Xinhua News Agency, Xi'an, April 25 (Reporters Yao Youming and Wang Hengzhi) The Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics are gradually fading away, but the enthusiasm for national fitness inspired by the Winter Olympics has not diminished at all. Whether online or offline, people take steps in their own way, and fitness has increasingly become a new fashion in life.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country's national fitness industry has experienced rapid development. In the ten-year time dimension, national fitness has become an important part of the construction of "Healthy China" as a national strategy. A healthy China cannot be separated from sports. The charm of sports is also influencing more and more people to go to the sports field, setting off fitness crazes again and again.
Data map: Shijiazhuang is building a sports ecosystem around the masses. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Luo Xuefeng
National fitness ushered in a good era
In the Sports Center of Shanyang County, Shaanxi Province, located in the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains, even at midnight, members of the Shanyang County Badminton Association were still enthusiastically at the center. Playing ball in the ball training hall.
Li Anmin, head of the Shanyang Badminton Association, said that when the badminton association was established in the county in 2009, there were only more than 30 members. In 2013, after the Shanyang County Sports Center was completed, they had a venue for activities.
"I only need to bear the water and electricity bills and a small amount of rent to encourage members to exercise here every day. Now the association has 139 members alone." Li Anmin said, "We can play until about 11 o'clock every night , there were nearly a hundred people playing in the outdoor field of the sports center stadium in the morning. The badminton atmosphere in the county is very strong now! "
On March 17, 2021, football enthusiasts played football in Dongcheng National Fitness Sports Park, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Lei
Shanyang County Opening sports venues to the society to drive more people to participate in sports is just a microcosm of the development of national fitness in our country. In October 2016, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the " "Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline ", proposing to put people's health as the center and plan a future blueprint for further promoting the Healthy China strategic theme of "co-construction and sharing, universal health".
School sports are also showing a good trend. The "2018 National Compulsory Education Quality Monitoring-Sports and Health Monitoring Results Report" shows that from 2016 to 2018, the physical health level of primary and secondary school students across the country has improved year by year, and their physical fitness is also developing in a good direction.
National Fitness is ushering in a better future.
The changed landscape of ice and snow sports
During the process of Beijing's bid to host the Winter Olympics , our country made a commitment to "drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports." From Beijing's successful bid for the Winter Olympics in 2015 to October 2021, the number of people participating in ice and snow sports across the country reached 346 million, and the resident participation rate reached 24.56%. What you say must be done, and what you do must bear fruit. Before the Beijing Winter Olympics, our country had fulfilled its commitments to the international community.
Data map: Tourists ski at the Yunshang Grassland Ski Resort in Shanchuan Township, Anji County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Weng Xinyang
In the past ten years, the "seeds" of ice and snow sports have been sown across our country. my country's first Winter Olympics gold medalist Yang Yang founded the Feiyang Ice Sports Center in Shanghai, casting stones for the "expansion of ice and snow sports southward, westward and eastward"; Tan Anqi, a former member of the national women's ice hockey team, retired in 2011 Later, she went to Hong Kong to coach. In 2016, she led the Hong Kong women's ice hockey team composed of amateur players to stand on the stage of the Winter Games for the first time.
In the 14th Winter Games, an amateur athlete named Zhang Qing participated in the alpine skiing women's giant slalom competition and left a deep impression on people.
“Until I was a graduate student, I was almost ‘sports-illiterate’. I accidentally set foot on the snow track, which made me fall in love with this sport.” Zhang Qing said, “(This sport) is very important to my work. It also helps a lot with life.”
html On February 20, a child practiced skiing at Jizhou International Ski Resort in Tianjin. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Zishuo The "2020 China Ski Industry White Paper" shows that the number of ski resorts in my country has increased from 348 at the end of 2012 to 715 at the end of 2020.
International Olympic Committee President Bach believes that China's greatest contribution to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is to achieve the goal of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports."
"Even if only a small part of the 300 million people decide to become professional ice and snow sports practitioners, global ice and snow sports will usher in a new development pattern in the future." He said.
html On April 16, the China Ice and Snow Night event "Ice and Snow for the Future and Glory Restart" was held in Beijing. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Song YanhuaLet’s look towards the future together
In the past ten years, mass sports events have entered the National Games, and “115-minute fitness circles” have been built in full swing everywhere. These have become the basis for the rapid development of national fitness. Milestone events.
If sports are strong, China will be strong. From the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, clearly stated the goal of "extensively carrying out national fitness activities and accelerating the construction of a sports power" to the " Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China and the Outline of Long-term Goals for 2035" " proposed that by 2035, we will build a sports power and a healthy China. Sports have become a landmark cause of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
From the perspective of national fitness, it is the next step to resolve the contradiction between the supply of sports services and the people's growing personalized and diversified needs, and to reduce the imbalance and insufficient development of national fitness infrastructure in different regions. direction. Promoting the construction of a higher-level national fitness public service system, extensively carrying out national fitness events and exploring the establishment of new models of sports to promote health have become key paths to better promote the development of national fitness.
On April 17, 2021, the gun fired at the Xi'an Marathon. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Yibo
Last year, the State Council issued the "National Fitness Plan (2021-2025)", which proposed five-year goals and eight aspects to promote the development of national fitness to a higher level and better meet the fitness and health needs of the people. main tasks.
Cao Keqiang, a professor of at Shanghai Institute of Sport, said that this plan is based on the people's immediate needs, whether it is in terms of venue facilities, events, fitness organizations, or scientific construction guidance, and is people-centered and based on the needs of the people. as a center.
In the past ten years, national fitness has made sports "a sport for you and me" and a lifestyle that more and more people are accustomed to.
In the next ten years, national fitness will surely play an even more important role in 's journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
Editors: Liu Yang, Hu Jiali, Zhou Xin, Zhou Zhengqian (internship)
