China are being accused of stealing their Winter Olympics song from a Disney movie

CHINA has done some wacky things over the years, but this move from Beijing’s Olympic Organising Committee is just plain weird.

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FOR a country with a one-child policy, you wouldn’t think China would be overly concerned with catering for its younger citizens.

But that might be too harsh on the global economic superpower given allegations surrounding Beijing’s recent victory for the rights to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The country has come under fire for allegedly using the exact same tune from a hit Disney movie for its own Olympic song. Beijing put forward “The Snow and Ice Dance” as one of 10 official songs submitted to the International Olympic Committee as part of its application to host the major sporting event in seven years. The only problem is, it sounds almost identical to the song “Let it Go” used in the 2013 animated film Frozen.

Chinese business magazine Caijing Online conducted a technical analysis of the two songs and found that “Both songs employed a piano as the major instrument, have similar prelude chords, an eight-beat introduction, and they run at almost exactly the same tempo”.

Listen to the two songs below to decide for yourself how similar they are.

This isn’t the first time China has been involved in a plagiarism row. Just last month Chinese animated film The Autobots was criticised for using characters that looked incredibly similar to those used in Cars, a movie by Disney’s Pixar Animation Studios.

There have been several concerns raised about Beijing’s suitability to host the 2022 Winter Olympics since it was named the host city on Friday. While temperatures in Beijing can drop to below freezing in winter, snow rarely forms because the area is extremely dry, so artificial snow will have to be used instead.

There has also been discontent around the decision to name Beijing as hosts given China’s poor human rights record, with hundreds of lawyers being detained in the last month alone.