Committee aims to boost health

The 2022 Winter Olympics bid will not only help promote snow and ice sports across the country, but will also improve public health, the organizers said as the International Olympic Committee's inspectors arrived.

The aim of the joint bid by Beijing and Zhangjiakou is to make winter sports more popular in China while benefiting residents through pollution controls and measures to upgrade industry, the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bid Committee said.

Spokeswoman Wang Hui said she was often asked why Beijing was bidding again after hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics.