In the post-National Games era, Xi’an Sports embarks on a new journey of high-quality development
Sports benefits the people to make the National Games dividends lasting
2021-11-15 08:52:02Source: Xi’an News Network
Editor’s note
For the development of sports in Xi’an, the success of the 14th National Games is a milestone. Xi’an has firmly grasped the historical opportunity of hosting the 14th National Games, speeding up the shifting of mass sports, competitive sports, and sports industries. The excavation and display of sports culture has also enriched the connotation of a historical and cultural city. The successful holding of the 14th National Games has left Xi’an with modern stadiums and a richer national fitness infrastructure, increased the enthusiasm of the “National Games”, and trained the teams for hosting high-level competitions. Inheriting and carrying forward the precious legacy left by the 14th National Games in Xi’an, Xi’an Sports will open a new chapter in all-round high-quality development.
The National Games will benefit the people. The 14th National Games set off an upsurge for the citizens of the ancient city of Xi’an to actively participate in sports and fitness. The completion and commissioning of a large number of national fitness infrastructure also made people living in this city feel the fruits of the National Games. Although the 14th National Games has come to a successful conclusion, the dividends of sports to benefit the people are destined to continue to be released. The relevant person in charge of the Xi’an Sports Bureau said in an interview, “The concept of’National Games for the People, National Games for the People’ has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Continued efforts in facilities construction and policy support have enabled the general public to enjoy more benefits of sports for the people in the post-National Games era.”
Everyone is a participant
To host the National Games, it is necessary to plant the “seeds” of sports in the hearts of the people. The National Games is a comprehensive sports meeting with the largest scale and the highest level of competition in the country. The holding of the National Games is a major historical opportunity to accelerate the development of national fitness. During the preparations for the 14th National Games, Xi’an Sports Bureau adhered to the people-centered development philosophy, vigorously sang the main theme of “National Games for the People, National Games for the People”, meticulously planned and organized a series of national fitness activities, and ignited the ancient city of Xi’an. The enthusiasm for sports also created a good social atmosphere for the 14th National Games.
In the second phase of the Happy Forest Belt Movement Valley, citizens use equipment to exercise.
After the National Games entered “Shaanxi Time”, the Xi’an Sports Bureau earnestly implemented the “National Fitness Program”, centered on the theme of “Welcome the National Games and Benefit the People’s Livelihood”, organized a total of more than 2,300 national fitness activities (times) in various forms. The number of people who regularly participate in physical exercise accounts for more than 50% of the total population. Mass physical fitness is regularized and life-oriented; 302 new sports morning and evening exercise sites and 8,771 social sports instructors have been added. The nationwide fitness organization network covers the city; national fitness monitoring has been established. There are 29 scientific fitness guidance stations (points), with a total of more than 200,000 people monitored in the city, and scientific fitness guidance services are frequent and extensive; make full use of various platform resources to tell sports stories, popularize sports knowledge, and carry out competitions for excellence. Liang District, Chang’an District, and Zhouzhi County have been named as Shaanxi Province National Fitness Demonstration Districts (Counties), and a large number of provincial and municipal excellent social sports instructors and sports activity sites have emerged.
The scene of the National Fitness Skills Competition. (Profile picture)
Since last year, with the 14th National Games approaching, the nationwide fitness activities have set off an upsurge. The Municipal Sports Bureau meticulously planned and organized a series of Xi’an National Fitness activities with the theme of “Welcome the National Games and benefit the people’s livelihood, I want to go to the National Games, meet in Xi’an and build a dream for the National Games”, including green cycling, online national fitness conferences, and National Games. Popularization of knowledge, “Let’s watch me and the champion, National Games stars come to my home”, community badminton games, community table tennis games, community basketball games, etc. The series of activities attracted a total of 251,000 people to participate, and radiated more than 3 million people. At the same time, the “I want to go to the National Games” marathon was meticulously organized, and a total of 14 games (3 full horses, 5 half horses, and 6 mini horses) were held, attracting 73,900 participants and 360,000 online participants. . In addition, organize and carry out the selection activities of Xi’an mass sports “sports masters”. This activity aims to implement the “National Games, Walk Together”, mobilize the public to actively participate in the National Fitness Activities, take the form of “Five Entries” in mass sports, and “I want to participate in the National Games, Sports Talent Show” as The theme, through the extensive development of community sports meets and online sports meets, actively build a large stage for national fitness, let “sports masters” and “grassroots stars” display their skills and demeanor, and radiate to drive the popular development of mass sports. Through vigorous promotion and publicity throughout the city, a total of 216 people from 32 units participated in the selection. After the final review by experts, 100 “sports masters” and 10 advanced units were selected.
A bird’s eye view of the second phase of the Happy Forest Belt Dynamic Valley Stadium.
Venue facilities are the foundation and guarantee of national fitness. During the preparations for the 14th National Games, Xi’an’s national fitness infrastructure also made great progress. Among them, 677 community fitness paths and 536 farmers’ sports fitness projects have been implemented, achieving full coverage of the city’s community and administrative villages’ national fitness infrastructure; 63 new multi-functional sports fields, 20 gymnasiums, and 2 community national fitness centers have been constructed. There are 11 large-scale national fitness parks (including 5 smart parks). The seventh national general survey of sports venues has been completed. Today, there are more than 10,000 sports venues of various types in the city, with a per capita sports area of 2.0 square meters. The construction of the “15-minute fitness circle” has achieved remarkable results. On September 16 this year, more than 500 advanced individual representatives from the national mass sports advanced units and advanced collectives of the national sports system came to the National Fitness Park of Daming Palace National Heritage Park. The representatives watched the 11-a-side football field and smart fitness in turn. During the observation period, everyone was full of praise for the new concept, new behavior and new atmosphere of Xi’an security people’s fitness.
Group projects participate in the competition and hold a double harvest
“People-centered” is not only reflected in the development of national fitness activities and the construction of national fitness infrastructure, but also in the organization and participation of mass sports projects in the 14th National Games.
According to the deployment arrangements of the Organizing Committee of the 14th National Games, Xi’an is responsible for undertaking the bocce competition and four performances of Tai Chi, radio gymnastics, square dance, and Health Qigong. On August 22, the mass performance project of the 14th National Games was launched in Xi’an Qujiang International Conference Center. In this event, uploaded videos are used to participate online. Through extensive offline participation and online centralized display, the general public will pay attention to sports, participate in sports, and enjoy sports, and further enhance the sense of gain and happiness. As of the end of August, the total number of votes for online exhibitions was 66.253 million, the number of page views on the exhibition platform was about 72.243 million, and the number of visitors was about 9.149 million. Judging from various data, this event has a wide coverage of the crowd and high participation of the masses, which truly embodies the purpose of “National Games for the People, National Games for the People”. On September 15th, the bocce event kicked off in Xi’an Institute of Physical Education. This competition was not only a big party for bocce players across the country, but the meticulous organization and caring service of the game also won everyone’s unanimous praise. The Group Department of the National Sports Administration also spoke highly of the work of Xi’an’s undertaking of mass projects, saying that the performance projects undertaken by it had created six “firsts”: the first National Games set up a mass event performance project; the first mass event team covered the country 32 Provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions; for the first time, online competition and offline review were used; for the first time, epidemic control and smooth competition were combined; for the first time, four exhibition projects were held in the same place; for the first time, the model of decentralized reporting and centralized review was adopted. The petanque competitions undertaken also created “three firsts”: the project entered the National Games for the first time; sports teams and technical officials settled in the National Games Village for the first time; and for the first time, the event activities were combined with sports experience promotion. The mass projects undertaken by Xi’an were successfully held, which not only contributed to the success of the 14th National Games, but also accumulated experience in how to organize large-scale group activities in my country during the special period of the epidemic.
The mass event is not only exciting, but also brilliant in the competition. In the table tennis competition of mass events in the 14th National Games, Xi’an player Xia Yunfeng helped the Shaanxi team win the men’s 60-69-year-old group championship. This is our province’s table tennis in the National Games. The first gold medal on the field. In addition, our city’s players Xue Shanshan, Lai Yan, and Liu Haifeng won the women’s 70+, women’s 40-49 and men’s 50-59 third place respectively. Xue Shanshan, Lai Yan, Wang Caiqin and Wang Xun also won on behalf of the Shaanxi women’s team. The women’s team silver medal was also the first medal of our province in the table tennis team event of the National Games. There are also chess events that have rewritten history. In the Go men’s individual open group competition, our city player Tao Xinran won the province’s first National Games Go event champion and also the province’s first national Go champion. In the chess competition, our city’s players also helped the Shaanxi team get the third place in the men’s amateur team. This is also the best record in the history of our province in participating in the national chess competition.
It was Wang Yang, a teacher from Xi’an Institute of Physical Education who won the first gold in the mass events after the opening ceremony of the 14th National Games for our province. She won the championship in the women’s single continuous throwing event of the big metal ball in the petanque competition. In the petanque competition of the 14th National Games, our city players won 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze. In other competitions, our city’s players also won the championship of the women’s five-a-side football team, the runner-up of the men’s speed roller skating 1000m race and the third runner-up of the tennis women’s team.
Our city’s athletes also performed well in the performances. They won the first prize in the urban street (community) group of the broadcast gymnastics team competition, the second prize in the urban street (community) group of the broadcast gymnastics elite competition, and the first prize in the Health Qigong Yijinjing group. , Second prize in the Ba Duan Jin group of Health Qigong, third prize in the enterprise and public institution group of the twenty-four simplified taijiquan, and third prize in the enterprise and public institution group of the forty-two taijiquan.
Draw a blueprint and the National Games bonus will never end
The wonderful and successful 14th National Games not only provided a sports feast for the people of the whole country, but also left a precious legacy of “National Games for the People, National Games for the People” of the ancient city of Xi’an. In the post-National Games era, the Xi’an Sports Bureau has also drawn up a “road map” to continuously promote sports to benefit the people and continue to release National Games dividends.
As early as before the opening of the 14th National Games, the “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Sports Development in Xi’an” (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”) had been issued, in which mass sports were placed in the most important position. The “Plan” has set clear goals for the development of Xi’an’s national fitness industry: substantial progress has been made in the construction of a national fitness public service system, the proportion of people who regularly participate in physical exercise has reached more than 53% of the city’s population, and the per capita sports area has reached 2.6 square meters. More than 91.5% of urban and rural residents have passed the “National Fitness Standards”, and the number of social sports instructors has exceeded 30,000.
In order to realize the blueprint for mass sports in the “Plan”, Xi’an Sports Bureau has formulated specific measures. One is to substantially improve the quality of public sports facilities. Formulate the “Special Plan for the Spatial Layout of Sports Facilities in Xi’an (2020-2035)”, under the premise of ecological restoration and environmental protection, increase the scientific and effective planning, guarantee and management of the city’s sports infrastructure land and construction, and strive to complement sports Infrastructure weaknesses. Strictly implement the “Urban Public Service Facilities Planning Standards” and “Urban Residential District Planning Design Standards” to ensure urban sports land; in conjunction with the construction of “three rivers and one mountain”, use natural endowments such as rivers and water areas to coordinate the city’s intercity highways, urban roads, and characteristics Public resources such as blocks, squares, parks, etc., accelerate the construction of fitness trails, cycling paths, community fitness centers, sports parks, community multi-functional sports fields and other venues to consolidate the “15-minute fitness circle”. Develop and construct sports facilities suitable for sports of different groups of people. Implement free or low-cost opening policies for public sports facilities, encourage stadiums to be fully opened to the outside world without affecting normal use, and increase the utilization rate of stadiums.
Second, carry out a wealth of national fitness activities. In accordance with the development ideas of normalization, quality, socialization, and marketization, vigorously develop sports that the masses love to hear, and encourage the development and promotion of characteristic sports suitable for different groups of people and different geographical characteristics. To carry out the “Sunshine Sports, Healthy Growth” youth sunshine sports activities, primary and secondary schools should strictly follow the national curriculum plan and curriculum standards to start good physical education, vigorously develop children’s sports; encourage all industries to organize comprehensive activities suitable for all types of people. National fitness activities; guide the community to carry out national fitness activities around the masses. Focus on the fitness activities of children, women, the elderly, the disabled, and other groups, and strive to achieve the equalization of fitness services for the whole nation.
Third, improve the nationwide fitness service network. Improve and improve the National Fitness Joint Conference mechanism, follow the “4+X” model, and do a good job in the construction of four comprehensive associations: city and district (county) sports associations, social sports instructors associations, senior sports associations, and farmers sports associations. Encourage the construction of sports organizations in streets (towns) and communities (administrative villages), form a four-level national fitness organization network at the city, district (county), street (town), and community (administrative village) levels, and improve the long-term mechanism of scientific guidance and services for national fitness. Encourage the development of sports training institutions and sports clubs, and enrich national fitness service institutions. Guide and support districts and counties to create national and provincial demonstration zones (counties) for national sports and fitness.
Fourth, improve the level of scientific fitness guidance. Construct the city’s national fitness monitoring network and service system, build the Xi’an National Fitness Monitoring Center, and publish national fitness monitoring reports on a periodic basis; promote the integration of sports and medicine and non-medical health interventions, and use scientific fitness in health promotion, sub-health restoration, chronic disease prevention and Active role in rehabilitation and other aspects, carry out exercise risk assessment. Regularly carry out scientific fitness guidance services into government agencies, communities, towns and villages, schools, and enterprises. Improve smart service capabilities, build a “Xi’an Sports Manager” service platform, actively carry out intelligent and precise fitness guidance such as online events, online training, and information release; promote the construction of smart fitness parks and smart fitness trails.
The relevant person in charge of the Xi’an Sports Bureau said, “To do a good job in the national fitness program is the need to practice the people-centered development ideology, the need to build a healthy China, and the foundation for the competitive sports and sports industry. We will definitely Grasping the historical opportunity of successfully hosting the 14th National Games, the mass sports work of our city will be raised to a higher level.”
Text / Yan Bin, Chief Correspondent of Xi’an Newspapers/Reporter Xie Wei
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