China News Service, Yinchuan, May 22 (Reporter Li Peishan) Steals, passes, shots... After an hour of fierce competition, on the afternoon of May 22, the team of No. 6 Primary School in Lingwu City, Yinchuan, Ningxia won the primary school with a score of 3:1. The champion of the men's group won the bag, and the 7-day "Run, Boys" 2022 Lingwu City 13th "Gypsophila" Youth Campus Football League came to a successful conclusion.

  As a national campus football pilot county and city, Lingwu City has taken advantage of the opportunity to promote the integration of sports and education. All schools have achieved 100% coverage of football courses on campus, and the participation rate of campus football students is nearly 100%. Nearly 40 students have been selected as the "Best Youth Campus Football" "Best Team", students have repeatedly won good results in various international and national competitions, and campus football has become a beautiful business card of Lingwu.

The scene of Lingwu's 2022 Youth Campus Football League match.

Photo by Chen Rui

  The primary school boys team and the primary school girls team are 8-a-side; the junior high school men's team, the junior high school women's team, the high school men's team, and the high school women's team are 11-a-side... The Youth Campus Football League is one of the popular events that Lingwu primary and middle school students compete to participate in. The competition has been successfully held for 12 sessions.

Combined with the national and district-wide campus football U series events, championships, and leagues to establish a multi-level competition system, Lingwu City has also established a kindergarten, primary school, junior high school, and high school A and B men's and women's football league mechanism. The methods continue to enrich the after-school football training on campus, improve the competition system, enhance students' physique, cultivate good physical exercise habits, and accelerate the development of campus football in our city and the modernization of the system." said Wei Yuejuan, principal of Lingwu Sports Center.

  From a football desert to a football oasis, in recent years, the new model of integrated development of sports and education of "curriculum popularization, competition training improvement, and talent co-education" has made Lingwu a strong football city in the northwest.

At present, there are 43 public primary and secondary schools in Lingwu City, with more than 36,000 students. Lingwu City has established a normalization mechanism for kindergarten, primary school, junior high school, and high school A and B men's and women's football leagues, and has elected 22 schools with national youth campus football characteristics, There are 8 kindergartens, and 1 national youth campus football "Gypsophila" training camp has been established.

Professional teachers carry out football courses for students (data map).

  At the same time, Lingwu City has established a sound football teacher training system, strengthened the professional skills training of full-time and part-time football teachers, and built a team of full-time and part-time football teachers.

In 2021, Lingwu City will be identified by the State Sports General Administration as a typical county and city for county football in the country.

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