On the afternoon of December 1, the Sha District Gymnasium was crowded, and the 6th Chongqing Shapingba District Games were successfully concluded here.
The event started in April this year and closed on December 1, lasting half a year, with more than 10,000 athletes signing up for the competition, focusing on the achievements made by the whole region in building a strong sports area in recent years, creating a strong atmosphere of national fitness, and achieving the goal of "distinctive characteristics, civilization and splendor, safety and success".
The 6th Shapingba District Games was successfully concluded in the District Gymnasium.
Shapingba District Games is held every four years, with the theme of "chasing dreams and six sports, striving for the sand area", with 20 competitions, divided into six groups: youth group, elderly group, agency group, town street group, open group and disabled group, a total of more than 10,000 athletes from all towns and streets in the district, 124 delegations of various organs, enterprises and institutions, schools and troops stationed in the district participated in the competition.
Compared with the previous District Games, both the competition and the number of participants have reached a record high, and it is the largest, highest standard and largest comprehensive sports event in the history of sports development in Shapingba District. Throughout the city, this is also the largest and most complete session of the comprehensive games in Chongqing's districts and counties.
The focus of the national fitness participation and the holding of the District Games is to mobilize the people of the whole district to participate as much as possible. The relevant person in charge of the District Sports Bureau said.
In terms of project settings, this year's District Games not only includes traditional competitive sports such as football, basketball, track and field, swimming, etc., but also sets up fitness projects that middle-aged and elderly groups are keen on, such as square dance, fishing, Go, and chess. Fashionable sports such as skiing, photoelectric gun shooting, and tennis, which are popular among teenagers, were also included in the competition sequence for the first time.
Coincidentally, lowering the threshold, loosening restrictions, and making it more open are also one of the obvious features of the Sixth Games in the Sand District. In this year's District Games, the threshold of each competition group has been significantly lowered, and most of the competitions have relaxed the qualification restrictions, which also allows more "grassroots players" to show their style in the District Games, more highlighting the openness of the event, and truly building the District Games into a sports event in which everyone in Shapingba participates.
In addition, this year's District Games also showed deep humanistic care, and set up many popular and convenient competitions for special groups.
It is worth mentioning that it is a "touchstone" for testing the achievements of youth sports in Shapingba. This year's District Games fully embodies the concept of the integration of sports and education, and comprehensively reviews and improves the level of youth sports competition through the holding of events.
According to the data, a total of 14 competitions were set up in the youth group of this District Games, covering all ages of primary and secondary schools, attracting 36 primary and secondary school delegations such as Chongqing No. 1 Middle School, Nankai Middle School, Chongqing No. 7 Middle School, and Chongqing Fengmingshan Middle School, with more than 4,000 athletes.
The 6th Shapingba District Games Youth Tennis Competition.
Among the new events of this year's District Games, skiing, photoelectric gun shooting and tennis are very representative. Ice and snow sports are now widely promoted, and photoelectric shooting and tennis events are now also promising.
Taking ice and snow sports as an example, in recent years, Shapingba District has taken ice and snow sports as an important starting point to accelerate the construction of a strong sports area and promote the integration of sports and education. More than 60 schools, including Chongqing University, have jointly built ice and snow sports training bases, carried out various high-level ice and snow events at all levels all year round, and gradually built a scientific and perfect talent training system, laying a solid foundation for the development of ice and snow sports in the whole district and even the city.
In terms of shooting, Shapingba has been deeply cultivated for many years, has a relatively complete competition and training system, and is in the forefront of the city in terms of reserve talent delivery and competition results. In April 2023, Dai Siqi, a male player who was transferred from Shapingba District to the Municipal Shooting Professional Team, won the men's skeet multi-directional championship in one fell swoop, winning the first gold medal for Chongqing players in the national men's skeet multi-directional competition in the past ten years. At present, the Shapingba District Sports Bureau has cooperated with Fengmingshan Middle School to build a professional and standardized shooting training hall for the daily training and competition of the Fengzhong shooting team. In addition, Chongqing No. 15 Middle School, located in Shapingba District, is also carrying out special gun training, and there are 8 primary schools in the district carrying out photoelectric gun training, and more than 500 people in the district have participated in shooting projects all year round.
Tennis is the same, in recent years has been greatly developed, this year's District Games primary school tennis competition, is the first time that Shapingba District will include tennis in the District Games competition, the first time it was held that attracted more than 200 young athletes to sign up for the competition, very popular.
The development of a city's sports industry is often closely related to the city's economic level. At a time when cities and sports are becoming increasingly closely linked, sports are becoming a beautiful "business card" of the city's image.
In recent years, Shapingba has carried out nearly 100 "people's field" into the community, covering basketball, table tennis, yoga, etc., as well as a number of national fitness activities, which are well received and loved by the public.
In recent years, Shapingba has carried out nearly 100 "people's arena" activities into the community.
This year, we held the 6th District Sports Meeting and called on the people of the district to join the ranks of sports and fitness, which is not only conducive to vigorously developing national fitness, cultivating a sports culture atmosphere, and creating the urban impression of Shapingba as a youthful and energetic city, but also allowing more people to see the profound development potential of sports in Shapingba District, cultivating new economic growth points in the direction of 'sports +', and boosting the social and economic development of the city. ”
The relevant person in charge of Shapingba District said that the successful holding of the District Games has added a strong touch to the shaping of the urban image of Shapingba District, and promoted the organic renewal of the city and the vigorous development of national fitness. In the future, we will take this opportunity to continue to build a higher level of public service system for national fitness, accelerate the construction of a strong sports area, and strive to build a "city of youth" that thousands of young people yearn for, so as to gather youth power for the comprehensive construction of a new Shapingba of socialist modernization.