2009 WU Update: Inspection Visit of Jabuli Ski Resort
February 25th, 2008
The slopes of the Jabuli Ski Resort
Mr. Han Lei (r), Manager of the Yabuli Ski Resort showed the FISU delegates around
Today, Februari 25th, the FISU delegates inspected the Yabuli Ski Resort. The Yabuli Ski Resort is the main competition area for the snow sports of the Winter Universiade, in which there are 33 infrastructure projects including 16 competition facilities, 14 auxiliary facilities and 3 reception facilities.
Renovation Alpine Skiing Downhill Venue & Ski Slopes
The venue has been renovated according to the FIS standard. The newly-built part of the course is 1,470 meters long and 9 to 15 meters wide. The new finish point is located at the Competition Command Center. A new water diversion channel with a length of 1,725 meters has also been built. The course covers an area of 69,000 square meters. The project started on April 1st, 2007 and completed in mid November. It has been homologated by FIS and can hold international A-level Downhill competitions. The ski courses for Super Giant and Giant Slalom have been expanded from 6 meters to 9 meters and 15 meters.
Freestyle Aerial Venue
Freestyle Skiing will be an optional sport at the Harbin Winter Universiade. According to the latest venue standard of FIS, the original venue has been maintained and renovated. The existing 65-meter in-run has been extended upward by 15 meters and widened by 36 meters. The expansion area reached 540 square meters. Homologated by FIS, the project, having the ability to host international A-Level competitions, was started on June 15, 2007 and completed in the mid August.
K125m Ski Jumping Venue
Covering an area of 27,600 square meters, it is the ski jumping venue meeting the highest FIS standard in the world, which is completely designed and built by Heilongjiang Province. In the venue, there are a 120 meters long and 7 meters wide steel structured in-run with the gradient of 31º-33º, a 120 meters long and 25 meters wide landing area with the gradient of 8º-38º and an 81 meters long and 31 to 33 meters wide concrete structured transition area. In addition, there are also in the venue a five-floor ferroconcrete Judge Tower, a coach stand, athletes’ lounges and equipment maintenance and adjustment rooms as well as a cableway to bring the jumpers to the top. The overall project is estimated to be completed and put to use in October 2008.
K98m Ski Jumping Venue
The K98m Ski Jumping Venue has been renovated from the original K90m venue according to FIS standard. It was completed in November 2007 and reached the standards for FIS homologation.
An impressive cable way project
Cableway Project
The Yabuli cableway project includes the construction applying domestic and imported ropeway equipment. The cableway construction applying domestic equipment includes the cableway for slalom courses from the finish point to the start point (749.9 meters in length), the cableway for the K125m ski jumping (815 meters in length), the cableway for the K98m ski jumping (810.0 meters in length), the cableway for the aerial venue (279.6 meters in length). The cableways are operated at the speed of 2 meters/second with the capacity of 300-400 persons/hour. Commenced on April 1st, 2007, all the cableways have been completed and put to use, except the one for the K125m ski jumping venue that will be accomplished in October 2008. The cableway construction applying imported equipment is an extension of the original Huiyang cableway. The extension project, carried out by Austrian Doppelmayr Company, is a combined installation of 6-person gondola lift and 4-person chairlift, which is 1,343.67 meters in length and operated at the speed of 5 meters/second with the capacity of 1,982 persons/hour. The construction started in May 2007 and was completed in November 30 in the same year.
Dong Dong, the mascot is already present!
View on the Downhill Slope
The Freestyle Venue
The K125 is still under construction
Renovation Cross-Country Ski Tracks
The original ski course has been renovated and extended by 1,300 meters. The newly-built 3,750-meter cross-country ski course includes several competition supporting areas: double pursuit ski exchange area, waxing room, wax testing area, media area, spectator area and roads etc. The whole project was completed and put to use in November 2007, except the referee and judge building that will be constructed in 2008.
Snow-Making System
The Yabuli Ski Resort snow-making system adopts full and semi-automatic hybrid control system with M Waily International Canada Ltd. as the equipment supplier and constructor. The project includes 1 main pumping station, 4 sub-pumping stations, 3 water service pipes, 145 self-sinking water outlets and 27 snow-making machines. The total length of the pipelines reaches 12,460 meters and the snow-making area covering the whole ski resort accounts to 431,800 cubic meters. The whole project has been completed, except the above-ground pipes in Peak Two that will be commenced in 2008.
