The Olympic torch for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games goes on display in the Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture, in Northeast China's Jilin province, on Jan 17. The Beijing 2022 Winter Games is due to take place in and around the national capital next month. The torch for Beijing 2022 – bearing the name 'Flying' – is colored in silver and red. The pattern gradually changes from auspicious clouds to snowflakes in a paper-cut style. [Photo/Jilin news network]

The Olympic torch display takes place in Yanbian, on Jan 17 [Photo/Jilin news network]

Yanbian boasts ideal powder snow in abundance. To date, one ice skating hall and four artificial ice rinks have been built in the prefecture and more than 50,000 people participate in winter sports there annually. Since 2015, Yanbian has promoted the sport of skiing for seven consecutive years and the cumulative number of participants has exceeded 500,000. [Photo/Jilin news network]