Nantong, Jiangsu: playing the "sports township" high-quality development of the marching song

Sports is not only the meaning of national strength, but also an important part of people's healthy and happy life. Last year, Nantong became the province's only selected “national Olympic reserve talent echelon” co-built city, per capita sports area of more than the provincial average, the successful organization of the Nantong Marathon, Haohe River Dragon Boat Race, the National Standard Dance Competition, the CBA League, China - ASEAN Wushu Competition and other large-scale events! ...... one year, Nantong mass sports, competitive sports, sports industry go hand in hand, not only played the “concerto” of sports development, but also the realization of the dream of a strong sports country contributed to the power of Nantong.

Live up to the spring light to take a good start, and then start again with a sense of solidarity. At the beginning of the Year of the Snake, Nantong held two sports symposiums, clear vigorously promote the construction of sports city, further improve the public service system of national fitness, enhance the comprehensive strength of competitive sports, expanding the supply of multi-level sports products and services, and strive to transform the blueprint for sports development into a tangible initiative.

Chinese Fencers Shine on the Field
In the Women's Fencing World Cup Team Competition in Barcelona, China's women's fencing team won a silver medal in February. As a member of the team, Shi Yuexin, a fencer from Nantong Sports School, won wide acclaim for her outstanding performance. As a full-time secondary sports professional school established in the 1980s, the school has delivered more than 1,000 excellent sports reserve talents to the national team, provincial outstanding sports teams, the People's Liberation Army and high-level sports teams of colleges and universities. Zhang Jieyun, attentive, Zhang Xi, Zhongman, Ding Yiliang and other world champions and a large number of national champions are from the school. At present, the school is responsible for the training and teaching of 18 sports such as track and field, three major balls and other cultural teaching tasks.

Nantong is known as “the hometown of sports” and “the cradle of world champions”. Nantong has trained 24 world champions and won 109 gold medals in the World Championships, making positive contributions to the construction of a strong sports nation.

Shi Yuqi won the Thomas Cup Badminton Championships again, Yang Hua won the 78th IFBB World Fitness and Bodybuilding Championships, Xu Nuo and Wu Mengjie won the Paris Olympics, 6 Nantong athletes won 9 gold medals in the World and Asian Youth Competitions, 25 Nantong athletes won 27 gold medals in the National Competitions, and 78.5 gold medals in the Provincial Championships... ...2024, Nantong athletes delivered a beautiful “answer sheet”.

Nantong athletes to climb the peak, for the country to win, can not be separated from Nantong on competitive sports reserve talent attention and training. Nantong to strengthen the city and county sports school construction, deepen the integration of physical education, vigorously attract high-level talent, and continue to polish the “cradle of the world champion” of the gold standard. Last year, Nantong set up a sports school alliance, signed a cooperation agreement with nine grassroots elementary school, and co-organized with three junior sports schools. The city conducted nearly 1,000 competitions in various programs, with more than 50,000 teachers and students participating. Children's gymnasiums and sports schools were recognized as “national high-level training bases”.

Last December, Nantong became the province's only “national Olympic reserve talent echelon” co-built city, the country only Baoding, Wenzhou, Anhua, Nantong four cities selected.

“The choice of Nantong as a co-built city, this is the State General Administration of Sports of Nantong sports achievements fully recognized, but also our sports career quality development of a brand new start.” Jiang Hua, director of the Nantong Sports Bureau, said that he will establish a sound system for cultivating competitive sports talents, study and formulate support policies for talent cultivation, and cultivate and transport more excellent sports talents for the country.

Enjoy the happiness of sports at home

“Welcome Asian Winter Games” torch passing ceremony solemn and warm, social sports instructors for the public to send ‘ball skills’, 8 elite table tennis team competing in the same field ......2 the afternoon of February 10, the Located in Chongchuan District, the North Wing Nine Nine Sports Complex is bustling with activity. The original is the Nantong City Sports Bureau in this organized “welcome Asian Winter Games, the national ball into the park, ping pong haunted the Lantern Festival” activities.

This year, Nantong Sports Bureau fully implemented the project of “National Ball in the Park” to provide high-quality fitness facilities for the general public, make the national ball game closer to the public's life, and further stimulate the enthusiasm for national fitness. As one of the results of the project, 16 brand-new table tennis tables have been installed in the North Wing Nine Nine Sports Complex, allowing national ball enthusiasts to enjoy the joy of sports at their doorsteps.

“At present we are in full swing to carry out athlete recruitment and team formation work.” Ding Tao, president of the Nantong Rowing Association, told reporters that the association was just established in January this year, the office is located in the North Wing Nine Nine Sports Complex. In the future, it will strengthen the contact with Shanghai, Yangtze River Delta, Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao Rowing Association of the Greater Bay Area, and actively develop local rowing, create Nantong Lake IP well-known events.

The foundation of a strong sports nation lies in mass sports. In recent years, Nantong sports work adhere to the people-centered, and constantly improve the level of national fitness facilities construction, and continue to increase the construction of sports parks, “embedded” fitness stadiums, fitness trails.

Nantong Sports Park by Haohe River carries the urban memory of several generations. After the reconstruction, there are a number of comprehensive Fitness Equipment area and wide fitness plaza, fitness trail linking up the new scene of urban life. Ms. Wang, who lives in Chengnan Xincun, said with a smile, “Every day after dinner, I take my children for a walk here, and the old people do square dancing, which is quite convenient. Every day is very lively.”

Changgang Bridge Sports Park in Nantong Economic and Technological Development Zone has soccer, basketball, table tennis, badminton, tennis, gateball, baseball and other venues as well as intelligent fitness paths and children's playgrounds. Haimen Sports Park has five functional areas including parent-child interaction, ecological leisure and fitness activities. Qidong Butterfly Lake Sports Park with soccer, basketball, badminton, tennis, extreme sports, water projects, etc., to become the local national fitness facilities highlights of the project ...... in Nantong, multi-faceted fitness venues blossomed, the people at home to achieve the “freedom of movement”.

So far, Nantong has built all kinds of sports parks more than 150, fitness stadiums more than 4,000, more than 4,500 kilometers of fitness trails. “This year, we will build 60 new fitness courts for the public, 400 new table tennis tables, new purchase of 1500 pieces of fitness equipment, plans to build five new integrated sports parks in Chongchuan District, Innovation District, Tongzhou Bay, Development Zone and other places, to further create a new scene of fitness for all.” Xu Feng, Director of Group Division of Nantong Sports Bureau, said.

Sports industry bursts with new vigor

“The Wenyu River Sports Park project built by our company in Beijing is nearing completion. It has a new sports area of 6,000 square meters, including intelligent fitness stations, intelligent second-generation paths, aluminum and wood fitness paths, strength fitness equipment, chess and card tables, children's play facilities, AI interactive big screen, racing rides, light and shadow trails and related sports supporting facilities.” On February 12, Huang Chengbin, chairman of Nantong Ironman Sporting Goods Co. said with a smile.

Nantong Ironman is one of the leading enterprises in Nantong sports industry, with more than 500 national patents. With the technical advantages, the products are sold well in more than 80 countries and regions in the world, such as America and Europe, which makes “Made in Nantong” go to the world. This is a microcosm of the vigorous development of Nantong sports industry.

As a new highlight of national economic development and an important force for economic transformation and upgrading, sports industry is an important foundation to support the high-quality development of sports in the new era. Nantong actively provides services for more than 2500 sporting goods production and trade enterprises, event operation enterprises, fitness venues, etc. The scale of the sports industry has been expanding, and the total scale of the sports industry last year amounted to 47.366 billion yuan, ranking fourth in the province, with the added value of the sports industry amounting to 17.341 billion yuan.

With good service, the sports industry is becoming more and more prosperous. Jiangsu Ironman, Miaojiang Sports, Changzhou has a number of sports service-oriented enterprises settled in Nantong. Rudong County, the new store town sports industrial park gathered more than 10 fitness equipment manufacturers, foreign trade export deliveries ranked first in East China; Merida (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. annual production capacity of nearly 300,000 bicycles; Jiangsu Yaozhan sporting goods company's comprehensive strength of the world's leading ...... At present, Nantong cultivate fitness equipment manufacturers with the right to self-management of exports nearly At present, Nantong has cultivated nearly 500 fitness equipment manufacturers with self-managed export rights, injecting new vitality for economic development.

Nantong has built the brand of “Nantong is invited to travel with the tournament” with passion, so that the tournament flow becomes the industrial increment. Over the past year, Nantong has hosted nearly 150 international, national and provincial large-scale events such as international sand volleyball, international cycling, and world Go tournaments, and organized more than 100 municipal consumption promotion events, with nearly one million people participating. Every home game of Zhiyun Super League, more than 300 hotels around the full; Nantong Marathon, “Yangtze River Delta” Haohe Dragon Boat Race on-site audience reached 288,000 people, driving consumption of more than 200 million yuan.

On January 18th, Nantong e-sports industry ushered in an important moment - the signing ceremony of “Hero Shine, New Life Towards the Sea”, in which Hero JiuJing settled in Nantong-Haimen, was held. 

“The sports industry cannot be narrowly equated with the sports manufacturing industry, but in fact also includes the sports service industry, as well as the cross-cutting areas with other industries.” The symposium has clarified the ideas for the development of the sports industry. This year, Nantong will focus on promoting the integrated development of culture, sports and tourism, and adhere to the sports events as an important carrier to boost consumption, so that “culture and sports on the stage, the industry sings”, and constantly enrich the new practice of humanistic economics Nantong. Adhere to the integration of sports events and economic and social development, adhere to the integration of sports events in time and space, adhere to the integration of sports work in the breadth and depth of the integration of the development of Nantong continue to inject new momentum.