asian Winter Games are held at this moment.

Laser cutting and CNC grinding machines, such equipment may have been used to produce high-end parts before. But in Heilongjiang, such equipment is also used to produce ice skates. For example, in Qitaihe, this ice skate factory has intelligent equipment started throughout the year. A factory with a temperature of about 300 square meters can produce tens of thousands of pairs of ice skates in a year.

In Qiqihar, the hometown of ice hockey, robots also contribute to the production of ice skates. While the speed is increasing, the product pass rate has increased from the original 95% to 99%. It is understood that the company has currently owned more than 20 patents.

High-end production lines bring about improvements in product quantity and quality, which directly promotes the growth of sales and sales.

For example, this Heilongjiang ice skate manufacturer sold more than 20,000 pairs last year. The company staff told us that these products will be sold to domestic regions such as Hebei and Shandong, and even overseas orders such as Canada and Hungary.

From the research and development of high-end competition equipment to the production of Volkswagen ice and snow equipment, behind the manufacturing strength of ice and snow equipment is the confidence of the old industrial base. From the "two bombs and one satellite" to the first hovercraft in New China, from the Shenzhou spacecraft, to the Chang'e lunar exploration project, to the "Jiaolong" and "Fendouzhe", these important weapons of major powers have the mark of Longjiang behind them.

Today, Longjiang's manufacturing strength is transforming into the power of ice and snow equipment manufacturing. Whether it is the new materials for snowboards, the smart production lines for ice skates, etc., these are all born in this laboratory.

In the laboratory of the Inertial Navigation and Measurement and Control Technology Team of the School of Intelligent Science and Technology of Harbin Engineering University, the team developed a human motion capture and training system by applying relevant technologies developed for Xuelong. This prototype in the laboratory can only capture positioning and actions in real time, collect and store information.

With this system, on the indoor ski machine, you can simulate the immersive visual experience of outdoor professional ski resorts all year round. In the future, even if you are thousands of miles apart, as long as you stand on the ski machine, you can make an appointment for a ski competition in a virtual space. In the past five years, more than 10 scientific research teams of Harbin Engineering University have been participating in scientific research work related to the ice and snow industry, and more than 20 patents have been converted and applied. This year's Asian Winter Games fire-resistant transparent shells are all born here.

In 2022, the "Heilongjiang Province Science and Technology Achievements Industrialization Action Plan (2022-2025)" was issued, among which promoting the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements such as ice and snow sports equipment, ice and snow construction technology and equipment, and ice and snow digitalization has become the key development direction in Heilongjiang. In the "Implementation Plan of Heilongjiang Province on Stimulating the Vitality of the Ice and Snow Economy with the High-Quality Development of Ice and Snow Sports" released last year, the research and development of equipment including ski resort improvement equipment, ice and snow equipment equipment manufacturing, intelligent wearable equipment, smart skiing platforms and other equipment has become a new direction for the high-quality development of ice and snow equipment manufacturing.

At present, Heilongjiang is accelerating the construction of ice and snow equipment-related industrial parks including Harbin Ice and Snow Sports Equipment Manufacturing Industrial Park and Qiqihar Ice and Snow Equipment Industrial Park. At the same time, Harbin is also accelerating the construction of five industrial chains including ice and snow facilities and equipment, and ice and snow sports equipment. The former old industrial base is rejuvenating new vitality due to the surging "snow".