Unlike residents of Munich, who in a referendum in November rejected plans to bid for the 2022 winter Olympics, the 4.6m people of Zhangjiakou were not consulted about their application to host the 2022 games jointly with Beijing. Public referendums are not big in China, though in Zhangjiakou, a city 200km (125 miles) north-west of Beijing, officials would have had little to fear. Although the odds are against them, residents seem uniformly to support the effort.
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