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[Winter] Changchun Jingyuetan Vasaloppet International Ski Festival
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POST TIME:2023/09/27

  Vasaloppet has been practiced in Sweden for more than 90 years, and was created in honor of Sweden's King Gustav Vasaloppet's grueling journey from Sallen to Mulla, when he escaped Danish rule. The first Vasaloppet was held in March 1922 in Sweden.

  On March 15, 2003, Vasaloppet China officially entered Changchun Jingyuetan, making China the fourth country to host Vasaloppet events after Sweden, the United States and Japan. Vasaloppet International Ski Festival has been successfully held for 17 times, including Changchun Jingyuetan Vasaloppet International Ski Festival 50 kilometers, Changchun Jingyuetan Vasaloppet International Ski Festival 25 kilometers Blueberry Vasaloppet, FIS Worldloppet Cup 50 kilometers, FIS Cross Country Skiing Tour of China 50 kilometers, Chinese college students' long-distance cross-country skiing race 25 kilometers, Changchun Jingyuetan Vasaloppet International Ski Festival Mass Recreation Race and many other events.

  From June 17 to June 25, 2014, at the invitation of the International Ski Federation (FIS) and the Worldloppet Organization, a delegation of the Changchun government, consisting of the Changchun Jingyue National Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone Administrative Committee, the Municipal Sports Bureau, the Jingyuetan Lake Tourism Group and Vasaloppet, traveled to the city of Riva, Italy, to participate throughout the annual meeting of the Worldloppet member countries, and submitted the official application of Changchun Jingyuetan Vasaloppet International Ski Festival to join the organization. On the morning of June 22nd, Beijing time, after a closed-door vote by the 16 member countries, China's membership in the Worldloppet Organization was officially approved! China became the only country among the new members with a unanimous vote, and also became the second event in Asia to join the organization!

  Worldloppet is the world's largest and highest level long-distance cross-country skiing touring event, affiliated with the FIS and founded in Sweden in 1978. The Worldloppet Organization has strict evaluation and entry standards, and each country can join it only after one of its best events has been evaluated and qualified. Changchun Jingyuetan Vasaloppet International Ski Festival successfully joining the organization, fully reflects the full affirmation from international professional cross-country skiing organization and the International Snow Federation on the scale and level of China Vasaloppet events. And at the same time, it has an important significance in promoting the improvement and expansion of China Vasaloppet’s scale and quality, which marks Jingyuetan Vasaloppet, the Changchun ice and snow tourism industry " first brand" in the enhancement and enlargement, the first brand in the Changchun ice and snow tourism industry. It marks that Jingyuetan Vasaloppet, the "No.1 Brand" of Changchun's ice and snow tourism industry, has ushered in a brand-new development opportunity to enhance and expand the scale and influence of the event, and that Vasaloppet China has entered into a key moment in the history of brand-new development!

  Over the past ten years, more than 200,000 players from more than 30 countries have participated in the competition. Vasaloppet, with infinite passion, has brought infinite vitality and vigor to Jingyuetan and the people of Changchun, and has become an international brand activity of Changchun, which has greatly enhanced the international popularity of Changchun. Now Jingyuetan Vasaloppet International Ski Festival has developed from a single sports event into an international event with the prosperous development of multiple cultures such as sports, economic and trade, tourism and sightseeing, and has been honored as one of the top ten most influential ice and snow tourism festivals in China, 30 festivals affecting the process of China's festival industry in the past 30 years of reform and opening up, and has been selected as one of the first batch of national sports and tourism high-quality events.