China News Service, Baisha, Hainan, February 4th: Hainan mountain city creates a hot spot for winter sports training in China
Reporter Wang Xiaobin Chen Yingqing
Baisha Li Autonomous County in Hainan Province is located in the mountainous area in the central part of Hainan Island. In recent years, this warm mountain town has welcomed a group of special "migratory birds" every winter - "national-level" athletes for winter training. The reporter recently visited Baisha to explore this emerging winter training hotspot for Chinese sports.
Since the beginning of winter, China’s national teams in various sports are carrying out their last winter training before the Paris Summer Olympics. In Baisha, a mountain town in Hainan 10,000 kilometers away from Paris, reporters felt the Olympic atmosphere of hard work in advance: members of the Chinese National Rock Climbing Team In the museum, the archers of China's national archery team "fly over the walls" on the track and field...
Recently in Baisha, Hainan, members of the yellow team of the Chinese National Archery Team trained in the track and field. Photo by China News Network reporter Wang Xiaobin
The Baisha Cultural and Sports Center where the "Guozihao" sports team members gather is the largest sports facility in central Hainan Island. In June 2020, the center was named the "National Sports Training Southern Base (Hainan Baisha Comprehensive)" by the State Sports General Administration of China. Seven national sports associations, including the Chinese Boxing Association, the Chinese Mountaineering Association, and the Chinese Modern Pentathlon Association, have successively set up training bases for nine individual sports here.
Why is White Sands so popular with professional sports teams? Deng Chengcai, coach of the red team of the national archery team, said that the climatic conditions in Baisha are conducive to the smooth implementation of the winter training model that combines "training" and "games" for the archery team. "Archery is an outdoor event, and wearing thick clothes will affect the performance of technical movements. It is not cold here. It's just right if it's not hot." Deng Chengcai said that each athlete shoots more than 500 arrows a day on average. The high content of negative oxygen ions in the white sand air helps athletes quickly recover their physical fitness after high-intensity training.
Overlooking the Baisha Cultural and Sports Center through a drone lens. Photo by Chen Yingqing
Feng Hao, a member of the national archery team, said: "The weather in Baisha is breezy, which is conducive to the performance of our archery athletes."
The reporter learned that during the winter training in Baisha, some archery athletes shot results that exceeded China's domestic record. Rock climbing is a new Olympic sport. The speed team of the national rock climbing team has regarded Baisha as a "blessed place", and the team members have climbed here many times and achieved outstanding results.
Wen Yawen, deputy director of the Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports Bureau of Baisha Li Autonomous County, said that, driven by "national" sports teams such as the national boxing team, provincial and municipal sports teams have also become "frequent visitors" to Baisha. According to incomplete statistics, since 2018, Baisha has hosted more than 5,057 athletes from 218 national and provincial training teams.
The professional training team conducts winter training in Baisha, bringing continuous sports events to the mountain city. "National Freestyle Roller Skating Open, National Men's and Women's Boxing Championships, Hangzhou Asian Games martial arts, wrestling, rock climbing and many other trials..." Wen Yawen said that in the past six years, Baisha has successfully hosted 98 national and provincial events.
Recently in Baisha, Hainan, athletes conducted physical training in the gym of Baisha Culture and Sports Center. Photo by China News Network reporter Wang Xiaobin
"The 2023 National Men's Boxing Championship will be held in Baisha in December. Boxing fans from all over the country are pouring in, and it is difficult to find a room in the county." Wen Yawen introduced that the "heat" of sports events brings "traffic" of cultural and tourism consumption, and Baisha is interested in The cultural and sports center facilities are open to all citizens and tourists at an affordable price, allowing more people to experience the fun of sports; it plans to continue to introduce high-quality events, create local brand events, and attract tourists from all over the world to "travel to Baisha with the events."
"The Olympic Village will be fully put into use after this year and will become one of the reception venues with the best facilities in Baisha." Kang Minli, the person in charge of Baisha Olympic Village (National Sports Training Southern Base Athletes Apartment) said that the Olympic Village integrates catering, accommodation, and training. , hotel, conference, business office and other functions are integrated into one, and can provide services for 600 athletes.
Recently in Baisha, Hainan, athletes staying at the Baisha Olympic Village were exercising on the tennis court. Photo by China News Network reporter Wang Xiaobin
In addition to ensuring the winter training of professional athletes, Kang Minli said that the Baisha Olympic Village will usually provide services for sports events, sports research, etc. In Kang Minli's view, Baisha has various elements of an international sports training base and is expected to be driven by the winter training of professional sports teams and ride on the east wind of Hainan's island-wide construction of a free trade port to create sports education, sports tourism, and sports medicine. Rehabilitation, sports exhibitions, sports tax exemption and many other "sports +" ecology. (over)