A Badge of Honor
Jan 20, 2022
4 minutes
The medals for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 passed the quality test and were accepted by the Games’ organizing committee at the Shanghai Minting Corp. (SMC), the medals’ producer, on January 7.
The medals, inspired by bi, a circular jade ceremonial disk dating back 5,000 years, are officially named Tongxin, meaning together as one.
According to Liu Ke, Chairman of the SMC, each medal has undergone 18 production processes and 20 quality inspections before its acceptance.
Meticulous design
The medals were unveiled on October 26, 2021, 100 days ahead of the opening of Beijing 2022.
Hang Hai, an associate professor of design from
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