The Hyundai Motor 2023 Guangzhou Huangpu Marathon was held on the 24th, with 20,000 runners starting from the starting point on the bank of Phoenix Lake in the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City.
On 24 December, 20,000 people from all over the world wore "battle suits" and toured the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City (SSGKC) to measure the beauty of Huangpu with their footsteps.
Mr. Cao, 70 years old, runs all over the country every Monday, this time in the "new" city, feeling the wave of innovation;Many parents take their children and run towards the rising sun;There are also several wheelchair runners from the "Disability Inclusion" phalanx, "running" a wonderful life ...... on the track
After a two-year absence, the high-profile Guangzhou Huangpu Marathon made a strong comeback, setting off a boom in all-round action.
At the starting point of the race, Zhao Yuliang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Liu Liang and Han Enhou, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Min Yonggang, foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, and Ye Siyu, academician of the Canadian National Academy of Engineering, fired the starting gun in their hands, and 20,000 runners ushered in a new urban marathon experience, witnessing the development achievements of SSGKC in the past 13 years.
This year's "Yellow Horse" event has a marathon (42195 km), half marathon (210975 km) and Happy Run (5 km) in three categories, with a direct registration channel for elite runners and a "Record Breaking Award for Domestic Runners".
In the end, the men's full course Tadesse Mamo Temechachu, the women's full course Tigist Bikira Deme, the men's half group Zhou Youfa, and the women's half group Yin Xiaoyu won the championships in each group respectively. The performance of domestic players Cen Wanjiang and Yin Shunjin was very eye-catching, and they broke the record of Chinese players in the competition with gunshots of 2 hours, 14 minutes and 25 seconds and 2 hours 14 minutes 47 seconds respectively. Li Dan finished fifth in the women's marathon with a time of 2 hours, 35 minutes and 37 seconds, which also broke the record of Chinese runners in the race.
The city of vitality runs towards happiness.
Although the temperature in the early morning is only 6 degrees Celsius, the atmosphere on the track is lively and everyone has enthusiasm on their faces, which is the spirit of a sporting event. Han Enhou, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Guangdong Institute of Corrosion Technology and Technological Innovation, came to the "Yellow Horse" site for the first time, and in his opinion, the sports boom brought by the marathon is synchronized with the rapid development of the city's economy and society.
The phrase "go to Huangpu and run to happiness" attracted tens of thousands of people from all over the world to gather, highlighting the vitality of Huangpu.
"Yellow Horse" is the first district-level full marathon in Guangzhou. As a gold medal event certified by the Chinese Athletics Association, the "Yellow Horse" has become a well-known urban marathon event in the country and even in the world. Since its inception in 2017, "Yellow Horse" has created a professional and international sports feast for the majority of participants with high-standard event execution, high-quality event services and distinctive Huangpu cultural characteristics, and has successively won the honorary titles of "2017 China Marathon Bronze Medal Event", "2018 China Marathon Silver Medal Event", "2019 China Marathon Gold Medal Event", "2020 World Athletics Federation Label Event" and "2021 World Athletics Federation Elite Label Event", and achieved "five consecutive jumps in five years" , won unanimous praise from runners.
The Yellow Horse is the final race of the marathon season every year, and for me, it's also a final race, so I have to come and participate. A week ago, Cen Wanjiang from Guizhou just finished the 2023 Fuzhou Marathon and immediately transferred to Guangzhou to participate in the "Yellow Horse", and he has run more than 20 marathons this year.
In the closing race, Cen Wanjiang also broke the record of the "Yellow Horse" domestic runners, winning the fourth place in the men's marathon (the first place in domestic runners) with a time of 2 hours, 14 minutes and 25 seconds.
The previous "Yellow Horses" have gathered many high-level players in China. In order to motivate high-level runners to create better results, this year's "Yellow Horse" has specially set up a direct registration channel for elite runners, and set up a "Breaking the Record Award for Domestic Runners", so that many domestic high-level runners will compete in the field.
This year's "Yellow Horse" is not only a competition, but also a cultural feast for the whole city.
There are more than 80 track atmosphere points throughout the race to cheer for the runners. Wonderful cultural performances have become a beautiful landscape. Huangpu has built 8 "intangible cultural heritage gas stations", with the theme of "Energetic Huangpu Dancing Youth", bringing wonderful cultural performances with Huangpu characteristics, such as lion dance, dragon dance, martial arts performance, cheerleading, etc., to cheer for the contestants and let them feel the cultural vitality of the city.
A green city with zero carbon.
One of the highlights of this year's "Yellow Horse" is "green and zero carbon".
Hyundai Motor has invested in the world's leading hydrogen energy technology, allowing clean energy to run in the land of Huangpu, which has become a beautiful scenery of this event.
The Nexo, the world's No. 1 hydrogen fuel cell SUV in cumulative sales, will be used as a timed vehicleThe hydrogen fuel cell buses and hydrogen fuel cell logistics vehicles developed by Hyundai Motor will provide convenient travel for relevant personnel and will also be responsible for transporting the luggage of the participants.
The environmental protection concept of hydrogen energy technology is integrated into this marathon to create a unique "green and zero-carbon yellow horse".
In fact, Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District are not only national demonstration zones for comprehensive utilization of new energy, but also demonstration zones for the commercial operation of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in Guangdong Province. In recent years, Huangpu has introduced industrial policies such as "10 Hydrogen Energy Measures" to accelerate the construction of the entire hydrogen energy industry chain.
In January 2021, Hyundai Motor established the Group's first overseas hydrogen fuel cell production and sales base, "htwo Guangzhou", in Huangpu District, Guangzhou, to actively participate in the demonstration operation of fuel cell vehicles mainly commercial vehicles, and provide world-leading hydrogen fuel cell systems for China's hydrogen fuel cell passenger vehicles, ships, rail transit, power generation and other fields.
Guided by the concept of green and low-carbon development, htwo Guangzhou has built a manufacturing system that integrates safety, environmental protection and intelligence. As the largest foreign-funded project in China's domestic hydrogen energy industry, the project has been listed as the sixth batch of major foreign-funded projects and key projects in Guangdong Province by the state.
At present, Huangpu has built 11 hydrogen refueling stations and settled in 43 upstream and downstream enterprises and institutions of hydrogen energy, forming rich application scenarios such as urban public transportation and logistics transportation.
On 22 December, the first batch of hydrogen logistics vehicles with localized production of core components in Huangpu was launched in SSGKC, and immediately after that, it was put into use at the "Yellow Horse" venue to transport competition materials and athletes' luggage. Compared with traditional logistics vehicles, hydrogen energy logistics vehicles can not only achieve zero carbon emissions, but also have sufficient power, fast response, and more stable driving, using clean green energy to speed up the "yellow horse".
Sports + technology" elements, continue to light up the green "yellow horse".
In order to optimize the collar process and improve the efficiency of check-in, this event adopts the "palm pulse" recognition technology, which is mainly used for the collar of the "Yellow Horse" expo players and the "check-in of the players" on the race day, which can effectively eliminate violations such as substitute running, rubbing running, and number bib fraud, and ensure the fairness and justice of the competition.
The city of innovation witnesses the growth of the "city".
This year's "Yellow Horse" staged a fusion and interaction of professional events and innovation.
Not only did Academician Ye Siyu, an "old friend", lead a phalanx of more than 50 people to participate in the race, but also 20,000 runners ran to the innovation landmarks of SSGKC to face the new track and feel the pulse of innovation in this "city of the future".
The new track witnesses the new style of the "new city". SSGKC, a beautiful national-level bilateral cooperation city, has once again become the focus of attention of marathon enthusiasts around the world.
Starting from Phoenix Lake, the "Yellow Horse" runners ran on the Innovation Avenue in SSGKC. This avenue, which gathers more than 40 biopharmaceutical industry projects, 80 upstream and downstream enterprises in the integrated circuit industry, and the super industrial chain of intelligent networking and new energy vehicles, is becoming a link to stimulate the innovation vitality of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
SSGKC is an important pole in Guangzhou's urban development pattern of "One Belt, One Axis, Three Cores and Four Poles", and it is also the North Pole of Guangzhou's dynamic innovation axis.
Focusing on the whole chain of knowledge production, dissemination, creation, protection and application, SSGKC has built an urban spatial layout of "one core, two hearts and multiple parks", and accelerated the cultivation and expansion of three 100-billion-level industrial clusters such as biomedicine, integrated circuits and new energy vehicles, with the leading projects of 100 industries such as BeiGene Biologics, InnoCare and Yuexin Semiconductor, to build an industrialization highland with the strongest nanotechnology capabilities in China and the highest place for intellectual property protection and application, leading Guangdong's transformation and upgrading from an industrial economy to a "knowledge-based economy".
Runners traveled all the way to appreciate the "future industries" of SSGKC.
The 5G filter, which breaks through the key core technology, was born in China's Nano Valley next to the "Yellow Horse" track. This innovation is mainly used in the production of RF front-end filters for 5G mobile phones, realizing China's independent control of RF filter chips. The project was put into use in 2020, and it took only 10 months from the start of the flat ground to the operation of the production line, and the "5G" speed of the implementation of science and technology innovation projects in SSGKC has been achieved.
The knowledge economy is the trend of innovation. SSGKC is named after knowledge, and the anchor goal is to build a national knowledge hub with global impact.
From the perspective of industrial density and intellectual concentration, SSGKC ushered in the "explosion" of the knowledge economy in the shortest time: it took the lead in increasing the intensity of R&D investment to more than 6% in the city. It is home to more than 100 intellectual property institutions such as the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court, the Guangdong Center of the Examination Association, and the China (Guangdong) Intellectual Property Protection Center, making it the area with the highest concentration of intellectual property elements in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
On both sides of the track, there are research institutes of colleges and universities. With Innovation Avenue as the axis, 12 research institutes, including the Guangzhou Innovation Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, the Huangpu Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Pearl River Delta Research Institute of Tsinghua University, and the Huangpu Institute of Green Advanced Materials Technology of South China University of Technology, have been established in SSGKC.
Focusing on the "Belt and Road" initiative, scientific and technological innovation, intellectual property rights, foreign economic development and other major strategic needs, these institutions of higher learning have successively introduced academicians and other high-level talent teams to jointly build major national, provincial and municipal scientific research platforms, repeatedly break through key areas of core technologies, and create a "star of the Bay Area" in the core scientific and technological fields of industry-education integration and talent gathering.
As a sports carnival with global participation, the Whampoa Marathon has long been more than just a race, but also a connection, an attitude, and a symbol of urban culture.
Since the foundation stone was laid in 2010, SSGKC has grown from a rural suburb to a science and technology innovation cityFrom a blank sheet of paper to a city card;From the Wasteland to the City of the Future;With a new look and a new attitude, we will continue to show the world a "new attitude".
Written by: Liu Shan.
Photo: Dai Wuyan in the Wild Era.