The hydrogen-powered buses. [Photo by SPIC, Zheng Huihui]　By Gou Wen

　　At the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, which opened as scheduled smoothly, "Made in Ningbo" technology has made a spectacular debut.

　　Ningbo is a nationally-recognized advanced manufacturing base. Manufacturing is the city's foundational industry and core competitiveness. The "Made in Ningbo" technology deployed at the Winter Olympics is only the tip of the vast iceberg that is Ningbo's manufacturing prowess.

　　These advanced technology reveals Ningbo's manufacturing strength and its gradual shift towards intelligent manufacturing. The city's AI, digital economy, new materials, high-tech manufacturing, and other emerging fields are steadily gaining momentum.

　　150 Ningbo-Made

　　Hydrogen-Powered Buses

　　During the opening ceremony of Beijing 2022 Olympics Winter Games, Gong Xin and his colleagues were busily working in a "closed loop" parking lot at the Yanqing competition zone, inspecting hydrogen-powered buses.

　　150 hydrogen-powered buses designed and produced by Ningbo were delivered to Beijing, to be used for the Games. The 11-meter green-and-white bus can carry up to 46 passengers. Compared with electric buses, not only are hydrogen-powered buses greener, they also require less time to refuel and can function stably even at -20℃.

　　The top design speed of these hydrogen-powered buses is 100 km/h; they can travel up to 450 km after each refueling.

　　So far, the buses have performed well at the Olympics despite the low temperature, steep roads, and other harsh external conditions in the competition zones. The Qingteng brand fuel cell system equipping the hydrogen energy buses consumes hydrogen and oxygen to generate power, producing zero carbon emissions and zero pollutants.

　　In September 2020, Ningbo Green Power Hydrogen Technology Research Institute was established in Jiangbei District, Ningbo, with the mission of developing and producing hydrogen fuel cell power systems.

　　At Cixi's hydrogen fuel cell power system production base, the production lines are churning out fuel cell products stably, becoming a reliable supplier to many domestic automobile enterprises.

　　Ningbo's High Tech

　　Lighting Up the

　　Opening Ceremony

　　On the evening of February 4, the Olympic cauldron was lit. The unprecedented snowflake-shaped cauldron design drew much attention.

　　"Our base mechanism for the cauldron represents the perfect combination of technology and beauty," said a representative of Zhejiang Dafeng Industrial Company.

　　Installing the base was challenging, as the floor of National Stadium, being tiled with LED panels, cannot support heavy weights.

　　The Dafeng team placed a 260-ton crane at the entrance to carefully lift the parts of the base to where the cauldron was to be assembled. After much painstaking effort, a perfectly-installed cauldron made its glowing debut to the world.

　　The company is also behind the glow sticks installed at two venues for the Games – the National Stadium and the Wukesong Sports Center. These are not ordinary glow sticks, because they can be controlled to display different designs such as fireworks, snowflakes, or pandas.

　　75% of the seating systems at the venues for the Games were provided by Dafeng, including all of the seating in the Beijing competition zone.

　　Even More

　　Ningbo Presence

　　At the opening ceremony, the brightly-colored uniforms worn by Team China caught the audience's eye.

　　According to a representative of Ningbo's Consinee Group, the company produced and processed the yarn for the knitted hats, scarves, and sweaters of the Chinese athletes.

　　70% wool + 30% cashmere was used for red hats, 100% camel cashmere was used for the camel hats and scarves, and 100% pure cashmere was used for the sweaters.

　　To deliver the garments on time, after receiving the special Olympics order, Consinee worked tirelessly in the period before the Chinese New Year holidays and managed to fulfill the orders ahead of the Games.

　　Most of the kitchen equipment in the Olympic Village was produced by Xiangying, a company located in Jiangshan, Ningbo. They supplied more than twenty sets of equipment, include unmanned rice steam cooking lines, automatic stir-friers, vegetable cleaning machines, vegetable slicers, and smart food steamers. Each day, they are used to prepare food for 10,000 people.