Jincheng Observation
html On August 22, Chengdu held a mobilization meeting for the construction of a world-famous event city and the "three major events", marking that Chengdu's construction of a world-famous event city has officially entered the fast lane. In the next few years, the "three major events" of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, the 2022 World Table Tennis Championships, the 2025 World Games and dozens of major international events will be launched in Chengdu. Tianfu Olympic Sports City, Dong'an Lake A large number of modern sports venues such as Sports Park and Phoenix Mountain Sports Park will be built successively, and the national fitness event system based on greenway events will gradually be improved.On the basis of building a world-famous city for events, Chengdu has put forward a strategy that combines "seeking competition" and "seeking the city" - "seeking competition" is the starting point and the method, and "seeking the city" is the goal and the result. According to the relevant person in charge of Chengdu, co-prosperity and symbiosis between hosting sports events and promoting the city's sustainable development has become an inevitable choice for Chengdu to become a world-famous event city.
Why should we build a world famous event city?
Improve the comprehensive strength of the city
In 2018, Chengdu proposed to build "three cities and three capitals", and building a world-famous event city is one of the "three cities".
"Mousai" means "Mucheng". According to the relevant person in charge of Chengdu, using the event function to link global high-end element resources and seize key nodes of the world city network will help Chengdu fully demonstrate its international city image on the world city stage and accelerate its advancement into the ranks of the world's advanced cities. .
Sports, especially professional sports, are a product of the rapid development of urbanization. In developed countries in Europe and the United States, the sports industry has long been one of the ten pillar industries and an important part of the national economy.
At the same time, sports are of great help in shaping the city's image. For example, Wimbledon, a small town in southwest London, is world-famous for the Wimbledon tournament. Moreover, the unique role of sports in foreign exchanges is difficult to replace by any other industry. Building a world-famous event city with high standards will enable Chengdu to have more common languages in dialogue with other international metropolises around the world, which is of great significance to the construction of Chengdu as an "external exchange center".
Since 2017, Chengdu has hosted 53 high-level international sports events, creating a number of independent IP events such as the Chengdu Marathon, the "Belt and Road" series, and the "Panda Cup" International Youth Football Championship. Only the revenue from sports competitions and performances One item totaled 564 million yuan, and it has gradually entered the fast lane of economic development of events.
In the long run, the "event city" is not only the "event economy", but also reflects the city's sports development level and mass base, embodies the city's ability to plan and grasp industrial integration of public spaces, and tests the city's public security, transportation, The public service capabilities coordinated by multiple departments such as communications and environmental protection spread the city's unique regional culture and humanistic customs, and represent the city's overall economic level and comprehensive strength. How does
build a world-famous event city?
Aiming at major international events
html On August 18, at the closing ceremony of the 18th WPFG, the theme song "Joy and Glory" sounded again, and the WPFG flag was handed over to officials from the Rotterdam Fire Department, the next organizer, the Netherlands. The successful hosting of the World Police Games will undoubtedly provide an opportunity to further enhance Chengdu's internationalization process and improve Chengdu's ability to participate in global competition.From the successfully held World Police Games to the upcoming Universiade and World Games, international events have brought a lot of gains to Chengdu - the latest issue of global event influence released by Sportcal, the world's leading sports market intelligence service provider (GSI) countries (regions) and cities list, Chengdu jumped from 89th to 28th.
reporters learned from the meeting that in order to promote the construction of a world-famous event city, Chengdu has determined eight major action plans. “In the next three to five years, the level of professional sports venues and national fitness facilities in Chengdu will be greatly improved, and ordinary people will have more opportunities to watch games and national fitness opportunities.This sentence from the relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Sports Bureau is supported by the "Chengdu Sports Industry Revitalization and Development Plan (2020-2025)": By 2025, Chengdu will introduce more than 20 international brand events, including the Intercontinental More than 50% of events are championship-level or above; and it is actively bidding for and holding global and intercontinental large-scale sports exhibitions and high-level sports academic exchange activities.
In addition to introducing high-level events, Chengdu will also vigorously cultivate independent event brands. It is expected that by 2025. By 2035, Chengdu will cultivate more than 10 independent brand events with international influence. In addition, Chengdu will also implement the professional sports prosperity and revitalization project, the leisure sports industry development project, and the sports talent training project, striving to build Chengdu into a sports center by 2035. How can a world-famous city with leading venues, internationally renowned sports events, a highly developed sports industry, global sports resources, and popular sports and fitness events successfully run the "three major events"?
Combine "race planning" and "city planning".
“To host an event is to host a city. "The relevant person in charge of Chengdu said that improving the city's service capabilities is the basic support for successfully hosting large-scale sports events. Combined with the "three major events" to be held next, Chengdu will actively promote the improvement of urban infrastructure and the improvement of the city's functional form and image, and improve Event hosting capacity and urban service level.
Currently, Chengdu is building a number of professional sports venues that can adapt to professional events, including the Phoenix Mountain Sports Park, Dong'an Lake Sports Park, and high-tech sports centers in various districts and counties. The sports center is under construction.
Longquanyi District Party Committee Secretary He Xun revealed at the mobilization meeting that at present, the main body of the main gymnasium of Dong'an Lake Sports Park has been completed, the small arena has been capped, and the pile foundation construction of the main stadium and the earthwork of the swimming and diving hall have been completed. It is basically completed. “It is planned that all entities will be capped by the end of November 2019, and acceptance will be completed before the end of February 2021 and put into trial operation. "
With Dong'an Lake, Phoenix Mountain, and Universiade Village as nodes, and with the "Triple Five Areas" as the focus, Chengdu will also implement a comprehensive transformation of the landscape, build landmark buildings such as Chengdu Dongan Lake Sports Park, and create an international event image landscape. Highlighting the unique charm of a world-famous tourist city.
“Showing Chengdu’s soft power through international competitions also forced the construction of sports venues and national fitness venues, which ultimately benefited the people. "The relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Municipal Sports Bureau said that Chengdu will further improve the layout of major sports facilities in the city in accordance with the spatial layout of urban development of "eastward expansion, southern expansion, west control, north reform, and middle excellence". By 2025, more than 5 sports facilities will be cultivated. Sports industry demonstration base, cultivate more than 10 sports and leisure characteristic towns, and build more than 50 sports service complexes
"Holding large-scale events well is a systematic project. "The relevant person in charge of Chengdu said that Chengdu will also carry out strategic research on the event, and integrate more social resources and social forces with an open attitude to participate extensively. (Reporters Lei Jie, Cheng Wenwen)
(Editors: Li Qiangqiang, Gao Hongxia)
