The Jingzhou Municipal Bureau of Sports and Shashi Experimental Primary School signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Evergrande Football School (EFS) on July 14 to jointly build Evergrande Youth Football Training Center. Shui Bing, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy DirectorGeneral of the Hubei Administration of Sport; and Sun Yuqiu, Vice Mayor of the Jingzhou Municipal People's Government attended the signing ceremony.

The center is the only of its kind deployed by EFS in Hubei Province. At the signing ceremony, Shui said Jingzhou is a major educational and sports city, and EFS is a top new-type football school. As a great move to explore Hubei's young football talents, the signing of the agreement will effectively improve Jingzhou's youth football training system and faculty, promote the integrated development of education and sports in Jingzhou, and lay a solid foundation for building a new highland for football talent training and cultivate high-level reserve football talents, he added.

Sun extended congratulations on the signing of the agreement. Over the years, Jingzhou has created a pattern of youth football development led by the government, guided by policies, instructed by professionals and supported by the society, and developed a unique model for football education in such aspects as "policy guidance, faculty building and competition establishment", she said, adding the signing of the agreement will support. Jingzhou in building a highland for football talents in Hubei.