China will increase the supply of merchandise featuring 'Bing Dwen Dwen', the panda mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the organising committee said on Sunday.
A man wearing a face mask, following the coronavirus disease outbreak, walks past an image of Bing Dwen Dwen, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Mascot, in front of people queueing to enter a flagship merchandise store for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Wangfujing street in Beijing, China February 5, 2022.
"We are paying close attention to this problem ... we are coordinating to increase supply of 'Bing Dwen Dwen'," Zhao Weidong, a spokesman of the Beijing Olympics organising committee, told a news conference.Zhao said the tight supply of "Bing Dwen Dwen" was partly because the manufacturing plants were shut down for the week-long Lunar New Year, which overlaps with the Olympics.
Rarely have mascots sold out after the first few days of any Olympics let alone become household names so quickly. Some mascots remain almost in obscurity even during the Games, as was the case at the 2018 Rio de Janeiro Olympics with "Vinicius" or the 2002 Salt Lake City trio of Powder the hare, Copper the coyote and Coal the black bear.
"One Dwen at each family" has become the No.4 most trending topic on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, with 10.38 million viewers in the past 24 hours. Chinese internet users are calling for the organisers to meet the surging demand.
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