All primary and secondary schools must incorporate a series of “on ice and snow” activities into their curriculum, relying on curling rinks to carry out curling experience activities. Schools with the necessary conditions should use natural snow to build simple campus ski slopes (or tracks); those near off-campus ski resorts should organize skiing experience activities.
The “Million Youth on Ice and Snow” campaign will run until March next year. In January, Harbin will host a citywide winter skiing camp for youth at the Wujimi Ski Resort. At the same time, it will also organize students’ ice and snow activities during the winter vacation, making rational use of school ice rinks, designing a series of ice and snow events, distributing ski tickets to facilitate skiing experiences, opening curling rinks to provide curling experiences, and more. Each primary and secondary school student is required to take part in more than five ice and snow experience activities during the winter vacation, which will be included as part of their “winter vacation homework.”
To ensure students have access to ice, the Municipal Education Bureau requires all schools with suitable facilities to maintain ice surfaces and strive to offer a full range of ice-based classes. For schools without proper ice facilities, they should designate areas within existing grounds as fun zones for ice and snow sports, organizing regionally distinctive winter activities such as spinning tops on ice (dōngběi pēng huá), sliding on ice (chū lái huá), and riding sleds (dǎ pá lǐ).
Meanwhile, district-level sports departments must ensure the construction of at least three central ice (or snow) rinks with a perimeter of over 330 meters, while county (or city) level sports departments must guarantee the construction of one to two such rinks. These facilities will be available for students in areas where schools lack the ability to maintain ice, to participate in ice-based teaching and extracurricular training activities.