Located about 200 km from Beijing, Zhangjiakou will host snowboarding, freestyle skiing, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined and biathlon events. Instead of the existing infrastructure in Beijing and Yanking, the Zhangjiakou venue had to be built from scratch. 

In addition to the sports venues (jumping ramp, stadium, tracks) and the Olympic village, the region has built two new highways that will allow to reach it from Beijing in 2 hours, as well as a high-speed train line that will take less than 50 minutes to reach the site.

Other infrastructures to welcome tourists (hotel accommodations, shopping malls) are also under construction, the idea being to make Zhangjiakou a major center of skiing in China in the coming years and notably a center of competition and learning for future generations of athletes.

The only problem is that Zhangjiakou is located in a semi-arid region and receives on average only 20 cm of snow per year. But the icy climate in winter allows snow cannons to operate at full capacity.

By December 2020, the estimated 3 billion worth of work on the sports infrastructure alone was 80 complete.