Original title: 2024 cross-strait college students basketball game starts in Putian, Fujian in August

BEIJING, Fuzhou, May 23 (Reporter Yan Xu) The reporter learned from the signing ceremony of the 2024 cross-strait college basketball game on May 23 that the game will be held in Putian, Fujian, from August 16 to 27.

According to the 2024 cross-strait college basketball tournament plan, 20 college teams from the mainland (including 2-3 college teams from Fujian Province) and Taiwan will be invited to participate in the tournament.

Chen Wandong, director of the Putian Municipal Bureau of Sports, said that he would take the opportunity of this cross-strait college basketball game to give full play to Putian's unique role and sports bridge function to promote exchanges between Fujian and Taiwan personnel, education and training, sports medicine and other fields.

Liu Yudong, president of Fujian Basketball Association, said that he expected his hometown Putian to build a platform for youth on both sides of the Taiwan Straits to connect their hearts, promote understanding and deepen friendship, show youth on both sides of the Taiwan Straits through basketball, and further promote cooperation and interaction between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits in economic, sports, cultural and other fields.

It is reported that the opening ceremony of the game will be held on August 16, when many basketball stars will be invited to the scene and kick off the game. The championship will be decided on August 27, and the night of the basketball carnival will also be held.

The cross-strait college basketball game was founded in 2006. As a traditional sports event of colleges and universities on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, the event has built a good platform for sports and cultural exchanges on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, and has become a business card for youth exchanges on both sides of the Straits.