The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China stated: “Extensively carry out national fitness activities, strengthen youth sports work, promote the all-round development of mass sports and competitive sports, and accelerate the construction of a sports power.” The foundation of a sports power lies in mass sports. In recent years, with the in-depth development of national fitness, the cause of mass sports has continued to reach new levels, and new trends such as the combination of online and offline, participation of the whole society, multi-event coverage, and multi-level linkage have emerged in community sports meetings, building a community for the masses. arena.
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A few days ago, Shanghai badminton enthusiast Ye Huixia was extremely busy. In 2022, the Shanghai Community Health Games will hold a badminton match. She and her partner prepared carefully and won the mixed doubles championship as they wished. The Shanghai Community Health Games was founded by the Municipal Sports Bureau in 2021. This year, with reference to the frequency of competitions held by each street and town, 8 sports such as three-person basketball, table tennis, badminton, and Tai Chi, which have a high degree of public participation, were selected, combined with street community events Activities, hold municipal competitions.
The community sports meeting is a mass sports event organized and carried out based on the sports activities loved by the community. Around 2000, street communities in some places held sporadically. In recent years, this form of national fitness has developed vigorously, with new trends such as the combination of online and offline, participation of the whole society, multi-item coverage, and multi-level linkage. Nowadays, the community games are booming, building an arena around the masses for the masses. Through this “small stage”, issues of public concern such as “where to go for fitness” and “how to exercise scientifically” were solved one by one, and the “big goal” of promoting the high-quality development of national fitness was achieved.
A few days ago, the first “National Fitness My Action·National Community Games” announced the official logo. This is a large-scale community sports event led by the State Sports General Administration and undertaken by various provinces. It is expected to hold more than 150 events and nearly 10,000 events, attracting more than 500,000 fans. Ding Dong, director of the Mass Sports Department of the State Sports General Administration, believes that community games at all levels and with full coverage have strengthened the grassroots service supply for national fitness, aiming to develop people-centered sports and give the masses a greater sense of gain.
Activities in various forms
crowd having fun
During the slack season and after dinner, Tai Chi is a common hobby of the people in Liujiadian Town, Pinggu District, Beijing. This is due to the “China · Beijing Yaji Mountain Tai Chi Cultural Festival” that has been held for three times so far. Driven by this community sports activity, the town opened a “Tai Chi Classroom” and held a series of lectures to encourage more residents to understand and participate in Tai Chi.
Sports are becoming a way of life, and the public’s fitness needs are increasingly diverse. In response to the rapidly growing demand for “events around you”, the “Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of National Fitness Facilities and Development of Mass Sports” issued in 2020 proposes to enrich community sports events.
Community sports games at all levels in various places began to expand the form of activities and project settings. In Kunming, Yunnan, the 5th Spring City Sports Festival Community Games used orienteering to string up red landmarks, allowing participants to search for red marks and experience history and culture while exercising; in Xunyang District, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, a land ice The kettlebell competition attracted 12 teams to participate, demonstrating the enthusiasm for ice and snow sports in the southern region; in Xiamen, Fujian, the city held the first community sports meeting, with innovative and rich forms of activities such as land curling, fixed-point shooting and spinning, which drove the masses to experience sports fun…
Many places also try to combine the competition with the production and life of the masses. This autumn, in Tengzhou City, Zaozhuang, Shandong Province, more than 300 villagers participated in the “Jujube Sports Neighborhood Distance” sports meeting in Dazong Village. To celebrate the harvest, interesting events such as dragon boat races and “Big Harvest” were specially set up. According to the relevant person in charge of the Zaozhuang Sports Bureau, the villagers have demonstrated the skills they have acquired in production and life, which has improved their fitness awareness and is also conducive to creating a civilized rural atmosphere.
“We encourage and support grassroots communities in urban and rural areas to organize and carry out mass sports events with their own characteristics and in various forms.” Ding Dong said that community sports games focus on grassroots, around, diversity, and characteristics. Events around the crowd can run throughout the year.”
All parties involved
Build a fitness platform
A few days ago, in the Leisure Sports Park of Neijiang High-tech Zone in Sichuan, a unique community sports meeting ignited the enthusiasm of the participants. There are not only competitions in sports such as shuttlecock kicking and basketball shooting, but also a check-in link for completing the project and receiving small gifts. The sports meeting was hosted by the Neijiang branch of the Sichuan Provincial Sports Lottery Center, using the community as a carrier to help the whole people exercise.
It is understood that a series of community games directed by the China Sports Lottery Center will be held in many places this year, and according to the local conditions, a combination of online and offline forms will be adopted. All parties work together to build a fitness platform, which has become a new feature of community games in recent years.
Local sports departments connect resources from all parties and build service platforms, which play a key role in promoting mass sports development. The community games service platform created by Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau and financial institutions has been officially launched recently. The platform is divided into three major sections: the government end, the operation end, and the user end. District and county sports departments can analyze the effect of activities through platform data and optimize organization plans; sports enthusiasts can learn about the holding of sports games on the platform and receive online guidance from social sports instructors.
“Community is the key link to get through the ‘last mile’ of national fitness.” Xiong Wei, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau, said that the platform will serve the organization, development and promotion of community games related to the province, and provide opportunities for urban and rural communities to participate nearby Provide convenience for fitness events.
Taking the community sports meeting as the starting point, the concept of national fitness goes deep into the grassroots and integrates into the lives of the people. “We hope to guide all localities to actively and extensively carry out sports activities around the masses, and give full play to the positive role of community sports events in promoting public health, enhancing neighborhood exchanges, and enhancing community identity,” Ding Dong said. With the guidance and support of the government , Form a joint force with multiple parties, and the vitality of community sports will be further stimulated.
There are more and more participants in community sports, and some good practices and new experiences have been explored to more effectively promote the popularization of national fitness. “By building a community sports event platform, we have identified the fitness needs of the masses, increased the supply of grassroots services such as venue facilities, event activities, and scientific guidance, and promoted the construction of a higher level of public fitness services for all The system is of great significance,” Ding Dong said.
Open fusion space
create more value
This year, folk events such as “Village BA” let more people see the vast space of mass sports and feel the rapid development and changes of the countryside. In recent years, village-level individual sports events have been held in various places, and many social organizations have also participated in them.
In fact, in recent years, many places have been exploring and innovating the form of “sports +” to help the whole people exercise and promote rural revitalization, and also make the characteristics of community sports games more and more distinctive.
In Mingxi County, Fujian Province, the “Beautiful Countryside Healthy Run” activity has continued to innovate in practice for five consecutive years. Combining with industrial development and relying on local superior resources, an agricultural product display area was added on the site to take advantage of the opportunity to promote the local agricultural product brand, “Sports +” The economic value of this emerges.
With the help of the community games platform, exploring the development form of “sports +” will also further excavate and highlight the comprehensive social value of sports.
In Yangzhou, Jiangsu, the Luyangxinyuan Community Games attracted many families to participate. While competing in sports, the sports meeting also specially set up a health measurement area and a sports consumption area to build a comprehensive platform for sports benefiting the people, scientific fitness, and harmonious development of the community.
The Shanghai Community Health Games advocates the linkage between sports and community governance, so that people’s affection for the community will be further enhanced, and people’s awareness of the functions of sports will be enhanced. At the sports meeting, there are many sports events suitable for the community and corridors, creating more fitness opportunities for residents. The holding of events also drives community self-government and self-care, bringing the fitness environment and community environment to a higher level.
Ding Dong said: “We hope to make good use of the ‘leverage’ function of the community sports meeting to leverage the docking and interaction between sports organizations and fitness masses, drive more social resources to participate, and promote the realization of a vivid ‘government-led, social organization-sponsored, and whole-society participation'” In the end, sports will build the foundation for people’s health and empower economic and social development.”
“People’s Daily” (Version 14, December 30, 2022)
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