Ski resorts in China

Beidahu lies in Jilin, 53 kilometres from the city and 126 from Longjia international airport. It served as a training base for the Beijing Olympics in 2022 and has held the Asian Winter Games and freestyle World Cup rounds. The mountain sits in one of the world's better snow belts. Ridges enclose it on three sides so the wind almost never reaches it, the winter average is around thirteen degrees below freezing, and snow lies for up to 160 days. That gives dry, near powder conditions, and the place is nicknamed the powder paradise. There are 74 runs totalling 80 kilometres with 870 metres of vertical, served by 13 cable cars and 7 magic carpets that together move 31000 people an hour. 230 hectares are set aside for beginners and intermediates. Eight hotels with 2300 rooms and 8000 beds stand in the resort, alongside a service centre on a scale few in Asia can match.

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A resort in the Altai mountains of northern Xinjiang, near the village of Hemu in the Kanas region, and one of the newest large ski developments in China. The terrain runs from 1385 up to 2765 metres, which gives a substantial vertical, and the area sits in a part of the world with a long snow season and cold dry conditions. The Kanas region is known for its lake, its forest and the Tuvan and Kazakh communities who live there, and Hemu itself is a village of timber houses that has become a destination in its own right. Getting here from Europe is a long undertaking. Check flight routing and entry requirements well ahead.

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禾木（吉克普林）国际滑雪度假区 is a ski area in Xinjiang, China, with 68 km of marked pistes served by 10 lifts. The slopes run from 1,385 m up to a summit of 2,765 m, a vertical drop of 1,380 m. Graded runs are 25% blue, 29% red and 46% black.

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