China News Service, Chengdu, October 9th (Wang Peng, Yue Yitong, Wang Liwen) On October 9, the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships entered the last match day.
This 2022 world table tennis event with the highest level and the largest scale is about to come to an end.
In Chengdu, where the competition was held, the wonderful performances of the athletes infected the citizens of Chengdu, and the city also showed its sports background to the world.
"All people are table tennis" World Table Tennis Championships ignite sports boom
"Table tennis world, taste Chengdu", after the World Table Tennis Championships in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Suzhou, the World Table Tennis Championships have settled in China for the sixth time.
The Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships is another top international event held in China after the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics, attracting 60 sports teams from 36 countries and regions.
The table tennis sports venues near the residential areas of Chengdu have attracted many citizens.
Photo courtesy of Chengdu Sports Bureau
This is not the first time Chengdu has become associated with table tennis.
In July 2006, the Table Tennis Sports Management Center of the State Sports General Administration approved the establishment of the China Table Tennis Association Western International Training Center in Chengdu. Since then, Chengdu has undertaken more than 10 preparations for the Chinese table tennis team before the competition, and has held the China Table Tennis Open for 4 consecutive years. The World Cup of Table Tennis is held three times in two years.
After the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships started, the whole city also entered "ping pong time".
Coinciding with the National Day holiday, the ping pong fever is rapidly heating up in the streets and alleys of Chengdu.
People playing table tennis can be seen everywhere in roadside parks, community sports spaces, gymnasiums, and communities, and the sound of hitting the ball reverberates everywhere.
During the World Table Tennis Championships, Chengdu citizens played table tennis in the sports space on the street.
Photo by Wang Lei
In the Chengdu Staff Table Tennis Training Center, 7-year-old "table tennis player" Tang Zixuan will come to train whenever she has time. As the champion of the 13 and 14 age groups in the Sichuan Youth Table Tennis Open in 2022, her dream is very clear, "Growing up After that, I want to be an Olympic champion."
According to Wang Biao, the coach of the Chengdu Staff Table Tennis Training Center, in recent years, people's growing awareness of sports has driven various sports to become popular. Table tennis, as a national game, has an even more obvious upward trend in the number of participants.
"We have more than 20 tables here, and it is not uncommon for them to be full. In addition to those who want to become professional athletes, from the perspective of various amateur competitions, the level of public table tennis is constantly improving."
The reason why the World Table Tennis Championships settled in this western city is not only due to the reputation and international reputation created by Chengdu, but also a vivid reflection of the city's sports background.
As Deng Yaping, the world table tennis legend and grand slam winner of table tennis, said in an interview with the media a few days ago: "Chengdu has a strong sports atmosphere, and the sports background displayed by this park city has infected me."
The Sports Benefiting the People Movement is integrated into the life of Chengdu citizens
A city's sports background is more about whether sports are integrated into the daily life of citizens.
In recent years, Sichuan has successively issued the "Sichuan Province National Fitness Implementation Plan" and "Sichuan Province Sports Development "14th Five-Year Plan" to promote the full coverage of three-level public sports fitness facilities and community "15-minute fitness circles".
As the provincial capital city, the upsurge of national fitness in Chengdu has a long history.
In the first half of this year, "Challenging a 100-kilometer ride in Chengdu" has become a major weather vane for the Chengdu cycling circle to experience outdoor fashion sports.
Greenway cycling, climbing Longquan Mountain, and camping in the wild have also become the "new three things" for Chengdu people.
The popularity of cycling in Chengdu is due to the complete connection of the Chengdu Huancheng Ecological Park. This unique 100-kilometer “green necklace” in Chengdu has become a popular area for cycling.
"I have cycled in many cities in China. I have never seen a greenway around the city like this. I have seen the beautiful scenery while riding," said Wang Yao, a cycling enthusiast.
The main stadium of the Universiade by the Dong'an Lake in Chengdu.
Photo by Zhang Lang
Data shows that by the end of 2021, Chengdu Tianfu greenway system has completed 5,188 kilometers, greenways and parks have accelerated to form a network, and the green transportation system of "rail + bus + slow travel" has been accelerated to create an innovative "one mountain with two wings". "The overall layout of urban space, making Chengdu a "city in a park".
As the host city of the 31st Summer Universiade, Chengdu has built a large number of modern sports venues to ensure the smooth progress of the Universiade.
In June of this year, the Chengdu Municipal Sports Bureau announced that in order to implement "the venues benefit the people and the sports to benefit the people", the Chengdu Universiade venues will be fully opened to the society, which is "adding firewood" to the national sports upsurge.
The opening of venues also means more "admissions" for events.
Chengdu Municipal Sports Bureau has stated that the 2022 Universiade venues will organize no less than 150 sports events for various youths, and at the same time hold no less than 600 national fitness activities, and select excellent social sports instructors to go deep into these venues to carry out various activities. Less than 400 times of scientific fitness guidance activities.
According to statistics, since the implementation of the "Chengdu Universiade Venues Benefiting People Action Plan" in April 2021, a series of high-level professional events and down-to-earth mass events have been staged one after another in the Universiade venues.
A data can more intuitively reflect the background of Chengdu's sports - in 2021, the population of Chengdu who regularly participates in physical exercise will exceed 9 million, and the qualified rate of citizens' physical fitness will increase to 93.15%, which has been steadily increasing for 6 consecutive years.
Aerial photography of the Sichuan Water Sports School venue, which will be used as the venue for the rowing competition of the Chengdu Universiade.
Photo by Anyuan
Events Xingcheng Chengdu sports industry into the "blue ocean"
With the popularization of the national fitness concept and the continuous improvement of urban sports soft and hard facilities, Chengdu's sports atmosphere has become increasingly strong, and it has also promoted the development of the sports industry into the "fast lane".
Data show that in 2020, the total scale of Chengdu's sports industry will reach 80.502 billion yuan, an increase of 9.89% over 2019.
The "Chengdu World Famous Event City Construction Outline" issued in 2021 clearly states that by 2025, the total scale of the sports industry will exceed 150 billion yuan, the added value of the sports industry will account for more than 2% of the local GDP, and the city's total sports consumption will scale. exceeded 90 billion yuan.
According to Liu Wei, President of Tianfu International Sports Events Research Institute and President of Sichuan Sports Industry-University-Research Promotion Association, Chengdu's efforts to build a world famous event city has played an important role in shaping the city's brand and optimizing the city's energy level. .
In addition to the World Police and Firefighters Games, Universiade, World Table Tennis Championships, World Games and other major international sports events have chosen Chengdu in recent years, the locally created Panda Cup International Youth Football Invitational Tournament, Tianfu Longquan Mountain China100 Mountain Cross Country Competition, etc. very successful.
Liu Wei said that the sports industry itself has the characteristics of a long industrial chain, a wide range of radiation, and strong integration functions. The integration of other formats can generate strong economic efficiency and promote the transformation of traditional formats to emerging composite formats.
A variety of integrated formats such as sports + education, sports + tourism, and sports + culture are flourishing in Chengdu.
Chengdu citizens play land surfing and other sports in the park, and sports have become an indispensable part of Chengdu people's life.
Photo by Zhang Lang
At the same time, Chengdu citizens' love for sports has made the sports equipment market increasingly popular.
In the well-known sporting goods retailer Decathlon mall, there is an endless stream of people who come to shop.
Huang Weixin, head of Decathlon Chengdu business, told reporters that in the first half of this year, Decathlon Chengdu's sales growth exceeded double digits and achieved continuous growth.
Decathlon pays more attention to the Chengdu market, and will further invest resources and upgrade services according to the needs of citizens.
Liu Wei believes that the Chengdu sports industry will achieve explosive growth in the future.
In the process of promoting rural revitalization, Chengdu will increase the construction of sports facilities, so that the sports public service system will further cover the urban and rural areas; relevant enterprises should continue to promote management and strengthen product iterative upgrading while welcoming the blue ocean of the industry; at the same time, the city should further build a shared The business model of sports makes full use of information technology platforms such as the Internet and big data to polish the business card of the urban sports industry.
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