The sixth edition of the Winter Heroes Games began in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Thursday. Though the ground is covered in ice and snow under minus 30 degrees Celsius, nothing stopped people's fervent passion for professional sports events including short-track rally, national cross-country snowmobile challenge, snow tubes and kart racing. The event will continue until March 2024.

(Cover photo: The sixth edition of the Winter Heroes Games begins in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, December 21, 2023. /General Administration of Sport of China)