President Xi Jinping inspects the National Ski Jumping Center in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei province, Jan 19, 2021. (JU PENG / XINHUA)

BEIJING - President Xi Jinping has called for advancing preparation work for the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games against difficulties and with "greater perfection."

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Xi, also General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks on Wednesday when presiding over a meeting on the Beijing 2022 preparations, following his inspection tours of Beijing and Hebei.