The National Winter Games of China is a nationwide Chinese winter sports competition typically held every 4 to 5 years in conjunction with the

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. The 2016 games featured 1,388 participants from 52 delegations, including

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

and

Macau Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...

. The 2020 winter games, which were to take place in February in

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's China–Mongolia border, border with the country of Mongolia. ...

, have been postponed to 2024 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Editions

*1959 - 1st National Winter Games,

Jilin ) , image_skyline = Changbaishan Tianchi from western rim.jpg , image_alt = , image_caption = View of Heaven Lake , image_map = Jilin in China (+all claims hatched).svg , mapsize = 275px , map_al ...

Harbin Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban area, urban population (after Shenyang, Lia ...

*1965 - 2nd National Winter Games, -- (suspended) *1976 - 3rd National Winter Games, Harbin,

Shangzhi Shangzhi () is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. It is away from central Harbin and has an area of approximately . The city proper has a population of around ...

*1979 - 4th National Winter Games, Shangzhi,

Ürümqi Ürümqi, , is the capital of the Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. With a census population of 4 million in 2020, Ürümqi is the second-largest city in China's northwestern interior after Xi'an, also the ...

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*1983 - 5th National Winter Games, Harbin, Yabuli *1987 - 6th National Winter Games,

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, Changbaishan *1991 - 7th National Winter Games,

*1995 - 8th National Winter Games,

*1999 - 9th National Winter Games,

*2003 - 10th National Winter Games,

, Yabuli *2008 - 11th National Winter Games, Jan 17 - Jan 27, 2008 in

Qiqihar Qiqihar (also spelled Tsitsihar) is the second-largest city in the Heilongjiang province of China, in the west central part of the province. The built-up (or metro) area made up of Longsha, Tiefeng and Jianhua districts had 959,787 inhabitants, w ...

*2012 - 12th National Winter Games, Jan 1 - Jan 13 2012 in

*2016 - 13th Chinese National Winter Games, Jan 20 - Jan 30, 2016 in

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*2024 - 14th Chinese National Winter Games, originally scheduled to be held from Feb 16 - Feb 26, 2020 in

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and

Yakeshi Yakeshi (; zh, c=牙克石) is a county-level city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China. Yakeshi has a population of 391,627 and an area of . It is situated next to the Hailar River east of Hailar District, the seat of Hulunbuir, and on the nor ...

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—postponed to 2024

References

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