China News Service, Jiangmen, July 10 (Reporter Tang Guijiang) From July 9 to 10, the 2022 Southern Guangdong Ancient Post Road Orientation Competition (Jiangmen Enping Station) and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Series-Orientation Open will be held in Jiangmen City The race started in Liantang Village, Niujiang Town, Enping City.
Cai Jianxiang, Director of Guangdong Social Sports and Training Competition Center, Liu Peng, Vice President of Guangdong Outdoor Sports Association, Fang Weimin, Volunteer Association of Planners, Architects and Engineers of Guangdong Province, Zhong Peiying, World Champion of Women's Team Epee, Youth Olympic Games and Asian Games Men's 50m freestyle champion Yu Hexin attended the event.
Wu Yongfang, chairman of the Enping CPPCC, started the competition.
Concentrated athlete.
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The event of this site fully implements the overall prevention and control strategy of "foreign defense input, internal defense rebound", prudent, safe and orderly organization, combined with the epidemic prevention and control situation and requirements of the host site, the site's competition is controlled as a provincial event, with provincial Insiders are the registered participants.
From July 9th to 10th, the 2022 Southern Guangdong Ancient Post Road Orientation Competition (Jiangmen Enping Station) and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Series-Orientation Open will be held simultaneously. The professional group and the adult group are divided into sprint orienteering and team orienteering; the children's group is divided into sprint orienteering and team orienteering; the experience group is short-distance orienteering.
Among them, the team orienteering will take part in the team as a unit, and the experience group includes the Hong Kong Jockey Club parent-child group, the student group and the public group.
Athletes compete in the charming Liantang Ancient Village.
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The 2022 Nanyue Ancient Post Road Orientation Contest entered Liantang Village, Niujiang Town, Enping City, Jiangmen City for the first time, which is of special significance.
Geographically, Enping City is located at the southwest end of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, bordering the South China Sea, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, east to Guangzhou and Foshan, and west to Yangjiang and Zhanjiang.
Liantang Village, the main venue of the event, is one of the ancient cultural villages in Enping with a long history. When the village was opened, it developed from six houses and six houses to more than 3,000 households, the largest village in Enping City and a well-known overseas Chinese village with a population of more than 10,000 at home and abroad. .
Liantang Ancient Village has a strong ancient charm. It has one of the three ancient post stations in Enping City. It can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. Tang Xianzu, a great opera and writer, once took the Liantang Ancient Post Station and left a well-known poem.
There is only one ancient street in and out of the village, which is known as the "Liantang Ancient Road" in history.
Liantang Village is also the birthplace of Feng Ru, the "Father of Chinese Aviation". In the village, Feng Ru's former residence, Feng Ru's Cultural History Museum, Feng Ru Memorial Building, etc. have exhibited precious cultural and historical materials and pictures about Feng Ru's life story and the history of China's aviation development. Here you can explore the footprints of aviation celebrities.
Competition award ceremony.
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Founded in 1884, the Hong Kong Jockey Club has been actively supporting sports cooperation and exchanges between Guangdong and Hong Kong.
This year, the Jockey Club once again supported the Nanyue Ancient Post Road Orientation Competition and became one of the sponsors, and set up a special booth to introduce the long-term cooperation results between the Jockey Club and Guangdong Province in sports and cultural exchanges, as well as the development of horse sports and related industries in the Greater Bay Area. latest situation.
In August this year, the second leg of the 2022 Southern Guangdong Ancient Post Road Orientation Competition will be held in Shuangyucheng Village, Shangyang Village, Shangyang Town, Yangxi County, Yangjiang City.
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