In 2003, Vasaloppet China was launched in Changchun. In 2014, Vasaloppet China joined in Worldloppet ski federation, becoming the organization’s sole event held in China. Worldloppet ski federation, founded in Sweden in 1978, it is an authoritative international sports organization with long-distance cross-country skiing events as its core members. It currently has 19 member events across 19 countries on five continents.
Over the past two decades,Vasaloppet China has attracted more than 15,000 athletes and skiing enthusiasts from 33 countries and regions, including nearly 5,000 foreign professional skiers. The event has inspired nearly 1.2 million people to participate in winter sports .
The opening ceremony is on January 4th each year. Vasaloppet China has become a large-scaled activity integrating sports, tourism and culture with rich Eastern and Western cultural deposits, widespread attraction and development prospects.
During annual Vasaloppet, there are not only multiple ski events for world top expert skiers, but more than ten rich and colourful tourism culture and economic and trade exchanges to make Chinese and foreign tourists enjoy themselves, and promote inter-country exchanges and cooperation to become a broad platform for exhibiting the Chinese culture and a feast for gathering Chinese and Western civilization.
