Due to its late start, China had neither tracks nor sleds of domestic production, thus having to resort to foreign-made equipment.

In July 2018, team coaches were replaced, hiring Canadian Pierre Lueders (former coach of South Korea's national bobsleigh team that won Olympic silver in Pyeongchang 2018) and German André Lange.

[6] In March 2021, the Winter Sports Centre of the General Administration of State Sports commissioned the automotive company FAW Group and the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation to study and build new Chinese bobsleds.

After just 200 days of work, a new bobsled all "made in China" was unveiled on 31 December that year, described 'as fast as lightning, as light as a swallow, and as strong as a rock'.

[11] On 18 February 2023, during the Sigulda, Latvia event of the IBSF World Championships 2023, female bobsledder Ying Qing finished third in the monobob event, allowing her to finish within the top ten in the final Women's ranking of the 2023 Bobsleigh World Cup.