Shijinglong Skiing Resort

The Shijinglong Skiing Resort is located in Yanqing, a county famous for tourism in the Beijing area. The resort is located 8 kilometers away from the county town of Yanqing, 80 kilometers from the downtown area of Beijing and 3 kilometers from Longqing Gorge, which has long enjoyed the reputation of being the “Small Lijiang River north of the Great Wall”. It was the first ski resort in Beijing open to the public in 1999.

Under the guidance of the idea of “building up an Alps in China”, the Shijinglong Skiing Resort, as a pioneer in the Beijing ski industry, has continually enlarged its scale and improved the construction of its facilities in recent years so as to provide skiers with a good, comfortable and friendly ski slopes. Today the skiing area covers more than 600 mu (mu is a Chinese unit of area equal to 1/15 a hectare) of land, and contains 8 ski slopes of different grades (expert, medium and amateur). The slopes are over 5,000 meters long and cover 180,000 square meters. The expert slope is more than 1,000 meters long at an average width of 50-odd meters has earned itself the title of “the top ski slope in Beijing”. The resort is equipped with one double-chair cable car, one four-chair cable car, six T dragging cableways, two snow rolling cars made in Germany and fifteen advanced snow-making machines. In the skiing resort, there is a large parking lot covering an area of 36,000 square meters. The resort also provides more than 5,000 skiing facilities of various types and it has the capacity to allow 5,000 people to enjoy snow entertainment activities simultaneously. In order to keep itself at the international level, the Shijinglong Skiing Resort started a program called “snow hot-spring” in 2002 and thus established its leading position as one of the skiing areas in China that compares favorably to those abroad. The skiing field also employs 100 instructors who provide snowboard and ski fans with teaching services at different levels of difficulty so as to meet their various needs. The Shijinglong Skiing Resort is really an excellent winter resort with convenient room and boarding services that lets you enjoy the fun of skiing.

Publishes at : 07-09-23 21:54

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