Jingyuetan hosting the 2007 China-Changchun Ice and Snow Tourism Festival and the fifth Vasaloppet China, is expected to become the center of the Asian cross-country skiing.

Vasaloppet China

Vasaloppet, the greatest cross-country ski race in the world, was named after Gustav Vasa, a 16th century Swedish freedom fighter and nobleman who called on people against the Danish rule. In 1922, a newspaper editor came up with an idea of organizing an annual 90-kilometer skiing race in honor of Vasa, which became a reality on March 19th of the year in Sweden, the first Vasaloppet. Up till now, four cities across the world have ever held Vasaloppet cross-country ski races -- Mora of Sweden, Minnesota of the United States, Hokkaido of Japan and Changchun of China.

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