Ice hockey players roll around the rink on unicycles in China’s Heilongjiang Province. /China Daily Photo

Around 200 senior residents from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, invented a new way to play ice hockey while riding unicycles. /China Daily Photo

Some of the players will have a chance to take part in the CCTV Gala for the Lantern Festival, which falls on February 11. /China Daily Photo

There's been about a 30% increasein the number of people in Beijing and Zhangjiakou, a city in Hebei Province who partake in winter sports since Beijing successfully won the bid for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in 2015. The Chinese Olympic Committee promised that 300 million people would join the winter sports scene by 2022. /China Daily Photo