Many expats I know rave about skiing in China. While one would expect ski resorts to be excessively congested in a country of 1.3 billion - as such resorts are in neighboring South Korea and most other tourist attractions are in China- AP has been assured that “they are virtually empty and the locals mostly avoid everything except for the beginner slopes.”

Obviously better marketing is called for. This is a good start.

Professional women skiing performers, in bikini,demonstrate skiing skills at a ski resort in Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province December 17, 2005. The temperature then was 5 degrees centigrade below zero. The activity was organized by the ski resort to attract customers. These performers come from Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province.

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