Reporter: Zhang Wencheng, Intern: Guo Min
The Rio Olympics are now in full swing, and our eyes kept fully occupied with the incredible games. The sports have become a dominant global "language". Currently, 2016 Shanghai International Mass Sports Season, is being prepared for the public in Hongkou, where will welcome three major international competitions.
Learned from the District Sports Bureau, unlike in the past, this time, contracts have been made with the relevant organizations including sports associations, sport business companies, and clubs to host the three competitions, which changed the original single-wheel drive mode to the government, society and market three-wheel drive mode.
On September 3, as the highlight of the opening ceremony of the Shanghai International Mass Sports Season, the 2016 AIA Chinarun will be the first competition, bringing the phenomenon of the arts. Being the only event that runs along the cultural landscape roads in the city centre of Shanghai, the Chinarun has attracted over 4,000 participants from more than ten countries and regions around the world.
In addition to the Chinarun, the “Shanghai in Memory, Shanghai International Mass Orienteering Race” and “Sports Lottery Cup” Shanghai International Navigation Model Invitational Tournament will also be held in Hongkou in the three-month Shanghai international mass sports season.
Ten routines have been planned for the "Shanghai in Memory, Shanghai International Mass Orienteering Race" held on October 22, which will connect Hongkou landmarks including the Lu Xun Park, Aisi Children's Park, the Greenbelt on North Sichuan Road, Songhu Railway Jiangwan Station site, Chinwoo Stadium, and the Fourth Congress of the CCP site, showing the past and presenting the present of Hongkou. It is a "Hongkou Day Trip" going through the time and space. Over 5,000 participants are estimated to come.
The "Sports Lottery Cup" Shanghai International Navigation Model Invitational Tournament is going to be held on October 28 – 30 at the Shanghai Military Sports Club. The game is one game of the Shanghai International Mass Sports Season as well as one of the prominent projects of the "Greenland Group Cup" the 2nd Shanghai Public Games and 2016 Shanghai Sci-Tech and Sports Carnival Series Event. Over hundred world champions and world top six athletes from countries and regions from Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan region, Russia, Singapore, Austria, and Poland are invited.
An official of the District Sports Bureau expected that more people would participate in the event to learn the new trends in the development of the international sports and experience the charm of national sports. In addition to individual events, offline activities, like the sports forum and micro-film, will also be held.