On September 6, a press conference on the theme of the torch relay of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou was held in Hangzhou, at which it was announced that more than 2,000 torchbearers, including Fan Zhendong and Wang Shun, would participate in the Asian Games torch relay from September 8 to 20.
Du Zuofeng, deputy commander of the Hangzhou Asian Games Torch Relay Command Center, introduced that the launching ceremony of the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games torch relay will be held in Hangzhou West Lake Yongjin Park Square on the morning of September 8. After that, the torch of the Hangzhou Asian Games will be passed in Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Lishui, Jinhua and Quzhou, and will return to Hangzhou on September 20 and complete the last leg of the relay.
The Hangzhou Asian Games Torch Relay continued the theme slogan of “Heart-to-Heart, @未来”, and more than 2,000 torchbearers will participate in the whole process. The selection of torchbearers for the Hangzhou Asian Games is mainly open to the Olympic Council of Asia and other Asian national (regional) Olympic Committees, the Chinese Olympic Committee, the Hangzhou Asian Organizing Committee, cities in Zhejiang Province and Hangzhou Asian Games sponsors. The torchbearers were mainly selected through the recommendation of the organization and publicized by the local system and 30 torchbearers were selected by lottery through the online “Race to be the Asian Games Torchbearer” theme activity.
The torchbearers of the Hangzhou Asian Games include outstanding athletes, coaches and other sports workers, models of the times, loyal guards, moral models, model workers, “the most beautiful people” and other advanced representatives in various fields, and outstanding contributors to the Hangzhou Asian Games. The youngest of the torchbearers was 14 years old, the oldest was 84 years old, and there were 732 female delegates, 1,219 grassroots frontline delegates, 1,069 advanced and exemplary figures, 275 sports worker delegates, and a certain number of representatives of ethnic minorities, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots and representatives of the disabled served as torchbearers.
Among the torchbearers were badminton world champions Chen Yufei and Wang Yilu, swimming world champions Wang Shun and Ye Shiwen, and table tennis world champion Fan Zhendong; Xu Chuanzi, representative of national model workers and leader of the State Grid Service Development Team, Zhu Shijie, head of Ningbo Zhoushan Port Bridge Crane Team, as well as industry leaders, such as academician Shi Yigong of Westlake University, representative of the academic community, Daniel Zhang, representative of the digital economy, and Ning Xiaolin, representative of the Zero Magnetic Medical Technology Innovation Center of the scientific and technological community; Yu Fuling, Secretary of the Joint Party Committee of the Baizhang Party Building Comprehensive Demonstration Zone in Yinzhou District, Cui Yiwen, the “Knife Girl”, Wu Juping, the “Most Beautiful Mother”, and Peng Qinglin, the courier brother who jumped into the river to save people, etc., including Zhang Jigui, a national exemplary model worker and craftsman talent, Lu Yicong, who has grown from a first-line assembly apprentice to a “great country craftsman”, Sui Yongfeng, who has been engaged in the independent research and development of “national heavy equipment” gas turbines and industrial steam turbines for a long time, breaking the international monopoly, and Nie Fengge, a promoter of green, low-carbon and ecological restoration.
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Du Zuofeng said that the torch of the Hangzhou Asian Games has passed the indoor rotating wind, 8 strong wind and strong wind field, 10 strong wind small wind field, outdoor seaside, typhoon, heavy rain, mountain, corner wind and other scene tests, a total of 3,000 rod tests, the torch can be lit under 300mm/h rainfall, and the combustion will not be extinguished. Combined with the technological innovation point, on the basis of the main structure of the double burner, the invention technology such as double jet mixing, direct flame stabilization, dense cluster net combustion, large-hole diversion rainproof, and concentrating windproof technology is used to achieve stronger windproof and rainproof performance of the Asian Games torch.