The snow was clear.
As the Beijing Winter Olympics draw closer, the Bashan Grand Canyon in Xuanhan County, Dazhou City, ushered in the first provincial snow orienteering competition of 2022. It was a fine weekend in mid-January, when Li Hui, 62, took his "Finder" team of five people from Chengdu and drove more than 550 kilometers to mulberry tree flats. Li Hui said that his 62-year-old boy took Yan Zi'er, a 7-year-old young player, to compete for only one purpose, that is, to help his little apprentice win another orienteering championship.
Sichuan-Chongqing Snow Orienteering Dazhou Station Competition Site
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Living up to expectations, on the evening of the 16th, Li Hui's circle of friends was full of praise and blessings. In this competition, Li Hui and Yan Zi'er, a pair of parent-child groups with the largest age difference and the largest height difference, won a total of 3 championships in the 100-meter orienteering, mid-distance race, and all-around award (total time ranking). At the same time, the "Discoverers" team also performed well in the young men's and adult women's categories.
As a veteran coach who has won the Asian Radio Direction Finding Championship, the National Radio Direction Finding Championship, the World Champion and countless National Radio Direction Finding Championships, Li Hui, who is over the age of flower armor, should have retired and raised his life, but he found his own value in the grand social significance of the "Sichuan Million Mass Sports Leader Project". Li Hui actively joined the leader lineup, saying that in his lifetime, he will devote himself to the education and training of youth sports, influence and lead more teenagers to advocate champions and heroes, and contribute to shaping and cultivating the builders of the new era who are physically and mentally healthy, physically strong, strong-willed and energetic.
The water polo team "grew" out of the radio seedlings
Li Hui was born in 1960, and under limited conditions, his parents gave the best food and nutrition to this thin and diminutive only son. The mother, who was a doctor, believed that physical exercise could improve her physique, so she asked an acquaintance to send the 11-year-old child to the authoritative place of swimming skills training in Chengdu at that time, the Mengchai Bay Swimming Pool to practice water polo, and practiced for eight years. After years of physical exercise, Li Hui not only has a significant increase in physique, but also his height has suddenly slipped from less than 150 centimeters to 160 centimeters in a certain year, surpassing many of his peers. During this period, Li Hui and his teammates have represented the Sichuan Youth Water Polo Team and the Youth Water Polo Team in national competitions for many times and won good rankings.
Li Hui is on the Sichuan Provincial Water Polo Team, second from the left in the second row
Li Hui's adolescence was precisely the era when China admired heroes and heroes, and the popularity of war films such as "Heroes and Children", "Tunnel Warfare", "Mine Warfare", "Plain Guerrilla", "Shangganling" and "Huo Yuanjia", "Legend of the Archery Hero", and "Chivalrous Travel" and other Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts dramas greatly aroused the bloodiness of boys. The heroes that Li Hui most admired were Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun, Dong Cunrui, and the Little Sisters of the Grassland, who were touched by their heroic spirit. He also dreamed of carrying a battle knife, riding a horse, and galloping on the battlefield to kill the enemy heroically.
On the other hand, around the Electronic Defense Factory in the eastern suburbs where Li Hui lived as a child, there is a Chengdu Institute of Telecommunications Engineering nearby, which is now the famous 985 and 211 dual key universities in China. In addition to practicing water polo, ten-year-old Li Hui was tinkering with radio, disassembling and disassembling various electronic devices, and successfully installing a 14-inch tube TELEVISION set at the age of 14. At the age of 18, a teacher at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China recommended Li Hui to the Sichuan Provincial Radio Team, which was recovering, and coach Xu Dezhi happened to be the leader of the Sichuan Water Polo Team. With this relationship and Li Hui's efforts, Li Hui officially became an athlete in the Sichuan Radio Team after four months of training.
World Radio Direction Finding Championships Champion Certificate
In 1981, the 21-year-old Li Hui and his teammates represented the Sichuan Radio Team in the National Radio Direction Finding Championship and won the team runner-up and won the second class. Four years later, Li Hui, Wang Jun (now president of the Sichuan Radio Association), Ma Bing (now vice president of the Sichuan Radio Association), and Yang Hong (now the head coach of the directional team of Sichuan Normal University) who served as the head coach of the Sichuan Radio Team made great contributions to the Sichuan Radio Team ranking among the top three in the country, bringing out he Kairong, the runner-up of the World Radio Direction Finding Championship, and many champions of the National Radio Direction Finding Championship.
From water polo boys to long drifters
In 1986, he drifted the Yangtze River for a group photo with his teammates
In 1985, Yao Maoshu's feat of drifting alone on the Yangtze River aroused the great patriotic enthusiasm of the Chinese people, and a large number of patriotic young people issued a bold statement that "China's mother river should be floated by the Chinese". In June 1986, Li Hui and his teammate Yang Bin of the Childhood Chasing Bay Water Team joined the Yangtze River Scientific Expedition Rafting Expedition Team without hesitation, and began a six-month rafting expedition with the members of the Luoyang Yangtze River Rafting Expedition and the Sino-US Joint Rafting Expedition.
At this time, Li Hui's radio direction finding and orientation skills were fully applied and exerted in the drifting process, becoming a well-deserved information expert in the team. The whole 6300 km of rafting mileage has been sacrificed by 10 teammates. In November of that year, the heroes of the Long Drift heroes returned triumphantly, greeted by applause and flowers, and Li Hui and his teammates were also commended by the superior departments and honored with great merit.
Li Hui and Yuan Weimin, former director of the State General Administration of Sports, are on the left
Whenever he talks about this experience, Li Hui will issue a sigh of "almost drifting forever"! But it is precisely because of this experience that Li Hui knows more about fearing life, advocating heroes, and constantly challenging himself!
Focus on sports + national defense science and technology education
Li Hui gave a lecture in the National Defense Science and Technology Exhibition Hall of the Shanxi Provincial Sports Museum
In the following decades, Li Hui temporarily left the sports circle for personal reasons, and he set up stalls and restaurants until he intersected with youth national defense sports.
After returning to sports in 2015, Li Hui worked for a well-known sports company and was assigned to Chengdu Friendship Primary School to teach students a direction measurement sports club class. Most of his life's experience is dealing with professional team members, Li Hui said that "teaching primary school students is a new topic and test." But with professional experience and heart, he infects students with the sportsmanship of advocating heroes and advocating champions! After cooperation with the school's teacher team, the results of Chengdu Friendship Primary School's fixed testing club competition have improved by leaps and bounds, and have been affirmed and praised by school leaders and parents.
In order to lead and demonstrate, Li Hui actively strives to participate in high-standard direction testing events and achieves impressive results in addition to teaching. He has won the 144M championship of the 11th Asian Radio Direction Finding Championship, and won the National Radio Direction finding Championship for two consecutive years in 2016 and 2017.
In 2020, Chengdu 36 Zhongding Direction Measurement Society was established. This is also a national junior military school demonstration school that has been jointly commended by the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Education, and the State National Defense Education Office as an "advanced unit of national defense education for the whole people."Li Hui was hired as the head coach of the school. Through just a few training sessions, Li Hui led the students of the school to participate in the Chengdu Youth Orienteering Championship with more than 1,000 people for the first time and won many medals in the first and second places, winning honors for the school.
The winner of the 11th Asian Radio Direction Finding Championship
"Radio direction finding and orienteering were originally a combined sport, and orienteering is now more widely permeated in various sports competitions, such as ski orienteering, which has been listed as an Olympic event." Li Hui said that radio direction finding orienteering not only has a broad mass base, but also has been an important part of military sports such as shooting, parachuting, gliding, aviation navigation model, and motorcycles.
With the reform of the country's sports work, "military sports" or "national defense sports" have become history, but the spirit is still continuing, and the new generation of athletes and coaches who have been influenced by the spirit of national defense sports have frequently achieved good results in the Olympic arena and won glory for the country!
In Li Hui's eyes, radio direction finding and directional exercise can not only improve physical fitness and physical fitness, but most importantly, exercise the thinking ability of teenagers. The content involved includes how to plan the route, choose the route and run to the goal in the most correct way, which is very beneficial to the child's growth exercise, while exercising their ability to think independently, judge independently, and overcome difficulties independently. Each day's practice is a different scene and action, and children will get different ways to solve problems and meet each new challenge.
2022 Love Chengdu Ying dayun Youth Orienteering Championships
To this end, Li Hui contacted Deng Wei (associate professor of Sichuan University, national referee of orienteering, executive director of the Safety Committee of the China University Student Orienteering Association), Wang Shiming (head coach of the Sichuan Provincial Model Aircraft Team), Gao Min (deputy secretary general of the Sichuan Mountaineering and Outdoor Sports Association), and a large number of "old people" in the sports circle, planning to build bases and enter campuses through the "Sichuan Provincial National Defense Science and Technology Sports Alliance" to carry out sports and education integration activities with the themes of national defense, military, and science and technology, and train young students to "love the motherland, strengthen national defense, and train young students to "love the motherland, strengthen national defense, and train young students to "love the motherland, strengthen national defense, and enter the campus through the "Sichuan Provincial National Defense Science and Technology Sports Alliance." Practice physical fitness, strive for the first" excellent character.
For his current new identity as a "leader of millions of mass sports in Sichuan Province", Li Hui said that he will use his enthusiasm to guide young students to advocate heroes and champions, and become "four young people" with blood, morality, rigidity and wisdom to meet the challenges of the new era.
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Author: Long Xiao
Editor: Xie Minglin
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