Why was Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's pairs victory important for China?

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Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games Official logo of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The logo is an interpretation of an inukshuk, a traditional Inuit stone sculpture.

At the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, the pairs figure skating victory by Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo was significant because it earned China its first-ever gold medal in figure skating.1