Sports parks, fitness trails, fitness centers… National fitness is “hot”!
Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the “Opinions on Building a Higher-level Public Service System for National Fitness”, proposing that the national strategy for national fitness should be implemented in depth, to build a coordinated urban and rural area, fair and accessible, convenient service, and efficient operation. , Guarantee a powerful public service system for national fitness at a higher level.
The “Opinions” propose that by 2025, the per capita sports area in the country will reach 2.6 square meters, and the proportion of people who regularly participate in physical exercise will reach 38.5%. Inclusive public services provided by social forces are available for payment, affordable, quality guaranteed, and safety regulated.
Ou Xiaoli, Director of the Social Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission: Taking enhancing people’s physique and improving the health level of the whole people as the fundamental purpose, let the public service of fitness for the whole people cover the whole people, serve the whole people, and benefit the whole people, and promote fitness for the whole people to become a way of life and a new way of life. social fashion.
Expand new space for national fitness and speed up the construction of national trails
Speaking of the starting road, many people think that it is a road for fitness and leisure. In fact, the trail is a slow-moving corridor system that includes various concepts such as fitness and leisure, outdoor play and so on. According to the “Opinions on Building a Higher-level National Fitness Public Service System”, my country will formulate the overall plan and construction guidelines for the construction of the national trail system to expand new space for national fitness.
Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province is close to the mountains and the sea. After years of construction, a 500-kilometer mountaineering and fitness trail connects 17 streets and towns and more than 90% of the administrative villages in Ninghai. , villages, scenic spots and other resources are strung together into a chain, and an outdoor sports system covering the whole area has been initially built.
Chen Shuangyin, deputy director of Ninghai County Sports Development Center in Ningbo, Zhejiang: Citizens are not only walking on the mountaineering trails, they may experience other types of sports, such as cross-country, canyon crossing, camping, gliding, and more. There are some team outdoor outreach and so on.
Ningbo citizens: The whole person feels a very relaxed and happy feeling when they come in. This trail can not only exercise, but also relax.
At present, there are 13 mountaineering and fitness trails named by the Mountaineering Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of China, with a total length of 1,600 kilometers, equivalent to the number of trails within 10 square kilometers in Europe. Generally speaking, my country’s fitness trails have problems such as old concept, short length, small scale, and damage to natural resources and cultural relics. In this regard, the “Opinions on Building a Higher-level National Fitness Public Service System” proposes that it is necessary to expand Create a new space for national fitness, and formulate the overall plan and construction guidelines for the construction of the national trail system. In the future, my country’s national trails will pass through natural landforms or historical and cultural sites such as mountain forests, rivers and canyons, grasslands and deserts, so that people can experience the beauty of humanity.
Optimize the layout of the old factory building into a sports park
Sports parks integrating multiple functions have been favored by more and more citizens. The newly released “Opinions” proposed that the construction of sports parks should be promoted and more resources should be revitalized in combination with urban renewal.
Entering this cultural, creative and sports park in Zigong, Sichuan, new life, new fashion, and old factories are integrated with each other. Various fitness and leisure facilities such as reading, playing football, boating, fitness, entertainment, etc. have brought good and comfortable time to citizens. And here used to be the gymnasium, kindergarten and old factory building in the southwest Sichuan mining area.
Luo Dongmei, a citizen of Zigong: After the urban renewal, it also brings a lot of convenience to our citizens. When I’m not working on weekends, I can go to this place to read my favorite books, and I feel very comfortable and happy inside.
Sichuan organically combines the protection and utilization of old industrial heritage with urban renewal, fully taps the potential of existing land, and takes artistic creativity as the core to create a theme-style sports park integrating cultural and creative experience, sports, tourism, leisure consumption, and cultural promotion.
Chen Kai, deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission: Build a group of small and micro sports parks around the masses and create a new carrier for national fitness.
In order to optimize the layout of urban national fitness functions, the “Opinions on Building a Higher-level National Fitness Public Service System” proposes that the old urban area should be combined with urban renewal actions, encourage the use of market mechanisms to revitalize the stock of low-efficiency land, and increase open fitness facilities; The new urban area should be combined with the urban white space and green, scientifically plan the community fitness center, and build fitness facilities that integrate with production and living spaces, and are nested with green rings, green corridors and green wedges.
Government-led to inspire social forces to participate in national fitness
In addition, the “Opinions” also proposed to give full play to the guiding and leveraging role of investment within the central budget, improve local financial support policies, and support willing social capital to invest in national fitness.
Qingshan Sports Park in Loudi, Hunan used to be an old city park. In 2021, after the reconstruction and expansion of Hunan Sports Industry Group, it will become a sports and leisure venue covering an area of 109,000 square meters and a greening rate of nearly 80%. The park is equipped with 5,000 meters of intelligent fitness trails, recreational areas for children and the elderly, basketball courts, badminton courts and other sports areas, and is equipped with intelligent management systems such as intelligent health monitoring, environmental monitoring, and crowd flow monitoring. , residents can check their physical condition at any time while exercising.
As a public service project, Qingshan Sports Park is open to the public free of charge. However, the total investment of this project is nearly 34 million yuan. Without the support of the government, it cannot be constructed and operated by the enterprise itself.
Hunan also proposed to reduce or exempt the rent and taxes of construction land for the reconstruction and expansion of the sports park; the water and electricity prices of the sports park shall be subject to public welfare standards; at the same time, local financial funds shall be rewarded and subsidized for the construction and operation of the sports park. Under this model, Hunan has built, renovated and expanded 4 sports parks.
It is understood that from 2021 to the present, the National Development and Reform Commission has arranged a total of 4.1 billion yuan of investment in the central budget to support the construction of fitness facilities such as sports parks, fitness trails, and national fitness centers, driving local governments and social capital to invest about 6 billion yuan.