The Nanjing Main Venue of 2023 Jiangsu "National Fitness Day" and the 7th Nanjing Zhenjiang Yangzhou National Fitness Activity were launched on Tuesday at Nanjing Jindi Sports Park. August 8th marks the 15th "National Fitness Day" in China and also the first "Sports Promotion Week" in China.
This event witnessed the alternating performances of cheerleading, street dance, Tai Chi, square dance, and martial arts exhibitions. At the same time, there are fifteen sports experience areas including archery, darts, frisbee, pitcher throwing, paddleboard, and airplane model.
Participants include both elderly people in their seventies and eighties, as well as cute children of six and seven years old. Shen Yang, a world chess champion, and Li Shanshan,a national basketball champion, personally took the field and taught everyone their sports skills.
“I don't think basketball necessarily needs to achieve good results, but it is necessary to make them feel the power of a team from a young age. In the future, as coaches, we hope that basketball can be promoted in school to help children who love sports thrive”, Li Shanshan, National Basketball Champion, said.
The event is also equipped with a national physical fitness monitoring vehicle, which provides free physical fitness monitoring for citizens and provides scientific exercise prescriptions. The three player basketball tournament, land curling challenge, and youth tennis tournament got off to a fierce competition. Many of the participants in land curling are disabled.
“I hope people with disabilities can move together like us, embrace life, and feel happy together”, Yu Jisong, a member of the Jiangsu Yangzhou Wheelchair Curling Team, said.
As of the end of 2022, 317.9 thousand sports venues have been built in Jiangsu, with an area of 343 million square meters. The per capita sports venue area in the province has reached 4.03 square meters, forming a "10-minute sports and fitness circle" in urban communities, greatly improving the convenience of people's fitness.
“We have carefully planned our fitness menu for the people of the province. There are over 500 events and over 50 events organized by sports departments and social organizations throughout the province. Our venues offer many discounts on service. Today, there are 292 public sports venues in the province that are open to the people for free. We have also launched many promotional activities based on our actual situation. For example, Suzhou will issue sports consumption vouchers every day from 10am this morning until the end of the month. Yangzhou, Taizhou, and Nanjing will launch sports night markets, sports training institutions, and sports tourism attractions. We hope that fitness enthusiasts can take this opportunity to participate in national fitness”, Li Fang, Director of the Group Department of Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau, said.
