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Red Net News on December 2 (Reporter Luo Xueyao) On December 1, the 2018 National Youth Baseball Open (Changsha Division) sub-station competition started at the Qile Laodaohe Baseball Stadium in Kaifu District, Changsha City. In the competition that day, the Changsha local representative team Yuhua District Maple Hill Midland Primary School made a blockbuster success, beating the crowd and successfully winning the first and second place in the softball and softball group.
This competition is the highest level and largest youth baseball and softball event held in Hunan so far. The competition is divided into 6 groups including T-ball group, Coach Pitch group, and soft baseball group. There are 43 participating teams and more than 600 players.
Baseball and softball is an international sport, most popular in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China and other regions. Because it can be participated by men, women, old and young, tall and short, fat and thin, and the rules of the game are complex but full of fun, it has attracted the above-mentioned people. The extensive participation of local people has become an important carrier of youth sports education. Baseball and softball were introduced to China by Chinese students studying in the United States and Japan in the late Qing Dynasty. It has a history of more than 110 years. As early as 1903, when the young Mr. Huang Xing was teaching at Hunan Mingde Middle School, he carried out baseball sports in the school and formed Hunan's first baseball team, the "Yangtze River Wild Team" (baseball is also called "wild ball"). Later, Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing established a baseball club in Changsha to promote baseball to young people. The start of baseball in Hunan Province was almost at the same time as the earliest development of baseball in Beijing. They were both the earliest areas to develop baseball in domestic history. After the founding of New China, Hunan sent teams to participate in the first and second National Games and the All-Army Games. In the 26th Olympic Games in 1996, China's women's softball team won the runner-up. There were also many Hunan players in the national team at that time. Since baseball and softball temporarily withdrew from the Olympic family after the 2008 Olympic Games, the development of baseball and softball projects in many domestic provinces at the professional team level has been relatively slow.
Children experience the joy of baseball and softball.
In recent years, with the rapid development of China's economy and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, people's demand for participating in sports has become increasingly strong. Most families have formed the concept that their children should actively participate in sports. Driven by the rapid development of common mass sports, some families are more willing to choose some international and personalized niche sports. Baseball and softball, as a popular sport in developed countries and regions but still a niche sport in China, have become the choice of many families. In the summer of 2017, the first domestic baseball TV series "Our Boyhood" starring TFBOYS was broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV during the summer prime time. For the first time, baseball came to the TV screens of thousands of households, which greatly promoted baseball. At present, baseball and softball sports are developing well in the first-tier and coastal cities in China. The National Softball and Softball Championship for Primary and Secondary School Students jointly organized by the Chinese Softball Association and the Chinese Education Society every year has more than 200 participating teams. This year, the National Youth Baseball Open hosted by the National Sports General Administration and the Chinese Baseball Association has multiple divisions, attracting hundreds of youth teams from all over the country to participate.
In September 2013, several Hunan graduates of the Beijing Normal University baseball team founded Qile Baseball Academy in Changsha, combining various resources to promote baseball and softball in Hunan. From the development of 2 students and 2 university club teams in 2013, Hunan now has a total of 7 colleges and universities, more than 30 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens that carry out baseball and softball sports. Qile Baseball Academy also has branches in Changsha, Zhuzhou There are more than 10 youth club teams in , as well as 6 social adult teams, with more than 3,000 baseball and softball players and enthusiasts of all ages. Hunan youth baseball and softball sports are full of vitality. The 2018 National Youth Baseball Open (Changsha Division) is hosted by the Handball Baseball and Softball Center of the State Sports General Administration and the Chinese Baseball Association. Under the guidance of the Changsha Sports Federation and the Youth Department of the Changsha Sports Bureau, it is organized by Changsha Organized by the Municipal Baseball and Softball Sports Association and Hunan Qile Sports Culture Development Co., Ltd., it will be held at the Qile Laodao River Baseball Stadium located on the banks of the Laodao River in Kaifu District, China.Ye Bin, Director of the Youth and Youth Affairs Department of the Changsha Municipal Sports Bureau, attended the opening ceremony and announced the official start of the game. Yu Xiaohui, President of the Changsha Baseball and Softball Sports Association, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a welcome speech.
Baseball and softball is an official event at the China National Games and Youth Games. It will officially return to the Olympic family at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and will soon become an official event at the Hunan and other city and state games. This competition is divided into 4 competition days, and there will be more than 100 youth competitions in each group. Everyone is welcome to go to Qile Laodaohe Baseball Stadium to watch and experience the game, and learn about and participate in baseball and softball on the spot.
