The International Ski Federation (FIS) has opened a 400-square-meter liason office in Beijing, following the formation of a China Working Group at a recent meeting of the FIS Council, led by one of the council’s members, Moses Liang-Cheng Zheng. The announcement was made at a Chinese National Snow Sports press conference where national and regional sport administration leaders reiterated the Chinese government’s ambitious plan to get 300 million Chinese people practicing ice and snow sports before the next Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in 2022.
Since the election of Johan Eliasch as FIS’ new president one month ago, the FIS Council met twice. It decided to create nine new working groups and various committees and to hold a General Assembly and Extraordinary Congress to make further decisions on Sept. 22.
A new FIS Strategic Planning Working Group will recommend a four-year Horizon Plan that will be reviewed and updated annually. Aside from an advisory group and two other committees, FIS also has a new environmental, sustainability and governance committee and three new Future Vision working groups to grow participation and competition in the Nordic countries, in alpine skiing and in freestyle, snowboard and freeski.
