Games lift Hebei’s ties with Austrian region

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, which further sparked enthusiasm for winter sports in China, will deepen cooperation between the country’s Hebei province and Austria’s Tyrol region, said a senior Austrian official.

Hebei, together with Beijing, hosted the recently concluded Winter Games, and Tyrol’s capital, Innsbruck, has twice hosted the Winter Olympics.

Guenther Platter, the governor of Tyrol, said “the common denominator between our regions and the original reason for the cooperation is winter sports”.

“Both of us have now hosted Olympic Games, and we know we both have winter sports at heart. That is an excellent basis,” he added.

A partnership agreement was signed between Hebei and Tyrol last summer in a move to intensify their economic, scientific and cultural relations.