On the morning of May 29, the 2021 beihai station of the City Go League, guided by the China Weiqi Association and sponsored by the Sports Bureau of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Beihai Municipal People's Government and Huazhi Sports Industry Co., Ltd., kicked off in Beihai City, Guangxi Province.
The scene of the opening ceremony.
This season, there are 32 participating clubs at home and abroad, from 32 cities in ten countries on five continents, of which South Africa and Kuala Lumpur are the first time to participate in the City Siege League, and The Teams of Seoul, South Korea and Hong Kong are once again competing in the City Siege League. Participants include world champions such as Ma Xiaochun Jiudan, as well as foreign jiudan players such as Satoshi Jiecheng, Mike Raymond, and Zhao Huilian. This year's competition adopts the points arrangement format, which is divided into two major competition areas, domestic and overseas, and 18 clubs in the domestic division will play 7 rounds of competitions offline in the tournament system; 14 clubs in overseas divisions will conduct four rounds of online competitions online.
Nie Weiping, vice chairman of the Chinese Weiqi Association, visited the game.
Lin Jianchao, chairman of the China Weiqi Association, said that after six years of baptism of wind and rain, the Chengwei League has become an important Go force in Guangxi, China and even the world. The Beihai Station Competition of the City Siege League has special significance and value, after the Chinese Weiqi Association awarded Beihai The title of "National Go Town", and created the process of "building an important platform for international Go cultural exchanges in the Pan-Beibu Gulf" here. As a new pole of Go, Beihai has become an important operation to open up the "Belt and Road" on the sea, especially the opening of the Weiqi road facing Southeast Asia.
Lu Yiwen, deputy director of the Autonomous Region Sports Bureau, said in his speech that the Beihai Station Competition is once again a joint effort by Beihai, an excellent tourist city in China, and the City Siege Of China's sports tourism boutique events, which is an active exploration of win-win cooperation in sports tourism and the upgrading of sports tourism consumption. The Sports Bureau of the Autonomous Region will continue to support the reform and innovation of Beihai City and the City Siege Association, promote the in-depth integration of sports with culture and tourism, create a sports tourism consumption brand project with Guangxi characteristics, and further promote the development of Guangxi's sports industry.
It is reported that Beihai is a city of Go, the atmosphere of Go is strong, Go into the campus successful implementation, so far in Beihai City 19 kindergartens, 9 primary schools, 1 vocational colleges to open a Go popularization course, about 5,000 people get training every year. Beihai also has its own brand pan-Beibu Gulf Go League, which has been successfully held for eleven sessions. The City Siege United Beihai Station Competition is one of the high-level events held in Beihai City in 2021. At the beginning of May this year, the China Weiqi Association and the Beihai Municipal People's Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly build the Pan-Beibu Gulf International Go Cultural Exchange Center.
In addition to the competitions in the domestic competition area of the Chengwei Federation, Beihai Station will also hold a series of activities such as the "Chaomei Chess Yuan" Weizhou Island Weizhou Island Go Celebrity Invitational Tournament, the "Bama Centennial Cup" Chengwei Lianqi Fan Tournament, the Guided Chess, the Famous Masters Speaking Chess, the Go Into the Enterprise, the Theme Exhibition, the Product Market, the "Chaomei Chess Talk" Go Theme Forum, the Chess Zhiyuan, The Cultivation of Good Learning - Chengwei LianWei Into the Campus and so on.
Ou Yujun, vice mayor of Beihai City, said that the Beihai Go movement has a deep mass foundation and is the only city in Guangxi that has won the national "Hometown of Go". In recent years, Beihai has held a series of major Go tournaments, which have received widespread attention from Go enthusiasts at home and abroad. Beihai will take this tournament as an opportunity to further increase its support for the Beihai Go movement and promote the Beihai Go cause and the Weiqi industry to a new level. (China Daily Guangxi Reporter Station)
Source: China Daily