Twelve venues will be used as competition sites if Beijing wins the 2022 Winter Olympics bid.

There are also three training sites and a number of non-competition venues prepared for the Games.

For the 12 competition venues, six are ready and six will be newly built. These venues are distributed in three zones - downtown Beijing, Yanqing county, Beijing, and Zhangjiakou.

Venue: Yanqing county, Beijing

Events: bobsled, skeleton, luge and alpine skiing

A skier on a ski field in Yanqing county, Jan 10, 2015. Yanqing zone is located to the northwest of the Beijing zone along the Yanshan Mountain Range, and is ideal for the snow sports competitions of Beijing 2022. [Photo/CFP]