Participants in the 2017 Xiamen International Marathon. In recent years, marathon has gradually entered people’s lives and become an exercise program for many fitness enthusiasts.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Wei Peiquan photo
On April 11th, 2017, the national video conference on mass sports was held, which was the National Fitness Program (2016— After the promulgation of "2020)", the first national mass sports work conference was held. The general assembly adopted the method of "sticking a pole in the end", from the State Sports General Administration and its various departments to the personnel of relevant departments such as sports in various provinces, cities and even counties to attend the meeting. At the meeting, seven units spoke to exchange experiences.
Sports show multiple values.
In recent years, people’s health concept has undergone profound changes, and the concept of "exercise is a good doctor" has gradually taken root in people’s hearts. The comprehensive value and multiple functions of sports have been paid more attention to by people, and it is playing a unique role in promoting national fitness.
Exercise and fitness improve the quality of life. Guangdong province has built community sports parks with physical exercise and leisure fitness functions by using urban corners, flower planting areas, street green spaces and other idle places, and won the "China Human Settlements Model Award" in 2015. "The corner has become a city business card, and the results benefit the people." Wang Yuping, director of the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau, said.
Fitness demand drives the sports industry, which in turn promotes consumption upgrading. Deqing County, Zhejiang Province encourages residents to use social security cards to swipe their cards at designated sports venues for fitness. The medical insurance card has become a "balance treasure" for people’s health. There are 123 sports industry enterprises in the county, and the income in 2016 exceeded 12 billion yuan.
There is no strict boundary between mass sports and competitive sports. Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province takes the combination of physical education and education as the starting point, and selects retired professional ice and snow athletes as primary and secondary school teachers, and the ice and snow physical education curriculum is fully popularized in primary and secondary schools.
Without national health, there will be no overall well-off society. Gou Zhongwen, director of the State Sports General Administration, pointed out that mass sports is a cause of people’s livelihood, which is related to everyone’s physical and mental health and the future of the nation. "We should fully understand the importance and urgency of doing a good job in this work with a highly responsible attitude towards the people, the country and history, put mass sports on the important agenda, and earnestly grasp the reality and achieve results."
The event is held by the people.
This year’s Tianjin National Games will add 19 mass sports events, and the number of mass athletes who only come to Tianjin to participate in the finals is expected to reach more than 8,000. It will be one of the key tasks of mass sports in the new year to give play to the traction and driving role of the National Games and support sports and fitness events around the masses.
The mass base of table tennis in Beijing is very good. The Beijing Table Tennis Association began to select players in mid-March, and the Beijing folk table tennis team, which was formally formed in early April, began its first training in Xiannongtan Gymnasium. Ning Wei, vice chairman of Beijing Table Tennis Association, said, "The selected players cherish the rare opportunity to participate in the National Games and hope to promote the development of table tennis."
The development and growth of social sports organizations are indispensable to the success of the sports events around the masses. Since the Shanghai Citizens’ Games was first held in 2012, the local citizens have responded enthusiastically. "We must change the traditional routine of doing everything, get out of the closed circle, and truly respond to the concerns of the masses by opening the door to do sports." Huang Yongping, director of the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, said.
A variety of activities and events will enable more people to participate in sports, enjoy the joy of competitive sports, and stimulate the enthusiasm of the whole people to participate in physical fitness. Sun Xuecai, director of the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau, said: "The National Games competition is a great lever, through which more people can participate in sports and gain health and happiness."
Fitness becomes a way of life
Nowadays, the elements of sports are "spreading" to all aspects of people’s lives; The masses value the strong positive energy contained in sports.
Gao Shuping, 50, once won the bronze medal in women’s singles in the National Amateur Table Tennis Championships and got the opportunity to participate in the table tennis competition in the National Games this year. She said, "The happiness that table tennis brings me is beyond words. Although I have not become a professional athlete, I have used this strong energy to train my children and train my son to study in Peking University. "
At present, people’s treatment of sports is changing from appreciation to participation, from paying attention to the number of gold medals to their own sports environment. This change is reflected in the sharp increase in the number of marathon applicants, the mutual "likes" of sports social platforms, and the increase in social capital’s interest in the involvement of mass sports events.
Nowadays, more and more enterprises have integrated into all aspects of national fitness. Liu Guoyong, director of the Group Department of the State Sports General Administration, said that in the preliminaries of the mass events of the National Games, different ways were adopted in various places. "Some of them were handed over to the association, while others were open to the market, and whoever did well was handed over."
In this regard, Gou Zhongwen said that guiding all kinds of market players to participate in national fitness can play its role in activity organization, competition development, scientific fitness guidance and personnel training, and support them to provide personalized and diversified services in national fitness. It can also meet the needs of the masses at different levels, with rapid growth and continuous upgrading.