Zhangjiakou

This year’s Winter Olympics are being held in Beijing, China, and in two areas northwest of Beijing, Yangqing and Zhangjiakou.

Charles Wang runs a small travel company with eight employees in Zhangjiakou, in northern China.

Zhangjiakou and Chengde, cities in the same province, also broke temperature records for June, according to CCTV.

“If the transplant is not successful, all the money we spent will be wasted, all the pain I endured will be wasted, and we will have to start over again,” said Ms. Guo, who had traveled 125 miles to Beijing from the northern city of Zhangjiakou.

Since her transplant, which was successful, in late November, Ms. Guo has been taking it easy back at home in Zhangjiakou.