China News Service, Guangzhou, February 11, title: Feng Qinghua’s "Football Dream": To be a promoter of football exchanges between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau
China News Service reporter Tang Guijiang
The fields that I accidentally engaged in when I was a teenager sometimes often become the biggest thoughts in people's hearts, making people crazy about it.
Feng Qinghua, a successful entrepreneur since the 1990s and the current president of the Guangzhou Panyu District Sports Federation, has such a passion for football.
Over the years, he has been committed to promoting football cultural exchanges in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. His dream is to bring people from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao closer to each other through football.
Aerial photography of the largest continuous football field in the city center of the Pearl River Delta.
Photo courtesy of respondents
"When I was very young, I went to a sports school in Panyu, Guangzhou. Later, I graduated from school and started business and embarked on a different path in life, but in the end I couldn't let go of the sports I once loved the most." Feng Qinghua said in an interview with reporters a few days ago. He founded the Mushengyuan Football Club and more than 200 acres of professional training and competition venues, built the largest continuous football field in the city center of the Pearl River Delta, and trained thousands of youth reserve forces and professional coaches.
“Many people in Hong Kong and Macau have their ancestral homes in Panyu. Mr. Fok Yingdong and Mr. He Xian are all from Panyu, so the communication between Panyu and Hong Kong and Macau has been very active.” Feng Qinghua said, as the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area continues to advance As football is the most popular sport in the world, football exchanges have become the most popular way of non-governmental exchanges between the three places.
In Panyu, Feng Qinghua’s Mushengyuan Football Stadium is well-known. This is known as the largest continuous football stadium in the city center of the Pearl River Delta. It has a total of 16 football fields. At the foot of the Doctor Mountain in Panyu, more than ten modern stadiums are lined up. The film, covered with greenery, was quite spectacular. The reporter visited on an afternoon in early February. Hundreds of citizens and players were playing on the court, which was very lively.
Feng Qinghua is with the young players.
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On the stadium, the reporter ran into Dong Guozhi, the former national main goalkeeper. He was selected for the Chinese Olympic team in 1994 and was one of the first batch of professional football players in China. On the same day, he was leading four or five small players training on the stadium. In response to the problems in the children’s training, Dong Guozhi gave guidance one by one very seriously.
Dong Guozhi and Feng Qinghua were very familiar with each other, and they started talking naturally when they met.
"He teaches children very seriously and has cultivated a lot of goalkeeper talents. Everyone likes him very much," Feng Qinghua said.
On the photo wall in the corner of the stadium, many "wonderful moments" of the Mushengyuan Club are recorded, including many scenes of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao folk football matches. One of them is a group photo of the "Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Youth Football Match". Feng Qinghua couldn't bear it. Stopped and introduced to reporters.
The 2017 Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao Youth Football Game kick-off.
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The competition was concerned and valued by all aspects of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau. At the time, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Football Association Rong Zhixing, Member of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of the Macau Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Liao Xiyun, member of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The chairman of the committee and the preparatory committee Huo Qishan and other people from Hong Kong and Macao attended the meeting.
The reporter noticed that Tan Yaozong, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and the veteran of the Democratic Alliance for the People’s Republic of China; He Jinglin, the grandson of Ho Xian, a representative of the National People’s Congress of the Macau Special Administrative Region and a well-known patriot of Macau; Support a number of similar non-governmental football exchange activities organized by Feng Qinghua.
Mushengyuan Stadium is also the listing exchange base of the Hong Kong Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong in Panyu.
The chairman of German Carl Zeiss Jena Football Club and Feng Qinghua exchanged a group photo.
Photo courtesy of respondents
"Cantonese people attach great importance to the relationship between people. Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are geographically close, and people are related to each other. Many people here have relatives in Hong Kong and Macao. There are natural advantages in personnel exchanges and exchanges between the three places." Feng Qinghua said. Building a world-class bay area has become the biggest development vision of people. The continuous advancement of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has given people in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao more development space and opportunities.
Feng Qinghua said: "I have a passion and passion for football. In this stadium alone, my annual investment is about 5 million yuan. Now there are many football fans here every day to play, and thousands of people are trained. Some of the football reserve talents of the plan have been sent to Peking University and Tsinghua University to study; it can promote the exchange of non-governmental football between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and let people in the three places enjoy the joy of sports together. This is a very worthwhile thing to do. I am willing Continue to be such a promoter." (End)