China Focus: Beijing Winter Olympics boosts China's winter sports

BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Du Mingxuan has spent almost every day of his winter break practicing snowboard tricks at a ski resort in Jilin City in northeast China's Jilin Province.

After five years of hard training, the 10-year-old snowboarder is already a veteran in the field. He is now busy working on his front flips and aims to master the frontside 720, an aerial maneuver in which the snowboarder rotates 720