Winter sports camp is a hot ticket

YINCHUAN－Since the winter vacation started, a frozen fishing pond in Pingluo county of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region has been full of cheers and laughter between 10 am and 1 pm.

Though the icy surface is not quite standard, and some surfaces are uneven, more than 70 boys and girls, aged from 5 to 16, still enjoyed the short-track speed skating, many probably imagining themselves competing on the biggest stage of all for Olympic gold.

"For the past four years, at this time, we have opened a winter camp for short-track speed skating. The Beijing Winter Olympics is on and the children are so excited," says Li Xu, a coach with the Chunya Winter Sports Club of Pingluo.