Club Med is opening its first Chinese property this November.

Taking hold of the expanding Chinese market, The French holiday village group, Club Med has announced plans to open its first resort this November at Yalubi, the country’s top resort.

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Beijing Snowdome

SkiTrac reports that their local associates in Beijing have succeeded in putting sufficient funding together to register the Beijing Megadome special purpose company.

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China announced plans to build the biggest indoor ski slope in the world

China has announced plans to build the world’s longest indoor ski slope, when the first kilometer (3,300ft) long indoor slope opens in the city of Guangzhou near Hong Kong.

Guangzhou will characterize itself with a slope of 1 000m in length within a potential market of 100 million peoble living an hours drive within the city.

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The Beijing Qiabo Ice & Snow World, like the new Shaoxing centre, is named after ice skater Ye Qiaobo.

China can now boast as many snow domes as the UK and Germany with the opening of a new centre in Shaoxing.

The China Daily newspaper reported the opening of the facility in the city of 4.4 million people, located in the Zhejiang province of northern China.

There is limited information on the new facility, except that it is located in the city’s Ke’nan (new area) and is, like the country’s famous Beijing indoor slope, named after Olympic ice skater Ye Qiaobo.

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Kanas has the required natural assets for a ski resort, but has suffered from political unrest.

Plans announced last fall by the Chinese government appear to be going forward to build the biggest ski resort in Asia.

In Xinjiang, one of China’s most westerly provinces, the Kanas International Ski Resort will be built over a 10-year period at a cost of approximately USD $730 million (€510m) on a site with an average altitude of about 2,000m in an area normally covered by snow from November to May.

Construction is supposed to start this year, and the resort would include an artificial lake, golf course, hotels and villas, according to reports.

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China’s famous 2008 Olympics Bird’s Nest stadium filled with snow in December for a snow festival which will continue through to the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Snowmaking guns have covered 10,000 square meters of the venue with snow up to a metre deep and created from 25,000 tons of ‘reclaimed water.’ The snow has been shaped in to an artificial snow hill inside the stadium some 20m (70 feet) high, complete with multiple sliding paths downs.

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Val Thorens has opened for the season. The French ski area the highest major resort in the Alps.

Many of the world’s major resorts in at least a dozen countries opened for the season this past weekend.

In Europe, several major alpine resorts opened their doors. Europe’s highest major resort Val Thorens is the second resort to open in France, joining Tignes which has been open for nearly two months already. In Austria, Obergurgl is opening and in Switzerland, Andermatt, Davos, Klosters, Flims and Laax join Engelberg, Zermatt, Verbier, Les Diablerets and Saas Fee which are already open. In Italy, Livigno is opening early and is running its lifts free of charge this week with no lift pass required.

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