Beijing 2022 brings new life to old 'Steel City'

A former industrial quarter is being transformed into a hub for the Winter Olympic Games. Zhou Jie, Ji Ye and Zhang Han report for Xinhua.

On a sunny winter afternoon, barbershop owner Huang Jinzhi stood on the balcony of her home 13 stories above the ground in Beijing's Shijingshan district and pointed at a group of iron ore storage towers and blast furnaces about 300 meters away.

"They look beautiful," she said.