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Shijiazhuang: “squeeze out” more than 200 stadiums to ignite citizens’ enthusiasm for fitness
Xinhua News Agency, Shijiazhuang, December 30th (Reporters Yan Qilei and Zhang Weihua) It was midwinter, but near the intersection of Tiyu Street and Zhongshan Road in Shijiazhuang City, a newly built and opened basketball court was “steaming”. A group of young people were present The fierce fighting on the stage attracted bursts of applause from time to time.
“I used to go to the basketball hall at my own expense when I wanted to play with my friends. Now that there are many new courts on the street corners, I don’t have to worry about finding a venue anymore,” said basketball enthusiast Li Liangjun.
On a newly opened badminton court at the northeast corner of the intersection of Tangunan Street and Oasis Road in Shijiazhuang City, a group of badminton enthusiasts are competing with each other.
The 11-year-old Zhang Jiayin moved quickly. After finding the right position, she leaned back and quickly swung her racket to counterattack. “My family lives nearby. During the course of playing, I also made many new friends and had a great time together,” Zhang Jiayin said.
In order to continuously meet the growing demands of citizens for sports and fitness, in 2022, Shijiazhuang City will use the demolished and vacated land, vacant land beside streets, park green spaces, urban squares and other corner and idle land in the urban renewal action in 2022 to “see the needles” 209 high-standard ball games venues have been built. This work is also listed as one of Shijiazhuang’s 10 people’s livelihood practical events in 2022.
The reporter learned from the Shijiazhuang Sports Bureau that the 209 newly built and opened high-standard ball sports venues include basketball courts, football fields, badminton courts, table tennis courts, gate courts, etc., and some of them are equipped with lighting facilities. Open at night. The rich variety of new stadiums effectively meets the sports needs of citizens of different age groups, allowing citizens to enjoy the health and happiness brought by sports at their doorstep.
Wu Liyan, deputy director of the Shijiazhuang Sports Bureau, said that how to find a suitable site is one of the main problems faced by the new stadium. For this reason, they set up a special working class and held a symposium for citizen representatives to collect opinions and suggestions. The special work class runs the streets and alleys, mobilizes, searches, surveys, fights, and actively looks for suitable venues. Many corner land and idle land have been utilized one after another, covering an area of nearly 160,000 square meters, and the land use problem has been solved.
The completion and opening of more than 200 ball courts has further ignited the citizens’ enthusiasm for fitness. Many courts have a constant flow of people from morning to night. Citizens have applauded the “squeezed” convenience stadium, and the new stadium also provides convenience for some sports associations to carry out national fitness activities. The relevant person in charge of the Shijiazhuang Basketball Association said that they will use the newly constructed venue resources to actively carry out a series of basketball events and enrich mass sports events.
The site must be built well, and it must be managed well. How to manage and maintain more than 200 high-usage ball courts after they are built and put into use is also a difficult point. To this end, Shijiazhuang City relied on the Municipal Tourism Investment Group to set up a sports culture industry development company, which is specifically responsible for the management and maintenance of the completed ball games venues.
Liu Baochun, general manager of Shijiazhuang Tourism Investment Group Sports Culture Industry Development Co., Ltd., said that the company has formulated the “Ball Game Venue Management and Maintenance Plan”, “Urban Ball Sports Venue Management and Operation Manual”, and posted public signs on each court. The management and protection telephone number was announced to ensure that the problems reported by the citizens were resolved as soon as possible. At the same time, the company will actively explore a professional and intelligent management model to ensure that the site is completed, managed and used well.
