On the afternoon of January 20, 2016, the Thirteenth Winter Games of the Chinese People's *** and State opened in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Liu Yandong, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the **** and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony and declared it open. Mr. Zhang Chunxian, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China and Secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Party Committee, delivered a welcome speech. Liu Peng, Director General of the State General Administration of Sports and Director of the Organizing Committee of the 13th Winter Games, delivered the opening speech. The opening ceremony was presided over by Xueklaiti Zakir, Chairman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Executive Director of the Organizing Committee of the 13th Winter Games.
The opening ceremony officially began at 18:00 p.m. on January 20, with the Chinese People's **** and the flag of the country and the flag of the Thirteenth National Winter Games first entering the venue to the accompaniment of the characteristic Xinjiang songs such as "A Good Place in Xinjiang", "Snow in the North of the Serbian Sea", and "The Girl from Alishan". Then the entrance ceremony began, and the referee team of the Winter Games walked in the front. The ushers holding the "snowflake" props led the delegations to enter the venue. 52 players of the mascot "Snow Lotus" and 54 volunteers holding Xinjiang hand drums stood in a row and performed alternately to welcome the 52 delegations participating in the Winter Games, including the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, and the host delegation from Urumqi was the last to enter the venue. The host delegation from Urumqi was the last to take the stage. Afterwards, the national flag was raised and the national anthem was sung. Then the athletes' representative Rehabai Tarabkhan, the coaches' representative Xu Zhaoxiao and the referees' representative Qiu Zhaoyi took the oath on the spot. 18:50, the opening ceremony was over and the cultural performance started. The cultural performance *** divided into the prologue, three chapters and epilogue *** five parts. Prologue by the singer Liu Yuanyuan, Abdullah and speed skating all-around world champion Ye Qiaobo, China's first Winter Olympics men's champion Han Xiaopeng four **** with the theme song of the Winter Games, "through the snow and ice", tunes full of Xinjiang characteristics, showing the charm of the ice and snow sports. The first chapter "ice and snow edge" including "ice and snow boy", "ice and snow love", "ice and snow carnival" three parts. The second chapter "Tianshan love" has "our Xinjiang good place", "the girl in Darbancheng", "Bipol", "Hongyan", "lifting your cover to" five parts. The third chapter "Chinese Dream" shows four parts in turn: "Charming Youth", "Jasmine Blossom", "Taiji Wind" and "Rainbow Ribbons", which demonstrates the beautiful life in Xinjiang and the beautiful expectation of Xinjiang people for realizing the Chinese dream.
19:49, thirteen winter main torch tower in the hands of the seventh rod torchbearer Adili - Wu Shouer lit, he walked through the high ropes towards a snowflake in the opening ceremony arena, the snowflake will be ignited by the snowflake led to the snow lotus torch tower in the big screen, the outdoor torch tower at the same time lit.