China News Service, Beijing, July 18th (Reporter Xing Chong) The Chinese Super League will kick off on the 25th in Dalian and Suzhou. Affected by the epidemic, this year's Super League will be the first to implement a tournament system. From July 25 to September 28, 16 Super League teams will stage 112 games in 14 rounds in 66 days.

  Intensive schedule arrangements, special requirements for epidemic prevention and control, and hot and rainy weather conditions are all challenges faced by the venues. The reporter learned from the tournament organizing committee on the 18th that the venues of the two major regions are now ready to await the start of the Chinese Super League.

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Dalian Division: Three stadiums have a new look

  The Dalian Youth Football Training Base is less than seven months old. In addition to providing a 5,000-seat stadium, the Super League will also provide Dalian, Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao, Guangzhou R&F, Shenzhen Jiazhaoye and Shanghai Greenland Shenhua 5 Each team provides a high-standard training ground and three spare grounds.

  In the first round of the Super League, there are two games to be played on the same day. The person in charge of the Dalian Youth Youth Training Base said that the high-standard lawn of the stadium has reached the level of Europe's first-class stadium. A special "bird repellent" device is installed on the side of the stadium to prevent flying birds from carrying other grass species or debris into the venue. There is a meteorological environment data collection instrument, which can monitor the meteorological and lawn soil data in real time, and realize intelligent management of lawn irrigation, lawn temperature regulation and stadium lighting.

  In the past few seasons, Dalian Sports Center Stadium has been the regular home of the Dalian People's Team and has extensive experience in running games. In addition to providing competition venues during the Super League, it will also provide training venues for Shandong Luneng Taishan, Henan Jianye and Jiangsu Suning Tesco teams.

  In order to make better use of the existing situation of the venue and meet the requirements of epidemic prevention, the Dalian Sports Center Stadium has specially divided the first-floor function room area, the third-floor podium area and the fourth-floor box area. In the rainy season of Dalian, in order to cope with possible damage to the lawn of the stadium, the stadium has prepared sufficient spare lawn to replace it in time to ensure the smooth progress of the game.

  Dalian Jinzhou Stadium once held the 1998 World Cup qualifier in Asia. It is also the stadium with the most transformation of the Dalian Super League in this Super League. The plastic runway around the stadium lawn is fully covered with artificial turf, although the initial match of the Super League will be empty In order to improve the live broadcast effect, the seats of Jinzhou Stadium have also been completely renovated.

Suzhou Division: Comprehensive deployment of epidemic prevention and control

  The Suzhou Olympic Sports Center has been in operation since June 2018, and the Super Cup of the Chinese Football Association will be staged here in 2019. During the Super League game, multiple security personnel will be equipped for each game to actively cooperate with the local public security to complete epidemic prevention, security, transportation, etc. jobs.

  Since its establishment, Suzhou Sports Center has successfully hosted a number of major events such as the Chinese National Team Warm-up, U23 Warm-up, Football Association Cup, Chinese Women's Super Cup, and China Football League A. In order to respond to the needs of epidemic prevention under special events, in addition to all areas carrying out epidemic prevention and strict control of closed areas, Suzhou Sports Center has also prepared sufficient epidemic prevention materials to ensure "zero infection, zero input, zero spread" of the epidemic.

  Another stadium, Kunshan Sports Center, has set up eight working groups, such as epidemic prevention, business, venues, and security, to carry out targeted upgrades and renovations of the stadium. Electrical circuit maintenance, the arrangement of items for various functional rooms, and network coverage are also in place. Step by step in progress. The biggest difference from the past is that the stadium mainly uses electronic communication to achieve contactless handover, and the personnel of both parties must not enter the vacuum zone at the same time to ensure that all aspects of this event are foolproof.

  The Suzhou Taihu Football Sports Center will serve as the training and life base for 8 teams. The 8 natural grass standard venues will be rotated to 8 teams. The indoor artificial grass training hall will also be rotated to each team in turn.

  In addition, the participating clubs of the Chinese Super League this year will unify their coaches to the competition area. From July 17, Henan Jianye, Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, Shandong Luneng, Shenzhen Jiazhaoye, Hebei Huaxia Bliss, and Chongqing Contemporary have arrived in Dalian and Suzhou. The players can take the usual familiarity during the game. The coach of the team went to the training ground and the competition field. (Finish)