Healthy Heart Run: Empowering People with Disabilities and Promoting Mental Health Awareness

China Daily, March 30, Changsha News On the morning of March 30, under the guidance of the National Center for Mental Health and Mental Hygiene Prevention and Control and the Chinese Mental Health Association, Beijing Shangshan Charity Foundation, Xingyun Culture and Education Charity Foundation, and Shanghai Zijiang Charity Foundation , Tencent Charity Foundation, co-organized by Li Zijian Art Museum, Changsha Pioneer Yanghu Construction Investment Co., Ltd., and hosted by Changsha Luke Sports Culture Development Co., Ltd., the “2024 Hundred Cities Thousands of People Fitness Run Changsha Station” event was held in the beautiful Yanghu Park kicked off with the sign language dance “Don’t Forget the Original Intention”.

On this special day, a special group of hearing-impaired, visually impaired, and physically-impaired disabled friends came to the Changsha “Healthy Heart Run” site to join hands with nearly a hundred runners with disabilities to support the healthy heart running. In addition to challenging Self, tenacious struggle, and altruism to help patients with depression get out of the haze. Because they have been exposed to rain, they are more willing to hold umbrellas for their depressed friends and run for them.

Zuo Xitao, member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Chairman of Changsha Disabled Persons’ Federation, He Haijun, member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Chairman of Changsha Disabled Persons’ Federation, Jiang Tao, Director of Publicity, Culture and Sports Department of Changsha Disabled Persons’ Federation, Hunan Provincial People’s Congress Representative, 2007 “Moving China” Characters Li Li, 2012 London Olympics badminton mixed doubles champion, 2016 Rio Olympics men’s badminton doubles champion Zhang Nan, 2012 London Olympics badminton women’s doubles champion Tian Qing, 2020 Tokyo Olympics synchronized swimming runner-up Sun Wenyan, Changsha City Wang Jie, assistant to the general manager of Hunan Development Group, director and general manager of Pioneer Holdings, Li Zijian, founder and lifelong director of Li Zijian Art Museum, famous oil painter, Shi Jianjun, vice president of Hunan Special Education Secondary Vocational School, Zhang Jingzhi, secretary-general of Xingyun Cultural Education Charity Foundation Other guests attended the opening ceremony.

Different from previous multi-city relays, this fitness run traces its origins to the Yangtze River. Yushu, Lijiang, Yibin, Changsha, Wuhan, Nanchang, Wuhu, Yangzhou, Shanghai – the nine cities along the Yangtze River will start on the same day and be broadcast live simultaneously.

At the branch venue of Yanghu Park, a group of optimistic and enthusiastic wheelchair running team members, represented by Li Li, Hunan Provincial People’s Congress representative and 2007 “Touching China” figure, showed the world the courage of disabled people to fight bravely. They have overcome physical difficulties. Fight the many obstacles and cheer for your physical and mental health.

Teacher Shang Lei, a blind runner who participated in the Healthy Heart Run event for the second time, led 30 visually impaired runners from the Changsha Shata Run Charity Running Group to the Changsha Station of the Healthy Heart Run event, led by 60 accompanying runners. . Teacher Shang Lei said that being associated with the Healthy Heart Running event helped him develop the strength of the running group and realize his desire to run. He is very happy to be able to organize everyone to participate in the Healthy Heart Running event this year. It is hoped that through fitness running activities and publicity on various media platforms, disabled runners can get out of the house and integrate into society like non-disabled runners, and the concept of caring for physical and mental health can be more widely disseminated and known to more people.

Encouraged by Vice Principal Shi of Hunan Provincial Special Education Secondary Vocational School, 30 hearing-impaired students participated in this fitness run. Their bodies were filled with the passion and hope of young people.

In addition, there are Hunan Running Alliance, Xingde Casadi Running Group, Changsha Yuerunning, Changsha Barrier-free Environment Construction Promotion Association, Changsha Spicy Running Group, China Marathon Grand Slam Hunan Branch, Changsha Yuhua District More than ten running groups, including the Heart Flying Disabled People’s Art Troupe, Changsha County Long Distance Running Association, Yanghu Micro Horse Squadron, Changsha Huangxing Running Group, First Division Running Group, and Lake Star Star Running Group, participated in this event, and disabled people joined hands Toward the future.

During the preparation process of the Fitness Run, in order to highlight the characteristics of the integration of people with disabilities, Changsha Luke Sports Culture Development Co., Ltd., the organizer of the Fitness Run, led a professional team to improve and perfect the route of the Fitness Run based on the actual situation; The track environment has been optimized; personalized services have been customized for hearing-impaired, visually impaired and physically handicapped running groups and professional training has been provided for accompanying runners; Healthy Running volunteers have been asked how to guide each running group to run on the prescribed roads. , and provided professional guidance on how to divert the audience around the venue.

During the event, the Changsha branch venue was linked online with the main venue in Shanghai and branch venues in other cities through live broadcast, using practical actions to promote the prevention and treatment of depression.

According to authoritative data, there are more than 95 million people suffering from depression in China, and mental illness has seriously plagued their physical and mental health. The organizer hopes that through the fitness run event, it can respond to the call of “no one can be left behind” for the physical and mental health of the whole people, link up all forces in society, pay attention to mental health, promote the prevention and treatment of depression, and hope that everyone can run a wonderful life. (China Daily Hunan reporter Zou Shuo and Zhu Youfang)

[Editor in charge: Han He]

2024-03-30 06:32:32
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