On the evening of October 8, the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou will come to an end. Under the concept of “green, intelligent, thrifty and civilized”, the 16-day event fully demonstrated the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture, exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations, and the charm of competitive sports, and presented a sports event with “Chinese characteristics, Asian style and splendor” to the world.
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Inherit and develop the Chinese characteristics of the competition
Over the years, China has accumulated, summarized and formed a set of experience in organizing competitions with “Chinese characteristics” by holding a series of world comprehensive sports events such as the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. The concept of “green, intelligent, thrifty and civilized” of the Hangzhou Asian Games is the extension and development of the experience of “Chinese characteristics”.
Taking “green” and “thrifty” as examples, this is the first issue that the organizing committee needs to consider when holding any large-scale comprehensive sports event. The Hangzhou Asian Games firmly grasped the “green” and “thrifty” barriers in the venue planning stage. Of the 56 competition venues, 44 are rebuilt or temporarily built, and only 12 are newly built. The 31 training venues are all renovated by using the existing or planned venues, which are basically the existing venues of colleges and universities or the existing sports facilities in the “13th Five-Year Plan”, so as to avoid the situation that the venues are vacant or unmanned after the games.
In the design and construction phase of the venue, “green” and “frugal” are equally ubiquitous. “The rainwater harvesting system on the roof of the Fuyang Water Sports Center can save 35% of water per month, saving an average of about 1,000 tons per day. The gymnasium, natatorium, and Lin’an Cultural and Sports Convention and Exhibition Center of Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center use the light guide non-electric lighting system as daily lighting, and the annual lighting energy saving can reach 30%. Qiu Peihuang, director of the venue construction department of the Hangzhou Asian Organizing Committee, said, “In terms of construction, the Asian Games venues give priority to the use of green building materials, green treatment of construction waste, and reduce the use of building materials and energy as much as possible.” For example, Ningbo Asia Sailing Center used 760,000 cubic meters of stone generated by the land blasting project for the construction of sea breakwaters. The renovation of Huanglong Sports Center in Zhejiang Province crushes and automatically sorts construction waste as a raw material for construction. ”
Exchanges and mutual learning show the style of Asia
How can a city show its broad and profound Chinese culture through a sports event? The Hangzhou Asian Games has played its own role this time. In addition to the impressive opening ceremony, the Hangzhou Asian Games also fully reflected the humanistic beauty of Hangzhou, showing the characteristics of Jiangnan and the vitality of the times in representative elements such as the torch “Torch”, the emblem “Chaoyong”, the Asian Games medal “Hushan” and the mascot of the Hangzhou Asian Games “Jiangnan Memories”.
“The Asian Games is a sports and cultural event in Asia, and we have launched 100 Asian Games tourism routes around the main line of ‘watching the Asian Games and visiting Hangzhou’. At the same time, we have launched 50 Asian Games cultural experience points. Guo Qingye, deputy commander of the Asian Games Transportation and Protection Headquarters and head of the city tourism working group, said, “The routes and points cover the three major world heritage sites in Hangzhou, experience the intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and also include some well-known scenic spots, living arts, intelligent manufacturing, etc.” ”
In the Athletes’ Village, the Technical Officials’ Village and the Media Village, the Hangzhou Asian Games have all set up cultural houses to display intangible cultural heritage, involving more than 40 intangible cultural heritage items. Traditional in China.On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Asian Games Village, the main media center, and the official reception hotel were carefully arranged, and you can see the moon, moon rabbit, osmanthus tree and other Mid-Autumn Festival cultural elements everywhere. The organizing committee also planned a wealth of Mid-Autumn Festival cultural activities, including evening parties, cultural special sessions, interactive games, and intangible cultural heritage experiences.
While allowing all participants of the Asian Games to feel the strong Chinese culture, the Hangzhou Asian Games has also set up special sports programs that represent the people of various regions of Asia in accordance with the relevant regulations and competition practices of the Olympic Council of Asia. “Among the 40 major events of this year’s Hangzhou Asian Games, in addition to 31 competition events set with reference to the next Paris Olympic Games, 9 non-Olympic events are also set, which is also one of the important symbols that distinguish the Asian Games from the Olympic Games. Zhu Qinan, spokesman for the Hangzhou Asian Games Competition Command Center, said, “In the nine non-Olympic sports, we not only set up special sports such as martial arts, rattan ball, cricket, jiu-jitsu and jiu-jitsu, but also set up skateboarding, rock climbing, squash and intellectual sports and other emerging sports that are popular with young people, and strive to meet the needs of different regions, different cultural backgrounds and different age groups.” ”
The Asian Games competition is wonderful
The core content of a sports meeting is competitive competition. The Hangzhou Asian Games is the Asian Games with the largest number of events, the largest number of participants, and the most difficult competition organization in history. From September 19th to October 8th, the Hangzhou Asian Games has produced 481 gold medals, athletes from 27 countries and regions have won gold medals, athletes from 41 countries and regions have reached the podium, and a total of 15 world records, 28 Asian records, and more than 150 Games records have been broken.
As the host, the Chinese Asian Games delegation has been at the top of the gold medal list since the 1982 New Delhi Asian Games, and has exceeded 100 gold medals each time since the 1990 Beijing Asian Games. At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, the total number of gold medals won by the Chinese Asian Games delegation reached an astonishing 199. In this year’s Hangzhou Asian Games, the Chinese sports delegation won a total of 201 gold, 111 silver, and 71 bronze medals, a total of 383 medals, not only leading the gold medal list and medal list without suspense, but also setting a record high in the number of gold medals.
The wonderful competitive competition coupled with the outstanding performance of Chinese athletes will naturally arouse the audience’s popularity. In addition, the Asian Games coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day, which also brought more spectators to the Hangzhou Asian Games. As of the morning of October 7, more than 3.05 million tickets were sold for the Hangzhou Asian Games, and the ticket revenue exceeded 6.100 million yuan. “We calculated the number of tickets sold and the number of spectators who entered the venue, and the proportion was more than 92%. Mao Genhong, the main spokesman of the Hangzhou Asian Games, said, “The day with the most spectators was October 1, with 290,000 spectators, and the other competition days lasted for more than 200,000 people.” ”
The wonderful holding of the Hangzhou Asian Games has provided a “platform”, “opportunity” and “boost” for the local sports industry, which is also reflected in the event economy. “Because a city will leave a lot of ‘legacy’ after such a super-large-scale and ultra-long event as the Asian Games, and the stadiums left behind in terms of hardware can not only host the games, but also benefit the people. “In the ‘post-Asian Games’ era, we have also identified some events that will be held in Hangzhou. Hangzhou’s popularity as a ‘city of games’ and its share in other event economies will also have a magnifying effect, continuously promoting and driving the development of service industries related to the sports industry and sports economy. ”