In the land of Longjiang, every cold winter, hot morning, or twilight, hundreds of thousands of people exercising in squares and parks around the world, playing tai chi and dancing square dances. Among them, many silver hairs are full of heads but have a healthy posture, and the vitality of life is full of life between dances... This is a testimony to the vigorous development of mass sports in Heilongjiang Province.
"Since 2009, Heilongjiang Province has accumulated 13 years of accumulation and innovation, and only then has the vitality today." Li Feng said. In 2009, Heilongjiang Province implemented the National Fitness Regulations and the Outline of the National Fitness Program. Since 2011, the mainland's "National Fitness Plan" has been introduced, and mass sports have become an important part of Longjiang's sports work. Li Feng, then deputy director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau, has been responsible for participating in the planning of mass sports in Longjiang for many years, so that the longjiang mass sports cause can flourish and benefit the people
"Fitness for all? Good thing! ”
"My love of sport has never changed since I was 18 years old." Li Feng said. Li Feng, a native of Baiquan County, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, entered the Aviation Sports School (Amateur Gliding School) in 1976 and has been dealing with sports and sports for decades since he became a gliding military athlete.
"After the 2008 Olympic Games, the mass sports boom gradually began, and I heard about national fitness. Good thing. Li Feng said.
In 2010, Heilongjiang Province began to hold the province's first national fitness games, in order to let more people go out of the house and participate in fitness activities, this national fitness games through careful top-level design, set as provincial, municipal and county three-level linkage.
"The enthusiasm of everyone to participate is very high, you go to the county to watch, the county-level competition, plus the audience has reached 10,000 people to participate, one team after another morning and evening to practice square dance, fitness exercises, tai chi, tai chi sword, are very spectacular." Li Feng recalled.
This is a huge sports event with a time span of 6 months for the whole people to participate, so that the theme slogan of "strengthening the body and vitality of Longjiang" permeates every county and every township in Longjiang. In this National Fitness Games alone, the number of people directly participating in the competition reached 350,000, and the number of people indirectly affected and driven by more than 10 million people.
In this way, the national fitness activities are steaming all over the land of Longjiang.
In 2016, the State Council issued the Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Sports Industry and Promoting Sports Consumption, which accelerated the reform of the management system for mass sports events.
The Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau has cancelled the examination and approval of commercial and mass sports events, and improved the supervision measures for the sports competition market during and after the event, which has further stimulated the socialization of sports activities, provided a more effective service platform for the social forces that host events, and lowered the threshold for social forces to run competitions.
At the same time, the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau has funded some sports associations to organize competitions through the purchase of services by the government. Through the separation of "management and office", the right to host and operate the event was handed over to the sports community organization, which greatly stimulated the vitality of the sports community organization. For a time, mass sports competitions held by various associations sprung up like mushrooms, which greatly promoted the national fitness movement.
"Happy Dance Steps" Drives the National "Happiness Index"
Sport for all is a process that socializes sport and benefits everyone. Over the years, Heilongjiang Province has been advocating the concept of scientific fitness for the masses and popularizing fitness projects that the masses like to hear.
"If you want more people to go out of the house and jump up every day, a good project will have a great driving effect." Take square dance, the movement can not be too difficult, to be easy to learn, most people can learn, but also have a sense of movement, a variety of movements, can achieve the purpose of exercising the arms, legs and other whole body. Li Feng said.
In 2010, after the Heilongjiang Provincial National Fitness Games, the "Happy Dance Steps" created by Jiamusi City was promoted by the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau in the province because it was easy to learn and had a good sense of rhythm, and also held a provincial, municipal and county three-level linkage happy dance square dance competition. Soon, the happy dance steps spread throughout the urban and rural parks and small squares, and the number of people participating in the exercise reached one million people.
A small set of aerobics will contain the big concept of scientific fitness.
This set of gymnastics was compiled in 2008 by a local retired elderly man who was inspired by the twisting song. He himself jumped while exercising in the city of Jiamusi, and he did not expect many people to jump with him. After that, Jiamusi City organized relevant departments and experts to improve this set of aerobics, and also accompanied by music, forming a full set of aerobics in the march, each time for 30 minutes. In the jump exercise, the shoulders, neck, waist, knees, ankles and other joints of the person can be moved, and then it is integrated into broadcast gymnastics, walking, dance and traditional health.
Li Feng said that in 2015, the "Happy Dance Step" fitness exercise was officially listed by the State General Administration of Sports as one of the twelve sets of square dances promoted nationwide, promoted to the whole country and swept the country. After dinner, many cities in China presented the scene of "happy dance steps" dancing in unison.
As soon as the music sounds, the footsteps take a step, and the energy of happiness begins to spread outward... This is the charm of sports, and between the movements of the body, happiness rises from people's hearts.
More than ten years of "ice and snow" from "niche" to "everyday"
"Play slippery, build snow dolls, ice car slide will not go home..." The song "Winter in the Northeast" sings the real scene of winter in Heilongjiang Province.
Heilongjiang Province is a big and strong province of ice and snow sports in the mainland, and is also one of the birthplaces of ice and snow sports on the mainland. Heilongjiang winter national fitness activities can not be separated from the ice and snow, in the ice and snow, children play in the heat, crystal clear ice surface is Heilongjiang winter children's paradise.
Compared with the current winter ice skating everywhere, many snow fields open to the public, more than a decade ago, Heilongjiang Province did not have a snow field open to the public, skiing is still a professional competitive competition.
"After the Asian Winter Games in 1996, I felt that people longed for skiing and eager to ski, so we exploratorily built a pistes open to the public in Yabuli, which was a completely innovative attempt at the time, and I didn't expect it to be very popular with the market." Li Feng recalled.
After the 1996 Asian Winter Games, the Games were almost like a big leap forward in popularizing ice and snow sports to the public, and many people felt the fun and charm of ice and snow sports through this Games. But at that time, there was no private snow field in Heilongjiang, and yabuli ski resort was only a training base for professional athletes, not open to the public.
Li Feng was the director of Yabuli Ski Resort at that time, he saw people's desire and enthusiasm for ice and snow sports, so he boldly tried it, and together with his colleagues, in the way of "people backing the snow", piled up a "small slope" on the side of Yabuli for beginner skiers to ski. Unexpectedly, just such a snow track attracted a large number of people to ski, which is also the first time in the mainland, with a ski resort open to the public, opened the mainland skiing to the public, gradually marketization process, in the development of the mainland public skiing, is a pioneering attempt, very meaningful.
After more than ten years of accumulation, there is now a grand situation of "300 million people participating in ice and snow sports", so that Heilongjiang's "ice and snow" has become a daily routine in winter.
In the winter, Olympic champions and star national players often "parachute" into national fitness activities, personally demonstrate, teach skating, teach skiing, teach curling, etc., creating many unexpected surprises for Heilongjiang winter national fitness activities
Use star resources to drive ice and snow sports
In the winter of 2016, Zhang Hong, the speed skating champion of the Sochi Winter Olympics, taught more than 200 ice skaters at the speed skating hall of the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Base and guided Xiaoice fans. In order to see the speed skating stars, the five uncles set off from Acheng at dawn and rushed to the ice city to "chase the stars".
Wang Manli is a famous speed skater in the mainland, a flag figure in the mainland speed skating industry, a top master in the world, a world champion who has won the world championship many times, and has won the honor of "Golden Ice Knife" of the International Skating Federation. At the scene of the national fitness activity in Heilongjiang in winter, the speed skating star also re-emerged from the jianghu and gave a "world-class" speed skating lesson to small speed skating enthusiasts.
In the "2014-2015 Ice Fun Snow Story" winter national fitness series activities, Chen Xiujing, the enlightenment coach of Winter Olympic champion Shen Xue, also came to the ice rink to interact with skating enthusiasts.
Former curling national players Wang Binjiang, Wang Haicheng, Cao Yilun and Lu Chunyu also personally taught curling enthusiasts to curl in the "National Hand Teaches You to Curl" activity. The national team players teach curling, which makes Xu Decheng, a citizen of Harbin, very excited. He said, "I've only been watching curling games on TV and haven't played them, but this time I finally had the opportunity to try it, or I was very excited about my professional curling national hand coach."
So far, Heilongjiang has carried out millions of youth ice and snow activities for 43 consecutive years, and there must be more than 100 ice and snow activities every year, making Heilongjiang Province the core area of national ice and snow mass sports activities and becoming the main force of "300 million people participating in ice and snow sports" in the country
The "Extreme" campaign attracts enthusiasts across the country
"'Green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, and ice and snow are also golden mountains and silver mountains', I feel that this is too close to the summer and winter in Heilongjiang." Li Feng said.
Heilongjiang is the northernmost province of the mainland, every year in summer and autumn the climate is pleasant, as a mainland ecological demonstration province, here has 220,000 square kilometers of forests, as well as a large number of lakes, wetlands, water systems, showing the "Great Boundary River", "Great Boundary Lake", "Great Forest", "Big Ice and Snow" and other unique scenery, for the development of some international sports activities to provide favorable resource advantages.
In the mass sports "Healthy Longjiang Action", combined with Heilongjiang's unique natural resource advantages, it is also a major focus to create some extreme mass brand events.
"We take the opportunity of holding these mass sports activities to improve the international popularity of these unique ecological resources of Heilongjiang, so that more people know about Heilongjiang and fall in love with Heilongjiang." Li Feng said.
Mohe Ice and Snow Car Off-Road Rally, Songhuajiang International Automobile Challenge, Heilongjiang Cross Xingkai Lake Series Activities, Qiqihar Camping Conference, Yichun Tangwang River Rafting, Re-walking Anti-Lianhe Snow Mountain Crossing Race... Since 2004, the "Mohe Ice and Snow Automobile Rally" has been carried out, and since 2007, Heilongjiang Province has successively carried out the "China-Russia Ice and Snow Automobile Championship", and these activities have expanded year by year from the scale of the competition to the number of participants, and have achieved good social repercussions.
On July 8, 2014, the "Year of Friendship and Exchange between China and Russia for Youth" China Heilongjiang - Russia Baikal Car Self-driving Tour Rally kicked off in Harbin, and 72 drivers of 22 Chinese cars crossed the Border line of Heilongjiang, passing through Vyshchensk, the capital of Amur Oblast, Chita, and Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, to Lake Baikal in Irkutsk, the capital of Irkutsk Oblast. The whole event lasted 16 days and the total course was more than 7,000 kilometers. During this period, auto obstacle races, auto straight-line acceleration races, and auto orienteering races were also held, and such long-distance self-driving activities attracted self-driving enthusiasts from all over the country to Heilongjiang, and also deepened and consolidated the development of non-governmental sports exchange activities between China and Russia.
From August 17 to August 21, 2014, Heilongjiang Province held the "Sino-Russian Sun Island - Black Blind Island Rubber Boat Rally". The 10 participating boats of China and Russia departed from Harbin Sun Island, passed through the Songhua River and parts of the Heilongjiang River, and finally reached the black blind island as the end, a 900-kilometer race, which was also the first rubber boat rally between China and Russia on the Boundary River. In 2015, the Sino-Russian Boundary River Rubber Boat Challenge was held again. The Chinese and Russian runners departed from Mohe, which lasted 11 days and traveled nearly 2,000 kilometers, reaching the end point of Fuyuan Black Blind Island. This is another international sports project created by the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau on the Heilongjiang River on the border between China and Russia after the bipolar ice and snow car rally.
In 2016, Heilongjiang Province held a pioneering international hiking conference to cross the big and small Xing'anling Healthy Parent-Child Walk, 143 Chinese and Russian families set off from Harbin, passing through the Daxing'anling Jagdaqi Baiquan Valley Tiantai Mountain, Heihe Aihui District Shengshan National Nature Reserve, Yichun Taoshan Forestry Bureau Hanging Sheep Peak National Geopark three stages, the journey reached more than 2100 kilometers, the participants of China and Russia were intoxicated in the beauty of the Heilongjiang Great Forest.
In 2013, Heilongjiang Province also hosted the China Huaxia East Pole Fuyuan - Shenzhou Arctic Mohe Ice and Snow Car Challenge. The competition was held on the Heilongjiang River, the border between China and Russia, starting from the Dongji Square of Fuyuan Black Blind Island, the easternmost point of the motherland, passing through Tongjiang, Luobei, Jiayin, Sunke, Heihe, Huma and other counties and cities, and ending at the Arctic Village of Mohe County, the northernmost point of the motherland.
"Over the years, organizing these activities, I have been very touched. In the ice and snow car challenge, a couple of liaoning tieling participants, in the process of self-driving, held a bag, consciously picked up garbage all the way, and cared for the environment, which was very touching. There is also a big brother in Xi'an to drive a Hummer to participate in self-driving activities, to this day is too cold, Hummer's battery is not OK, he wants to participate in ice and snow self-driving activities too much, directly to Harbin 4S shop brushed a Land Rover, the whole process of running, really domineering. Li Feng talked about the memories of these years of activities, very emotional.
Today, the Mohe Ice and Snow Auto Off-Road Race and the Songhuajiang International Auto Challenge have become the traditional international brand events in Heilongjiang Province.
In November 2011, at the China Sports Tourism Development Forum held in Haikou, the China Heilongjiang Snow Mountain Crossing Open, the Heilongjiang Station of the National Camping Competition, and the China Yichun International Natural Water Rafting Competition were selected into the list of China's sports tourism boutique events, contributing to the development of sports tourism and publicizing the natural resources of Heilongjiang Province
The love of sports has never changed
"My love of sport has never changed since I was 18 years old." Li Feng said.
Li Feng deeply understands the charm of sports, and no kind of activity can attract many people as strongly as sports activities, making people excited and jubilant. In physical exercise, people release the yearning for a better life, blooming with moving vitality, these are the charm of mass sports to people, so that people in sports, strengthen their bodies, make themselves healthier, more confident, full of more love for life.
As a generation of veteran sports people in Heilongjiang Province, Li Feng has been contributing to sports from entering the Aviation Sports School (amateur gliding school) in 1976, from a gliding student staying in school to serving as the deputy director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau, and then becoming the chairman of the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Association for the Elderly after retirement.
At this time, in the land of Longjiang and the world of ice and snow, hundreds of thousands of people are happily playing ice and snow, enjoying the beauty and happiness brought by sports in life.
Author: Nina Wang