And, with the 2022 Winter Olympics just a few years away, the push for more Chinese people to hit the slopes has been sounded from the highest office in the land.

China aims to have a staggering 300 million winter sports participants and 1,000 ski areas by the 2022 Games.

By comparison, the U.S. currently has 52.8 million ski visits at 463 ski areas.

America made the world's first "artificial snow" in 1952 at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel in New York State, and since, has perfected the art.

Snowmaking is the production of snow by forcing water and freezing, pressurized air through high-speed fans and are called "snow guns" or "snow cannons."

"It's a great marriage - one country that has a history of making snow, and another that has millions of skiers," said Aspen Mountain's snow making manager Harry Link.

"Northeast China is cold, but it doesn't get much precipitation," said Link, who made snow last month at 8,000-feet for the prestigious World Cup downhill finals.

Aspen, a world-renowned European-style ski village that dates back to 1946, is home to many famous celebrities and was called the "No. 1 Ski Resort" in America by Ski Magazine in 2017.

"China's climate is very similar to Colorado's - dry and cold - good for making show," Link told Xinhua, who said he uses snow guns and cannons made by both SMI and Italian snow maker TechnoAlpin.

Meanwhile, SMI has equipment in about 100 Chinese resorts today, and is actively designing and building snow making systems at the newest, most sophisticated ski resorts ever built.

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