China wants to get 300 million citizens involved in winter sports by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and plans to encourage them by building more than 500 ice skating rinks and 240 ski slopes over the next six years, the government said.

The country's top economic planner said yesterday that the number and scale of China's current facilities did not match its winter sports development targets. "At the moment... there is a large gap with other developed countries with winter sports," the National Development and Reform Commission said in a document signed by other government bodies. The NDRC said the effort would be led by Beijing, along with Tianjin City and Hebei Province. Beijing and Zhangjiakou City won the right last year to host the Games.

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