Original title: 2024 Jiangsu Walking Activity Held in Changzhou

Worker's Daily - Huang Hongtao, reporter of China Industrial Network, Wu Wenlong, Yang Sujun, correspondent

On April 27, 2024 Walking in Jiangsu (Changzhou Station) and "Walking on the Grand Canal" national fitness public welfare activity was officially launched in Lanyue Bay Square, Wujin District.

Since the "Walking Vigorously in Jiangsu Large Public Welfare Sports Series" was held for the first time in 2016, it has developed into a popular public welfare sports brand activity of national fitness. Guided by Changzhou Municipal People's Government, Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau, Jiangsu Federation of Trade Unions, and co sponsored by Jiangsu Development Sports Foundation and Jiangsu Workers' Cultural and Sports Association, the event attracted more than 1500 enterprise employees and people from all walks of life who love sports and fitness, with the theme of "National Action, Walk in a Trillion City and Start Again".

The hiking team starts from Rangyue Bay Square, walks along the bank of West Taihu Lake, passes the Diding Road to the east, reaches the Rangyue Bay Bridge to the south, and arrives at the destination West Taihu International Camping Island. The whole journey is about 5 kilometers. Along the line, there are mass fitness performances such as cheerleading, fitness Qigong, intangible cultural heritage project display, creative punch points and other colorful contents, fully demonstrating Changzhou's local customs, natural scenery, intangible cultural heritage culture. Nearly 1000 employees of the enterprise advocate national fitness by walking briskly, fully demonstrating the positive spirit of workers.

In recent years, Changzhou has successively held a series of high-level sports events, such as the West Taihu Half Marathon, China Badminton Open, China Tennis Tour Changzhou Open, to promote the sports consumption industry chain with mass, public welfare, marketization and other types of sports fitness activities, to comprehensively display the city image and enhance the city value.

It is reported that "Walking Vigorously in Jiangsu Large Public Welfare Sports Series" will continue to be carried out throughout the province, making fitness more closely linked with daily life, giving people more sense of gain and happiness, and injecting strong energy into public welfare sports to promote the high-quality development of sports in our province and the new practice of Chinese style modernization in Jiangsu.