Original title: To revitalize the micro space, Hangzhou is actively building a 10-minute fitness circle
Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, September 20th
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhu Han Xia Liang
Beside the waterfront, on the roof, under the flyover… In Hangzhou, the “Asian Games City”, a number of sports venues are “embedded” in the life circle of citizens, and the “surplus materials” of urban space are becoming the “golden corners of silver” for national fitness. side”.
On the east bank of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, on a waterfront greenway shaded by greenery, citizens in twos and threes, holding basketballs, walked into the Gongfu Stadium, No. 7 of the Genshan Canal.
Before February this year, it was still an abandoned hardening site. Now, it is a sports park covering 4 standard basketball halves, table tennis tables, and fitness equipment. Since February, more than 14,000 people have exercised here.
“The environment here is very good. I come to exercise two or three times a week.” Zhou Zhongyue, a Hangzhou citizen who lives in a nearby community, said that in the stadium next to his home, each of them has 4 hours of free exercise time every day. “When I played with my teammates, my son who was in elementary school would also learn to dribble on the sidelines.”
There are also a number of sports venues that quietly appeared under bridges, roofs, roundabouts and other venues that were originally idle and abandoned.
Guashan Future Community has built two basketball courts and a tennis court on the roof of the six-story building. Shuimei Park cleverly “hides” the sports ground in the park above the water purification plant. Qianjiang Century City Sports Park is 20 meters away. Five plastic sports venues, such as basketball courts and badminton courts, have been built under the high-speed railway bridge. Jiande Yang’an Sports and Fitness Center has built an outdoor gym under the Xin’an River Bridge that can meet the daily fitness and entertainment needs of 600 people…
According to the data, up to now, on the basis of fully soliciting public opinions, Hangzhou has completed the construction of 1,440 venues in 7 categories, including “three big balls”, “three small balls” and gateball, with a total of 467,000 square meters. These venues will take the public’s sense of acquisition as a measurement standard and goal pursuit, and carry out “low-free opening”. Before the end of 2022, Hangzhou will also add 287 embedded sports facilities, totaling 125,000 square meters.
At present, Hangzhou is accelerating the digital empowerment of the construction of embedded sports facilities, and the built-in sports facilities are gradually being integrated into the “Asian Games Venues Online” platform for unified management to provide citizens with more accurate inquiry and reservation services.
According to the “Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of Embedded Stadium Facilities in Hangzhou (2022-2024)”, Hangzhou will allocate more than 16% of the new stadium area for the construction of embedded stadium facilities. By 2024, the city’s per capita sports The venue covers an area of 2.7 square meters, forming a “10-minute fitness circle”.
