By Rui Hu, EDITOR

On August 8, the 11th National Fitness Day in Chongqing offered a wide variety of fitness activities held in many districts and counties, with warm participation from the general public.

On that day morning, the 2019 National Fitness Day Opening Ceremony and Qigong Exchanges and Show in Hundred Cities and Thousand Villages was held on the city wall of the Tongyuan Gate, Yuzhong District. To celebrate it, hundreds of wushu lovers performed with kungfu fans, shadowboxed, practiced fitness qigong, and other traditional activities on the ancient city wall, presenting the charm of fitness and the citizens’ healthy lifestyle.

The 2019 Chongqing Open Water Swimming Competition was held in Huangshui Town, Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County, showing a race of speed and endurance with over 500 swimmers amid water waves. This conventional brand event was initiated in 2009, and this year, it has attracted 60 representative teams from 24 municipal departments and 36 districts/counties of Chongqing.

On the evening, 2019 Datianwan National Fitness Day series activities, sponsored by Administration of Sport of Chongqing and held by Datianwan National Fitness Center. Nearly a thousand runners from around Chongqing, wearing colorful clothes, took part in this enjoyable and exciting game in Datianwan Stadium. The competition consisted of the two-kilometer parent-child run and four-kilometer happy run, and some families even had all the members involved.

The events introduced above are merely parts of the whole picture about the vigorously-developed fitness event around Chongqing on that day. In recent years, the city has been striving to improve activities of this kind and encourage the public to participate. The National Fitness Month held this April alone has witnessed 1,055 related activities in all the districts and counties around Chongqing.

Besides, Chongqing plans to actively propel the construction of the 15-minute fitness circle in urban communities and build/upgrade a series of urban sports parks, public football fields, fitness plazas in villages and townships, route engineering in communities, multi-function sports fields, etc. Meanwhile, it has built a group of fitness sites in neighborhoods and village-level residential areas, thus facilitating livelihood projects.

Source: Chongqing Daily
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