Shencheng National "Hot Training": Xujiahui Sports Park is popular, and the Bund has opened its first urban sports center... National Fitness Day | Citizens | Popularity
On August 8th, it is the 15th National Fitness Day in China. Nearly 800 public sports facilities, including public sports stadiums, citizen sports fields, citizen fitness centers, citizen swimming pools, and physical fitness monitoring stations, are open to citizens for free in the city.
For the first time, the newly renovated Xujiahui Sports Park has fully opened all sports at Wantihui and Shanghai Swimming Pool for free. Football, badminton, tennis, and table tennis courts, located in the swimming pool of Shanghai Swimming Pool, offer a high level of fitness enthusiasm among citizens. In addition to providing citizens with the necessary venues for daily fitness activities, the "Live Up to the Four Seasons" Sports Carnival and the "All People Come to Exercise, Challenge the Ten Thousand Sports Club" check-in activities on that day also brought rich prizes, practical sports experiences, and professional guidance to citizens.
As an independent IP created by the center company of Jiushi Sports, the "Live Up to the Four Seasons" theme activity has accumulated a good reputation among the youth group in Shanghai with professional training teachers and rich and colorful activity courses. It continuously relies on sports and education resources to expand the market, and utilizes teaching advantages to expand training targets. Now, it has become a sports experience training activity covering all age groups.
This year's National Fitness Day, in order to cultivate interest in sports among people of all ages, the "Live Up to the Four Seasons" Sports Carnival has emerged. By completing challenge tasks in eight sports including football, basketball, tennis, table tennis, badminton, frisbee, baseball, and dry land curling, participants not only have the opportunity to draw tickets for the Shenhua home stadium, but also experience the charm of different sports and improve their sports skills.
On that day, the expansion projects of the center company of Jiushi Sports, such as Meiluocheng "Art Planet", Xietu Street "Sunshine Leap" Citizen Fitness Center, and Gucun Town Xinjiayuan Sports Center, were also a hot sports scene.
The Bund Financial Urban Sports Center, built using idle space, was officially opened on National Fitness Day. Through the strong cooperation of the government, state-owned enterprises, and private enterprises, we will add new sports space to the land and wealth of Huangpu. The Bund Financial Urban Sports Center, from its conception to completion, underwent repeated polishing and a year and a half, and successfully embedded a new sports landmark in the "golden belt" of the Bund's finance in the South Bund. There are fitness centers, dance studios, basketball courts, badminton courts, as well as modern and technological entertainment projects such as shooting and archery, providing a new platform for healthy living for white-collar workers in financial enterprises.
The largest sports stadium in Jing'an District - Jing'an Sports Center integrates a comprehensive sports center, a national fitness venue, and an outdoor rooftop football field. On that day, more than 40 sports venues and facilities, including Jing'an Sports Center, Citizen Stadium, Citizen Gym, and District level Physical Fitness Monitoring Center, were open to citizens for free all day.
A tug of war competition has boosted the popularity of National Fitness Day activities. The 2023 "Industrial Bank Cup" Shanghai Urban Amateur League National Fitness Day Tug of War mixed team competition in Jing'an District attracted more than 420 athletes from more than 40 representative teams from district level agencies, various streets and towns, and resident enterprises to participate. After multiple rounds of intense competition, Jing'an Fire Rescue Brigade, Shanghai Jing'an Urban Development Co., Ltd., and Beizhan Street Green Giant Team respectively won the championship in the government group, enterprise group, and community group.
To further improve the quality of national fitness services, the Jing'an Sports Bureau will also hold more than 40 diverse forms of events, including the "Creating Excellence and Enjoying Quietness" Jing'an Elite Challenge, the Shanghai Jing'an Women's Half Marathon, and the Suhewan Shanghai Paddle Open.
Jiushi Sports East Sports Branch has launched a free and open public event with the theme of "Colorful Vitality and Colorful to You" at the Pudong Development Bank Oriental Sports Center, and a "Full Play" tennis dopamine activity at the Xianxia Tennis Center. The activities of the two venues attracted nearly 8000 citizens to participate.
Starting from 9am, the swimming, basketball, badminton, table tennis, tennis, football, paddleboarding, roller skating, and frisbee events of Pudong Sports Center will gradually open to the public. The Xianxia Tennis Center has been providing free tennis courts to citizens since 6 o'clock. On the day of National Fitness Day, the Yulanqiao Indoor Swimming Pool and Yueliangwan Diving Pool of Pudong Sports Center opened a total of 7 swimming periods and 4100 swimming spots; The business hours of ball courts have been extended by one hour compared to usual. In addition, Pudong Sports has added free experience slots for trendy events such as frisbee and roller skating for citizens, and arranged for coaches to provide on-site guidance.
In order to enrich the sports experience of citizens, starting from August 6th, the Pudong Sports Center has also set up various fun activities such as "Ice Rabbit" check-in, curling, Happy Wheel, Lucky Sandbag Throwing, points exchange for ice cream, and painting classes at the event site. The Xianxia Tennis Center has set up multiple check-in and photo taking locations on site, and organized trendy activities such as the Tennis Zumba Flash. The summer tennis season at Xianxia Tennis Center also starts simultaneously. From now until the end of August, there are free courts and professional tennis coaches available for citizens to serve on every weekend.
On the basis of providing free access to badminton, table tennis, bowling, tennis, and the runway of Luwan Sports Center for citizens, Luwan Sports Center has also developed and created an exclusive official mini program with strong support from Huangpu District Sports Bureau to better integrate the management and open booking of various sports in the center area. It is reported that in addition to National Fitness Day, Luwan Sports Center will also provide free badminton courts every Tuesday and the 5th of each month.
From August 5th to 13th, 2023, the theme event of "National Fitness Day · Sports Promotion Week" in Shanghai will hold more than 200 offline fitness guidance services, providing citizens with over 3000 free experience spots.
At Xingnan Tennis Club, "Instant Tennis" cheers on the healthy life of citizens. As one of the first pilot units for social sports instructor training, the Shanghai Tennis Association has partnered with some member units to carry out a series of offline popularization activities for "instant tennis" in 8 districts of the city. The relevant person in charge of the association expressed the hope to expand the influence of tennis through this activity, fully leverage the professional role of social sports instructors, attract more citizens to participate in tennis, and enjoy the health and happiness brought by sports.
The sport of darts, which is not limited by venue and can be easily mastered by people of all ages and genders, has been highly sought after by citizens in recent years. On that day, within the venue of the Shanghai Dart Sports Association, beautiful curves were visible. During the experience week, the social sports instructor of the dart project will carry out the popularization, publicity, and promotion of the dart project to the citizens, and provide scientific fitness guidance and experience activities for darts. It is expected that nearly a thousand citizens will experience the charm of dart sports.
Build a fitness brand around the people. The 7th Shanghai Community Sports "One Street, One Product" Exhibition Competition of the "Industrial Bank Cup" Shanghai Urban Amateur League in 2023 was held at the Songjiang Sports Center. This exhibition competition consists of 15 teams from 14 districts in the city, with a rich and colorful content. It includes sports intangible cultural heritage projects such as Sanlin Longshi in Pudong New Area and Zhelin Rolling Lantern in Fengxian District, as well as slingshot gymnastics, row dance, flat drum, lotus dance, and cheerleading created by mass teams. There are also popular sports such as diabolo, softball, colorful scarf gymnastics, and Mulan boxing. While reflecting "one street, one taste, one street, one characteristic, and one street, one culture", it further promotes national spirit, inherits traditional culture, and continuously explores and innovates.
The Shanghai Community Fitness Guidance Volunteer Service Team is a community based, community focused, and community service sports guidance volunteer service team initiated and established by the Shanghai Community Sports Association in 2015. Its members include professional coaches, teachers, and referees from various sports associations and universities in the city, as well as fitness coaches with professional sports qualifications from related enterprises. Currently, there are more than 600 sports professionals active in 215 streets and towns in Shanghai, providing free fitness skills training, scientific fitness lectures, youth sports training, and science lecture halls for citizens. It innovatively carries out "click me send" public sports service community delivery, playing an important role in the city's fitness guidance course delivery service system and continuously meeting the scientific fitness needs of citizens.
The Shanghai Square Dance Volunteer Service Team is composed of 12 experts from the Square Dance Professional Committee of the Shanghai Community Sports Association and 157 outstanding square dance coaches. Every year, 2-3 sets of square dance routines are created, and a series of community square dance competitions are held throughout the city. This provides comprehensive guidance and training for over 1000 square dance teams and enthusiasts in Shanghai's streets and towns.
During the theme event of "National Fitness Day · Sports Promotion Week" in Shanghai in 2023, the city and district will carry out nearly 50 sports promotion and cultural activities, as well as more than 260 national fitness events. It is worth mentioning that on the evening of the first day of Sports Promotion Week on August 7th, the glass curtain wall on the exterior of the Window of the Bund City building lit up slogans related to "National Fitness Day · Sports Promotion Week", further illuminating the fitness enthusiasm of the citizens of Shanghai.
