The provincial games are scheduled to be compressed and the later games will be adjusted according to the needs of epidemic prevention and control Guangdong Provincial People’s Government Portal

On the morning of the 20th, the inaugural meeting of the Organizing Committee and Disciplinary Inspection Committee of the 16th Guangdong Games was held in Qingyuan. It is reported that the time of the 16th Provincial Games and the 9th Provincial Para Games will be adjusted.

It is reported that in order to cooperate with the normalization of the current epidemic prevention and control, the opening and closing ceremonies of the current Provincial Games are planned to be shortened from 13 days to 10 days, and the total number of participants will be controlled at around 6,000. According to the previous plan, the current Provincial Games will open on November 5 this year and close on November 18. The conference will last for 13 days. Qingyuan will welcome 21,000 athletes. The meeting pointed out that according to the prevention and control situation of the new crown epidemic in our province and the Qingyuan competition area, the organizing committee recently made corresponding adjustments to the competition in the Qingyuan competition area, including the postponement of the dragon and lion competition originally scheduled from July 15th to 17th; The competition schedule will also be dynamically adjusted according to the epidemic prevention and control situation.

It is reported that the current Provincial Games includes 41 major sports and 963 minor events in the competitive sports group, and 128 minor events in 10 major sports in the mass sports group. About 28,000 athletes, coaches, team leaders and staff from 21 prefecture-level delegations will participate in the current Provincial Games.