Citizens exercise at the fitness station in Xihe Smart Sports Park, Gulou District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Shanchuan photo
Cycling enthusiasts participate in fitness cycling activities in Torreya grandis National Forest Park in Zhao Jiazhen, Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Yushe
Recently, Xinhua Sports Research Team saw in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Liaoning and other places that in the first spring after the optimization and adjustment of epidemic prevention and control policies, people’s enthusiasm for sports continued to increase. From indoor gyms to outdoor sports parks, sweaty athletes can be seen everywhere.
With the idea that sports make life better deeply rooted in people’s hearts, it has become a consensus to improve one’s immunity, and sports and fitness have become a common practice. In order to meet the people’s growing fitness needs, all localities have taken the "unique skills" at the bottom of the closet, taken many measures to improve the "hardware" of venues and facilities, and digitally upgraded the "software" of supporting services to promote the in-depth development of national fitness.
Rectify the old, build the new and open up the "capillary" of community fitness
In Yingfeng Community, Haishu District, Ningbo City, the "People’s Gym" is the most popular place. Every day, residents Xiang Jifu and "old partners" can be seen to learn table tennis skills.
This gym is located on the first floor of a unit building in the community. Xiang Jifu told reporters that the gym was once an abandoned carport, "full of garbage, a mess." Yingfeng community belongs to the old community in the old city, lacking fitness venues, and residents "strongly look forward to having an exercise venue". Thanks to the joint efforts of community volunteers in party member, street cadres, property management and other parties, everyone worked together to clean up the garbage, equipped with treadmills, elliptical machines, table tennis tables and other facilities, and transformed the abandoned carport into a 300-square-meter gym.
At present, the gym is managed by the residents of the community. "Everyone consciously cares for our own gym, and many retired people come to volunteer." Xiang Jifu said.
It is the key to make people’s fitness "step by step" and get through the "capillary" of community fitness. Old communities try their best to "dig" out fitness venues, while new communities are planned in advance in the design process. Ningbo Hufengyayuan Community is an example.
The community is equipped with a gym of more than 500 square meters, with facilities such as exercise room, table tennis table and treadmill. This kind of sports room is a "standard" in Ningbo. In recent years, Ningbo has successively issued a number of administrative normative documents and local standards to promote the construction of indoor sports and fitness rooms in new residential quarters by legislation. Up to now, there are 409 newly-built residential areas in downtown Ningbo, with 115,000 square meters of indoor fitness venues added, benefiting about 450,000 residents.
Cao Minjie, deputy director of Ningbo Sports Bureau, said that to build a "gym around the people" needs to be tailored to local conditions, refined design, and strive to make people "go out as a sports field and go downstairs to have a gym" to enjoy the happiness and sense of gain brought by sports.
According to the data released by the National Physical Fitness Monitoring Center, in 2020, the proportion of residents aged 7 and above who regularly participate in physical exercise will be 37.2%. With the "capillary" of community fitness becoming smoother and more developed, physical fitness will be more deeply integrated into people’s daily lives.
Awaken the "Sleeping Resources" of the City according to Local Conditions
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the traffic on the Panhuo viaduct in Yinzhou District of Ningbo City continued, but there was a hole in the sky under the bridge. The ball is crisp, the foot is flexible and the landing point is accurate. More than a dozen children who are not as high as the net are training badminton in full swing.
The training ground for young players is located in Panhuo Sports Park. In addition to 10 badminton courts, there are 17 basketball courts, 2 futsal courts, a standard roller skating rink and a public square in the park, with a total construction area of about 9,000 square meters and an annual sports population of 150,000.
A few years ago, this vibrant sports park was an idle space under a bridge full of weeds and garbage. Also benefiting from the utilization of urban "leftover materials" space, there is Ningbo Happy Coast Ecological Sports Park covering an area of 180,000 square meters. The once messy wasteland along the river bank has now turned into a sports park. There are standard turf football fields and other kinds of stadiums in the park, which solves the problem of "where to go for fitness" among the nearby people and improves the living quality of the surrounding communities.
This is a microcosm of awakening the "sleeping resources" of cities all over the country and increasing the supply of fitness facilities, especially in the downtown area where land is scarce. These "unique tricks" are of great help to realize the goal of "by 2025, the national per capita sports area will reach 2.6 square meters".
In the coastal city of Dalian, Malan River runs like a ribbon between urban buildings, and rowing boats pass by from time to time. This modern and fashionable sports scene attracts pedestrians to stop and watch. Relying on Malan River water resources, Dalian City Rowing Center not only conducts professional training and holds competitions, but also provides universal rowing training. Adjust measures to local conditions and revitalize river resources, so that rowing, a small group of sports, can become a beautiful landscape of the city.
"Strengthen the layout of multi-center, multi-level and multi-node national fitness resources through various means, create modern and fashionable fitness scenes, make sports better integrated into urban living space, and add new vitality to urban development." Miao Zhiwen, deputy director of Dalian Sports Bureau, said.
Internet empowers to upgrade fitness "soft" services
In the national fitness spots on the streets of Nanjing, if you look closely, you will find that every outdoor fitness equipment is labeled with a QR code. In recent years, Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places are trying to solve the problems of difficult management and high management cost of public sports venues and facilities through internet means, and "scanning code for repair" is becoming more and more popular.
In Jiangsu, residents can now obtain the accurate distribution of venues, facilities and surrounding sites in the region through the "Jiangsu Sports" applet, and they can "repair with one click" when encountering facilities failure. Chen Shaojun, director of the Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau, said that in order to keep the fitness equipment running healthily, Jiangsu Province has set up an information platform for the management and maintenance of national fitness facilities, including nearly 600,000 pieces of outdoor fitness equipment in the province, effectively solving the pain point of inadequate long-term management and protection of outdoor equipment, and providing high-level public fitness services for the people.
The same is the QR code, but the QR code on the top of the road pile along the "Zhejiang Trail" in Zhejiang Province has different uses.
The "Trail around Zhejiang" is 2300 kilometers long, connecting the landscape, ancient villages and human history of Zhejiang Province in series, attracting many outdoor sports enthusiasts to punch in, and it is a business card of Zhejiang mass sports. The reporter saw in the Yongshan section of the "Zhejiang Trail" in Fenghua District, Ningbo City that there are road stakes every 500 meters along the trail. You can enjoy the intimate "guide" service by scanning the QR code at the top, and get the current location, road conditions, popular routes and other information. You can also record your footprints by punching in and participate in the competition by yourself.
With the enhancement of people’s health awareness, there is more demand for scientific fitness. All parts of the country are strengthening the integration of sports and health, and continuously promoting the integration of sports resources and medical resources.
Ningbo Institute of Sports Science not only provides professional medical care for professional athletes, but also provides scientific fitness guidance and sports injury rehabilitation services for the public. Changzhou Sports Hospital is characterized by sports rehabilitation. Since its opening in 2016, the number of outpatients has increased by nearly 30% every year.
Sports is an important medium to enhance people’s happiness in life. In Chen Shaojun’s view, "both the construction of venues and facilities and the operation, maintenance and management should be paid attention to, and a higher-level public service system for national fitness should be continuously promoted, so that ordinary people can enjoy the beauty and joy of sports".
(Note writers: Tian Guangyu, Xu Jiren, Li Li; Participating reporters: Fang Yibo, Cai Yongjun, Xia Liang, Wang Hengzhi, Wang Qinou, Wang Chujie, Hu Jiali, Xu Shihao)
