Mascot

Dong Dong

Think snow. It may be hot and humid in Beijing right now, but the World University Winter Games will be a different story, in February 2009, in Harbin, China.

Organizers are expecting a lot from the official mascot. Dong Dong "manifests strong local features of North China and gives prominence to the special characteristics of the host city and winter sporting events by personifying the basic element of the snowflake. As a carrier of Winter Universiade vision and the Olympic Spirit, the mascot, with an angelic smile and pure, innocent, lively and adorable image, will spread passion and joy, health and wisdom, luck and happiness, together with wonderful blessings, to the youth and peoples around the world … The mascot inherits and carries forward the tradition, culture and humanism of the host city."