August 8th is the tenth National Fitness Day in China. On the morning of this day, the launching ceremony of the 10th Jingzhou“National Fitness Day” & National Physical Monitoring Public Welfare Activity was hosted at Jingzhou Sports Center.
Sun Yuqiu, Vice Mayor of Jingzhou, announced the opening of the activity and Wenyi, Vice Chairman of Jingzhou Municipal Political Consultative Conference and Secretary of Party Leadership and Director of Jingzhou Administration of Education and Sports, and Liu Huiping, Secretary of Shashi District, attended this activity.
At the launching ceremony, a series of rich recreation and sports performance such as martial arts, yoga, lala gym, and square dancing made citizens feel the unique charm of citywide fitness. It also provided free physical monitoring activities for the public, including professional physical testing projects in terms of height, weight, grip strength, vertical jump, push-up, sit-up, vital capacity, and reaction speed, which made citizens know their own body condition timely.
In recent years, Jingzhou has always attached importance to the sports undertaking as the major livelihood matter, the public as the main body of the sports undertaking, and the development of citywide fitness as the starting point and objective of sports work, which contributes to the new higher development level of citywide fitness. It has set up three sports centersin the urban area, “one major and two minors” and integrated 553 small and medium-sized stadiums in communities and streets so as to build a “15-minute fitness circle” in Jingzhou. It carries out the demonstration project of new citywide fitness and realizes the full coverage of sports facilities incommunities and administrative villages. All stadiums in Jingzhou receive 1.2 million people each year and bear a cost of more than 3 million by its own.
At the activity day of “National Fitness Day”, the three sports centers, namely Jingzhou Sports Center, Olympic Center, and Jingzhou Ancient Fitness Center, were free to the public for the whole day with the purpose of encouraging citizens to actively participate in this activity and improve their body quality and life quality.
Meanwhile, allcounties, cities, and districts of Jingzhou organized and conducted parallel sessions of the activity synchronously. Moreover, they performed a series of activities including radio gymnastic exercises, basketball, table tennis, shadowboxing, riding, jogging, and square dancing, which all highlighted their local features, resource advantages, and activity brands. It set off a wave that all people concern body exercise and all people attach importance to fitness.
According to statistics, nearly 40 thousand people in Jingzhou participated in this activity on August 8th.