China News Service, Xining, February 20th (Reporter Zhang Tianfu) The "Rural Revitalization Cup" Qinghai Province's 18th Farmers and Herdsmen Basketball Game was held on the 20th in the "Rainbow Hometown", a national sports and fitness model county - Haidong City, Qinghai Province. Tu Autonomous County blew the whistle to start the race.
According to a reporter from Chinanews.com, nearly 200 athletes from 14 farming and herdsmen basketball teams in Qinghai Province participated in this event. The basketball masters among farmers and herdsmen in various regions will compete for a period of 5 days.
The event can be called the "village BA" of farmers and herdsmen in Qinghai.
It is reported that the 18th Farmers and Herdsmen Basketball Game in Qinghai Province is the restart battle after the series of events were suspended for two years due to the impact of the epidemic. It is also the first large-scale mass sports event organized by Qinghai Province in 2023.
The picture shows the scene of the basketball game.
Photo courtesy of Qinghai Provincial Sports Bureau
The person in charge of the Qinghai Provincial Sports Bureau said that the Qinghai Provincial Farmers and Herdsmen Basketball Game is a relatively high-level basketball game in the province. It has been held for 17 consecutive sessions before. , one of the most influential basketball games, has played an active role in stimulating the enthusiasm of farmers and herdsmen for fitness, meeting spiritual and cultural needs, promoting the popularization and development of basketball in rural pastoral areas, and promoting exchanges and integration of various ethnic groups.
"In recent years, basketball in Qinghai Province has made great progress in venue construction, community construction, talent training, competition activities, and industrial development." said Guo Quancai, director of the Group and Youth Division of the Qinghai Provincial Sports Bureau.
Guo Quancai said that as a brand event, the Qinghai Farmers and Herdsmen Basketball Game embodies the highest level in the province; as a campus event, Qinghai Normal University women's basketball team has won honor for Qinghai; as a folk grassroots event, Xunhua and other places live up to the basketball county , The hometown of basketball.
The person in charge of the relevant departments of the Qinghai Provincial Sports Bureau said that in the future, Qinghai's characteristics will be fully utilized, and it is necessary to work hard on basic homework to find out the current situation of the development of ethnic folk sports in the province, the distribution of projects, and the basis for promotion, and to rationally arrange the development of ethnic projects in combination with local culture. Planning, formulating directions, clarifying goals and specific work measures for the establishment of a "National Sports Demonstration Zone".
At the same time, it is necessary to excavate and inherit national traditional sports, expand the construction of archery, horse racing, basketball, fitness trails and other venues, cultivate national traditional sports competition brands, strengthen the training of national traditional sports talents, develop national traditional sports industry, and strengthen foreign exchanges of national traditional sports.
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