focus on the 7th chongqing municipal games | wonderful municipal games "new" to the future - written on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the 7th chongqing municipal games
2024-09-20
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at 8 o'clock tonight, the opening ceremony of the 7th chongqing games (hereinafter referred to as the 7th chongqing games), which is the city's highest-standard, highest-level, largest-scale and most influential comprehensive sports event, will be held at the hechuan district sports center. this also marks that the 7th chongqing games is about to enter the most exciting stage of the competition.
since the early competitions started in march this year, the 7th city games has set off wave after wave of sports craze across the city. many exciting competitions have been staged one after another. participating in and watching the games has become a new fashion for many citizens, making "sports feast shared by all people" a reality.
emerging events are widely popular, potential talents are emerging, many records have been broken, new models of venue utilization are explored, and new scenarios are constructed for sports and tourism consumption... the 7th city games have continuously stimulated new vitality and created a new atmosphere in the city. it continues to write a new chapter in which sports help create a better life for the people and effectively promotes the acceleration of the construction of a modern sports powerhouse.
a year of great success
chongqing sports "hot search" continues
2024 is the year of major sports competitions.
from the 14th national winter games to the paris olympics, chongqing athletes have won many victories in domestic and international competitions.
in february, the chongqing delegation, which made its debut at the national winter games, won 5 gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze medals at the 14th national winter games, writing a new history for chongqing's ice and snow sports.
on august 10, in the rhythmic gymnastics team all-around final at the paris olympics, ding xinyi from chongqing and her teammates won the first olympic gold medal for the chinese team in this event.
not only that, high-level international competitions have also been held in chongqing one after another.
from the end of may to the beginning of june, the top international table tennis event, wtt chongqing championship 2024, was held in chongqing. the high-level event and the appearance of world-class athletes such as fan zhendong, sun yingsha, wang chuqin, and wang manyu attracted table tennis enthusiasts from all over the world, setting off a wave of "traveling in chongqing with the event".
from the end of august to the beginning of september, the highest-level intercontinental club basketball tournament in china - the 2024 "belt and road" china-europe basketball championship cup will once again be staged in our city.
in late november, the 2024 china cup world figure skating grand prix hosted by the international skating union will be held in chongqing for the fourth time.
every outstanding achievement and every high-level competition makes chongqing sports a hot topic and the focus of sports fans across the country and even the world.
a relevant person in charge of the municipal sports bureau introduced that in recent years, our city has anchored the goal of "building a modern sports powerhouse", launched a tough campaign to reform and develop competitive sports, actively applied to host high-level events, vigorously promoted the construction of venues and facilities around the masses, carried out national fitness activities, and constantly stimulated the potential for sports consumption, empowering urban development with the power of sports.
new projects lead sports fashion
new record ignites future expectations
"this city games has two groups, youth and adult, with a total of 45 major events, 1,015 minor events, and 9 performance events. the scale of the event is nearly 30,000 people, setting a record for all previous city games." a relevant person in charge of the municipal sports bureau introduced.
among them, the youth group included new sports such as baseball and softball, triathlon, skateboarding, equestrianism, break dancing, and cross-country roller skating for the first time, and the adult group added dragon boat and golf. the performance project added cheerleading, squash, bmx, cricket, fishing and other popular sports. in terms of setting up the minor events, the key projects and development trends were taken into consideration, and the number of minor events in track and field, fencing, golf, martial arts sanda, chess and cards was appropriately increased.
among the newly added events, the most popular ones are breakdancing and bmx, which were popular in the paris olympics not long ago.
the breakdance competition of the 7th city games held in early june attracted nearly 200 young contestants from 23 teams across the city to compete in dance and ignite their youth. the bmx competition held in mid-july also attracted many young people to participate enthusiastically. the dynamic competition field and cool postures became a hot topic of the 7th city games.
at present, the 7th city games is in full swing, with good news coming from various venues, and many city records have been broken. as of early september, 53 events in the 7th city games broke city records (40 in swimming, 2 in shooting, and 11 in weightlifting), 74 new city records were set (40 in swimming, 2 in shooting, and 32 in weightlifting), and 221 people broke city records (151 in swimming, 4 in shooting, and 66 in weightlifting).
zhang suyi, 18 years old this year, is a female weightlifter of the fuling district delegation. in the 76kg weightlifting competition of the women's group a of the youth group at the 7th chongqing games, she broke the chongqing records for snatch, clean and jerk, and total score, and her total score exceeded the original record by 20kg.
"breaking the record gives me more confidence to continue to face challenges." zhang suyi told reporters that in the four years of training with the weightlifting team of fuling district sports school, thanks to scientific and hard training, she has continuously broken through herself and successfully created her personal best in the municipal games.
why do athletes participating in the 7th municipal games frequently set new records? the relevant person in charge of the municipal sports bureau said that competitive sports are the top priority of the reform and development of the city's sports system in recent years. the innovation of management mechanisms, the improvement of the system, the use of technology to help prepare for the games, and the upgrading and optimization of training venues have all provided a strong guarantee for the improvement of athletes' competitive level.
opening ceremony highlights humanity and technology
venue utilization explores new long-term development model
a historic city, a livable river city, a beautiful youthful city, and a civilized and blessed city. these are the personal feelings of song fei, the chief director of the opening ceremony of the 7th municipal games, after coming to hechuan. "i used to know chongqing in a label-like way. during this time working in hechuan, i have a more multi-dimensional understanding of chongqing and hechuan."
hechuan, the host city of this city games, has distinct urban characteristics. what new atmosphere will be presented when this beautiful place where three rivers converge "encounters" a dynamic and intense sports event?
"hechuan, which has been established for more than 2,300 years, has a humanistic temperament that has lasted for thousands of years. the 7th city games will inject as many humanistic elements of hechuan and chongqing as possible into the venue layout, promotional products, and competition uniforms." the relevant person in charge of hechuan district expressed the hope that more "humanistic heritage" will be left for the 7th city games.
it has both humanities and history and a strong sense of technology. according to the reporter, this municipal games highlighted the empowerment of science and technology and digital games, and developed the hechuan smart cultural tourism games information system. the registration, schedule, and results statistics of various events are all fully digitally managed and served. in the torch relay and torch lighting ceremony, digital means were fully utilized to present a unique visual effect to the audience. at the same time, relying on the construction of hechuan's "city brain", digital application scenarios are expanded in competition venues, transportation facilities, tourist attractions, etc., so that participating athletes can enjoy the convenience of digitalization.
it is worth noting that in preparation for the 7th city games, hechuan district has newly built "one stadium and two halls" - the hechuan district sports center, the gymnasium and the swimming pool, and renovated the hechuan middle school, hechuan experimental middle school, chongqing yucai vocational education center stadium and other venues. "we adhere to the concept of 'holding games in the current period and promoting development in the long term', neither lowering standards and abandoning excellence, nor ineffective investment and causing waste, to ensure that the entire event is simple but not simplistic, frugal but not losing excellence." zhao hongwei, director of the hechuan district sports development center, said that after the completion of the event, the sports center will be handed over to a professional team for operation, creating a multi-format urban complex with cultural, sports, housing, commerce, exhibitions, etc., to promote the integrated development of culture, sports and tourism.
in the future, these venues will not only host top-level individual sports events and provincial (municipal) level comprehensive sports events, but will also serve as major venues for national fitness and large-scale festivals, driving national fitness and cultural tourism consumption, cultivating and developing fitness and leisure, competition and performance and other service formats, and promoting high-quality development of the sports industry.
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