The emblems of Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games were unveiled on Friday’s night. Let’s review the process that resulted in the unveiling of the official emblems for the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.

The Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee started collecting designs from around the world on July 31, 2016. They received 4,506 submissions over the next four months.  

In October 2016, the Committee invited 15 experts and athletes from China and overseas to form an Emblem Expert Review Committee.

On January 14, 2017, the focus turned to the ten finalists, with an eye toward further improving those designs. Five days later, the Committee asked four art institutions to begin refining the remaining ten choices.

On March 27 and April 26, 2017, two rounds of social evaluation for the design were conducted.

From April to August 2017, domestic and global inspections were conducted to ensure originality and intellectual property rights.

On December 8, 2017, the Committee formally sent the winning designs to the IOC and IPC for approval.

Finally on Friday, the official emblems were unveiled at a ceremony in Beijing.

The designer of the official emblems is Lin Cunzhen, deputy dean of China Central Academy of Fine Arts' Design School. 

With her design adopted as the emblem of the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games, she also created the emblem chosen to represent the Chinese capital's successful bid to host the 2022 Games. The trademark wizard says she is proud that more than a year of hard work has paid off, fulfilling her dream to be involved with the Olympics.

As she said, "Actually at the very beginning, I was not so willing to design a logo for the 2022 Beijing Olympics and Paralympics because I had already designed one for the bidding process. So I thought my concept might be limited. But I believe everyone including me has a dream to be part of the Olympics, which is a source of pride. As a result, I decided to design logos for the Beijing Winter Games, but I had to design logos that are different, and in special forms, to show the beauty of the calligraphy of Chinese characters. Furthermore, in regard to of winter event athletes, the logos had to present both snow events and ice events, by using the Chinese character for 'winter'. This is the best way to let the world know more about China and Chinese characters."