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When sports events meet the "May Day" holiday, they collide with brilliant sparks. Watching competitions at home and traveling with them, wonderful events bring people joy in sports, promote national fitness, and help economic and social development.

In the past May Day holiday, many places held wonderful sports events, which enriched people's holiday life and reflected the vitality of economic and social development.

"Take the whole family to watch the game during the holiday"

Pull, cross, hit the goal... 13 year old Wang Nuoyi performed well at the 4th Beijing Open. It has become the norm for Wang Nuoyi's family to participate in and watch the competition during the holiday. The Beijing Ice Hockey Open attracted more than 2000 players from 114 teams at home and abroad to participate, and nearly 300 games gave ice hockey enthusiasts a feast of eyes. "We hope that by building an event platform, more and more people can enjoy and participate in it, so as to promote national fitness and the economic development of the event," said Kong Xianfei, director of the Beijing Social Sports Management Center.

In the Yinshawan Tourist Attraction, Kulun Banner, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the roar of motors resounded over the scenic spot, where the 2024 China Motorcycle Cross country Championship was held. The two-day race attracted more than 70 riders from home and abroad. The sponsor has upgraded the image of the track and the venue, with 18 curves and 15 obstacle points, so that the participants and spectators can enjoy themselves.

"Take the whole family to watch the game during the holiday." In the audience of the first "Qingyun Cup" Men's Basketball Super Hero Competition after the season in Qingyunpu District, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, Li Ming, a citizen, enthusiastically cheered for his favorite team and occasionally explained the game to his family. "The children like basketball and are very happy to come to the scene," said Li Ming.

"We also launched live online games, and as of the evening of May 6, more than 65000 people had watched online," said Ren Ping, director of the Education and Sports Bureau of Qingyunpu District, Nanchang City. It is reported that before and after the May Day holiday, Qingyunpu District has successively held national standard dance art festival, roller skating open competition, children's rope skipping competition and other activities.

Tang You Cup Badminton Match, "Village Supermarket", Community Games... During the May Day holiday, a variety of sports events were held across the river. Competitive sports and mass events added color to people's holiday life.

"Both competition and travel"

In recent years, "traveling with events" has become increasingly popular.

The sky is blue and the air is fresh. Zhu Xionglei, from Qujing City, Yunnan Province, feels extremely comfortable riding beside the Yilong Lake. During the May Day holiday, she came to Shiping County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture to participate in the 2024 Yilong Lake Cycling Open, and won the first place in the women's mountain bike open group. The total length of the race track is 38 kilometers, which is surrounded by the beautiful scenery of Yilong Lake, three islands, nine curves and seventy-two bays, providing a good race experience for more than 600 contestants. "It's both a competition and a trip. This trip to Yilong Lake impressed me deeply," said Zhu Xionglei.

It is reported that the fitness trail around the Yilong Lake has held bicycle invitational race, marathon race and other events, and has been rated as the elite route of sports tourism in Yunnan Province for three consecutive years.

On May 1, Liukeng Scenic Area, the "First Village for Thousands of Years" in Le'an County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, attracted more than 240 contestants from 24 college teams across the province to participate in the "Colorful Youth" Jiangxi Ancient Village Race. In the ancient camphor forest and along the Wujiang River, the contestants ran hard and the audience cheered enthusiastically. At the event site, there are interesting interactions such as color painting, fingerprint check-in, taking photos and punching cards, which add to the festival atmosphere.

This ancient village race connects two famous tourism resources, Liukeng Ancient Village, the "First Village in Ancient Times", and Niutian Ancient Zhanglin, the "First Ancient Zhanglin in China", through the ten mile Wujiang Runway, to create an 8-kilometer ancient village ancient Zhanglin ecological runway. Up to now, more than 10 village races have been held, attracting a large number of tourists, and becoming a shining card of local sports and tourism integration.

During the May Day holiday, the "East Zhejiang Tang Poetry Road" Shengzhou Landscape Challenge in 2024 will be held in Shengzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Nearly 2000 athletes will challenge themselves and experience the fun of sports in the green water and green mountains. The opening ceremony of the Triathlon is located in the small town of Yueju Opera, so people can feel the charm of Yueju Opera closely. According to statistics, during the event, nearly 5 million people watched the event online and offline, and the event related content also became a hot spot in social media, thus driving the development of the local tourism industry.

More and more exciting events not only meet people's sports needs, but also further release the surging vitality of the integration and development of cultural, sports and tourism.

"Transform event traffic into economic growth"

On May 1, Yangming · International Fishing Base in Shangyou County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province was sunny and sunny. The two-day China Shangyou Yangming International Leisure Fishing Invitational was held here. "After the competition, I also took my family to visit nearby Tianmu Hot Spring, Yangming Lake Scenic Area and other places." Wu Jin, a contestant from Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, threw his rod into the lake and said with a smile, "Fishing is not about fish, but about mountains and rivers. Shangyou has a very beautiful environment. No matter whether I win a place this time or not, I will come often in the future."

In recent years, Shangyou County has focused on building a tourism pattern with ecological leisure, outdoor sports and health tourism as the main body around the fish industry, which has not only launched the tourism brand of "Dream Water Town, Beautiful Shangyou", but also stimulated the new vitality of economic development.

"Sports events held on public holidays are becoming more and more popular, and everyone hopes to turn the event flow into economic growth," said Yang Xu, deputy director of Shiping County Education and Sports Bureau. According to statistics, this "May Day" holiday, Shiping County received more than 140000 tourists, with a total tourism income of 130 million yuan.

Every weekend, Cheng Li and her 10-year-old twin daughters from Wuhou District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province will come to the stadium to learn from each other. The 2024 Tangyou Cup match coincides with the "May Day" holiday, and Cheng Li is full of expectations

In March this year, the General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China announced the second batch of model cities (districts) and counties (cities and districts) for national sports and fitness, among which Chengdu was included. Park Night Running Team, Community Table Tennis Team, Greenway Cycling Team, Square Frisbee Riders... "famous competitions" drive "people's competitions". National fitness is booming in Chengdu, and sports enthusiasm is infecting more and more people.

In recent years, Chengdu has been building itself into a world famous city with high quality and striving to build a higher level public service system for national fitness. More than 6000 national fitness events such as the Greenway Fitness Games and Tianfu Greenway Parent Child Sports Season were held, more than 100 community sports corners were built, more than 200 new greenway fitness spaces were set up, and the city's public stadiums and gymnasiums were opened for free (or at a low price), benefiting more than 5 million people.

Nowadays, sports events are becoming a booster of urban development, helping economic and social development, and constantly improving the sense of gain and happiness of the masses.

(Our reporters Zhu Lei, Ji Fang, Wang Liang, Song Haoxin, Zhang Cheng, Wang Dan, Yang Yanfei and Zhang Chi participated in the writing)

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