The first high-level sports event was held after the opening of Sunland Green Space
This morning, the first Pudong New Area "Senlan Cup" urban dragon boat race kicked off on the bank of Senlan Lake. This is the first high-level event held by Senlan Greenland in Senlan Lake since it opened to the outside world for trial operation at the end of 2023. The event site has a rich traditional cultural atmosphere, and the national intangible cultural heritage market and sports carnival stimulate urban vitality and festival consumption, helping the Senlan area to improve its energy level, expand its influence, and build a brand, allowing traffic to gather, popularity to increase, and consumption to increase. It is booming and continues to polish the new business card of Pudong's integrated development brand of culture, sports, tourism and merchants.
The first Pudong New Area "Senlan Cup" urban dragon boat race adheres to the participation of all people and the linkage between China and foreign countries, attracting a total of dragon boat teams from 36 streets and towns in the district to participate in the competition. In addition, Chinese and foreign employees from Waigaoqiao Group Co., Ltd., Decathlon, WuXi Biologics, CSSC, Flint, Fleetguard and other companies around the Senlan area were specially invited to form 9 teams to participate in the invitational competition. Chinese and foreign athletes fully participated and devoted themselves wholeheartedly, vividly interpreting the dragon boat spirit of unity and struggle and striving for the top, showing the infinite charm of traditional Chinese culture in the "place closest to the world". The event uses a 22-person dragon boat and a 300-meter straight race. Compared with conventional rivers, the shoreline of Senlan Lake is in an irregular curve and the lake surface is relatively wide, which brings greater challenges to the participants and increases the viewing pleasure of the event.
While the dragon boats are moving forward in excitement, a wonderful national style intangible cultural heritage market is simultaneously held on the shore of Senlan Lake. Many streets and towns in Pudong have presented traditional cultural performances with their own characteristics and profound heritage, including Shanghai velvet embroidery, Gaoqiao muffin making, Chinese quintessence of Chinese medicine and acupuncture booths in Gaoqiao Town, and paper-cutting, round fan making, At the traditional Chinese medicine experience booth, Sanlin Town also demonstrated skills such as standard cloth weaving, embroidery, and porcelain carving. Companies such as Wuyi Tea Culture, Pudong Peony Garden Cultural and Creative Industries, Hema, Global Exchange, Dole, etc. have all brought special markets for display and sales, attracting a large number of citizens to come for shopping.
In addition, the waters of Senlan Lake also staged wonderful water trapeze and power paddle board performances, which also attracted many citizens and tourists to stop and watch. A large number of sports brand parties gathered in the Senlan area, including Decathlon, Xinzhou Sports, SOLOX, etc., were also present and jointly presented a wonderful sports carnival.
The reporter learned that the Senlan wedge-shaped green space where this event is located is one of the wedge-shaped green spaces in the central urban area determined by Shanghai's urban master plan. It is not only an "urban green lung" that regulates the city's important ecological and environmental functions, but also carries the leisure, entertainment, and culture of urban residents. A "recreational treasure place" with various urban service functions such as communication and health sports, giving citizens a greater sense of gain.
The Senlan area is centered on 2.62 million square meters of green space and 720,000 square meters of water. It is integrated with nearly 750,000 square meters of commercial buildings, office buildings, hotel apartments, prestigious school resources, etc. to form a "green space when you open the window and a lake when you go out" The city of boundless life. In recent years, a number of well-known sports and cultural IP events have been held, such as the Spartan Warriors Race, Color Run, National Trend Music Festival, Simple Life Festival, Pudong Peony Festival, and Senlan Unbounded Life Festival. The Senlan Sports Center located on Zhouhai Road and Lansong Road was also officially opened and operated on the same day.
Zhu Zhisong, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Pudong New Area Committee, attended the event.