China is hyping the 2022 Beijing Olympics with a 60-foot tall grinning snowman

• China has built a 60-foot-tall grinning snowman for the Winter Olympics.
• The snowman was made by 120 sculptors from 2,000 cubic meters of snow.

To hype the Beijing Olympics, China is building a giant snowman to welcome visitors to the country.

The huge grinning snowman is 60 feet tall and 42 feet wide and was built in the wintry northeastern Chinese city of Harbin. In a video posted by state-linked media CGTN, workers were seen shoveling snow on January 8 around the base of the snowman.

The snowman is located at a local landmark, Harbin's Music Park, a tourist hotspot along the Songhua River. Each winter, the city hosts an annual snow and ice sculpture festival.

According to CGTN, some 120 sculptors used around 2,000 cubic meters of snow to create the snowman. The outlet reported that some 3,000 tourists visit the snowman every day.

China last week also unveiled a spanking new driverless bullet train called the Fuxing, which will ferry athletes and journalists to and from the Olympic venues in Beijing and satellite locales in Zhangjiakou. The train takes just 50 minutes to move its passengers from Beijing's downtown district to the Olympic venues in Zhangjiakou, a trip which typically takes around three hours via a regular express train.

The Beijing Olympics kick off on February 4, 2022. The country plans to implement a "closed-loop" bubble, where athletes, officials, broadcasters, and journalists alike will be able to move only within designated locales.