Nation's athletes put to test with 2022 in mind

China is determined to expand its winter sports prowess by sending its largest ever delegation to vie with the world's best at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

In preparation for the Winter Games at home in 2022, China will dispatch a 186-member delegation, including 82 athletes, to participate in 55 events in five sports at the Pyeongchang Olympics in South Korea from Feb 9 to 25.

This comes as the nation is seeing breakthroughs in new events, and is the largest delegation since the country's Winter Olympics debut in 1980.