On September 6, the Hangzhou Asian Games Torch Relay theme press conference was held in the main media center.
It is reported that after nearly three months of overall planning and meticulous preparation, the torch relay has been prepared. The launching ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games Torch Relay will be held on the morning of September 8 at Yongjin Park Square in Hangzhou's West Lake.
The torch relay at Hangzhou Station departed from Yongjin Park Square and closed in the autumn moon of Pinghu, with a total length of 5.2 kilometers, and a total of 106 torchbearers participated in the first day of the relay. After that, the torch will be relayed in Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Lishui, Jinhua and Quzhou, before returning to Hangzhou on September 20 and completing the final leg. More than 2,000 torchbearers will participate in the relay.
On the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the torch passed through 11 districted cities will light the main cauldron located in the main stadium of the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center, and a sports event with "Chinese characteristics, Asian style and wonderful" will bloom brilliantly.
Who are the torchbearers
The torch relay is the most important event before the Asian Games, and the torchbearer is the most important subject of the torch relay and has attracted much attention.
Du Zuofeng, deputy commander of the Hangzhou Asian Games Torch Relay Command Center, introduced that more than 2,000 torchbearers include outstanding athletes, coaches and other sports workers, models of the times, loyal guards, moral models, labor models, "most beautiful figures" and other advanced representatives in various fields, as well as outstanding contributions to the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Among the torchbearers, the youngest was 14 years old and the oldest was 84 years old, with 732 female representatives, 1,219 grassroots front-line representatives, 1,069 advanced model figures, 275 sports workers, and a certain number of representatives of ethnic minorities, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots, and disabled people.
The torchbearer has many familiar names. In addition to badminton world champions Chen Yufei and Wang Yilu, swimming world champions Wang Shun, Ye Shiwen, table tennis world champion Fan Zhendong and other well-known athletes in the sports world, there are also national model workers, Xu Chuanzi, head of the State Grid service development class, Zhu Shijie, the head of Ningbo Zhoushan Port and Bridge Crane, as well as industry leaders, such as academic representatives, academician Shi Yigong of Westlake University, digital economy representative Daniel Zhang, scientific and technological representatives, Ning Xiaolin, a representative of the scientific and technological community, and a zero-magnetic medical technology innovation center, as well as a national moral model, Yu Fuling, secretary of the joint party committee of Baizhang Party Building Comprehensive Demonstration Zone in Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Cui Yiwen, "Knife Blocking Girl", Wu Juping, "The Most Beautiful Mother", Peng Qinglin, the express brother who jumped into the river to save people, etc. In addition, there are Zhang Jigui, a national model worker and craftsman talent, Lu Yicong, who has grown from a front-line assembly apprentice to a "craftsman in a big country", Sui Yongfeng, who has long been engaged in the independent research and development of gas turbines and industrial steam turbines of "National Heavy Equipment", and Nie Fengge, a promoter of green and low-carbon and ecological restoration.
These torchbearers will each participate in the 11-stop torch relay. The Hangzhou torch relay on September 8 and 20 was attended by 106 and 210 torchbearers respectively. In each city outside Hangzhou, 170 torchbearers completed the 8 to 9 km torch relay route.
In general, this torch relay will comprehensively consider the correlation between the torchbearers and the relevant points on the relay route, so that people with stories can run where there are stories.
Why them
Every torchbearer is a flag, a benchmark. At the press conference, Du Zuofeng also decrypted the selection story of the torchbearer.
In order to fully consider the breadth of sources, the representativeness of the personalities and the fairness of the selection, the selection of the torchbearers of the Hangzhou Asian Games is mainly for the Olympic Council of Asia and other Asian national (regional) Olympic committees, the Chinese Olympic Committee, the Hangzhou Asian Organizing Committee, all districted cities in Zhejiang Province and the sponsoring enterprises of the Hangzhou Asian Games. Torchbearers are mainly selected through the recommendation of the organization and are selected after being publicized by the region and the system.
It is worth mentioning that 30 torchbearers were selected by lot among the more than 5 million citizens who participated in the event through the online "Striving to be Asian Games Torchbearers" theme activity. These lucky people come from different regions, have different occupations and life backgrounds, and they will also become the best bearers and tellers of the story of the Hangzhou Asian Games.
The Hangzhou Asian Games torch relay also adopts a combination of offline and online relay, organically integrating the flame of civilization, the Olympic flame and the flame of digital. On June 15, with the end of the Hangzhou Asian Games torch collection ceremony, the online torch relay activity of the digital torchbearers was launched simultaneously on the smart Asian Games one-stop platform. More than 84 million people have become online digital torchbearers. On September 8, after the launch of the offline torch relay at the Hangzhou Asian Games, the online digital torchbearers' activities will continue.
"In the digital age, everyone is a torchbearer. This year's Hangzhou Asian Games is expected to create the largest, most numerous projects and most extensive coverage of the Asian Games torch relay in history. Du Zuofeng said.
In addition, the Hangzhou Asian Games torch relay route is also full of highlights. The reporter learned at the scene that the preparation of the torch relay route of the Hangzhou Asian Games first followed the practice of international competitions, and also became an excellent opportunity to reflect the development of Zhejiang. In the process of compiling the transmission route, all localities have always focused on the provincial brand of "poetry and painting in the south of the river, vitality in Zhejiang", and strive to highlight the "taste of Zhejiang" and "cultural tourism". For example, Hangzhou's "Splendid and Prosperous New Paradise Line" mainly revolves around the urban development context from the "West Lake Era" to the "Qiantang River Era", from the dazzling dawn of Liangzhu civilization, to the sunny and rainy West Lake, and then to the endless racing Qiantang River, vividly reflecting Hangzhou's urban positioning as a "historical and cultural city, a city of innovation and vitality, and a capital of ecological civilization".
The relay routes of other cities also have their own characteristics, such as "Red Boat Leads the Way to Build a Dream for the Future" in Jiaxing, "Binhai Ningbo Sails the World" in Ningbo, "Millennium Commercial Port and Happy Wenzhou" in Wenzhou, and "Xiushan Lishui Youth City" in Lishui, focusing on the excellent scenery, history and culture and natural scenery of each city.
How safeguards work
The support work of the torch relay is also proceeding in an orderly manner.
According to reports, the Hangzhou Asian Games torch through indoor rotating wind, 8 strong wind field, 10 strong wind small wind field, outdoor seaside, typhoon, heavy rain, mountain, corner wind and other scenes, a total of 3,000 rod tests, the torch can be ignited under 300mm/h rain, and the combustion will not be extinguished. Combined with technological innovation points, on the basis of the main structure of the double burner, the two jet mixing, direct injection fire stabilization, dense cluster net combustion, large-hole diversion rainproof, concentrated energy windproof technology and other invention technologies are adopted to achieve stronger windproof and rainproof performance of the Asian Games torch. In addition, according to the custom, three tinder lamps have been prepared, which will burn from the time the torch is collected until the main cauldron tower is extinguished.
At present, the Hangzhou Asian Games Torch Relay Command Center has fully coordinated with the Asian Games Meteorological Center in all aspects of meteorological professional and technical forces, established a relatively complete weather forecasting and analysis system, and strengthened the frequency and intensity of accurate weather forecasting. According to the frequency of once a day 5 to 7 days before the relay, twice a day 2 to 4 days before the relay, once every three hours the day before the relay, and once an hour on the day of the relay, the weather conditions in the area through which the relay route passes are analyzed and forecasted more accurately. "In the event of extreme weather, we will report to the command to suspend the holding of local events after the study is determined and re-schedule the relay event. In the case of a light rain, etc., we recommend passing it according to the original plan. Du Zuofeng said.
In addition, the traffic protection work and traffic management measures during the torch relay that the citizens are most concerned about were also introduced at the scene. Jiang Juhui, member of the Party Committee of the Traffic Management Bureau of the Provincial Public Security Department and director of the Road Traffic Safety Command and Dispatch Center, said that during the torch relay, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the torch relay, local public security traffic police departments will implement temporary traffic management measures on the torch relay route and surrounding roads in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Road Traffic Safety Law. Among them, the torch relay route adopts two-way lane full closed traffic control, prohibits the passage of motor vehicles and non-motor vehicles, and is announced to the public in advance by each districted city.
At the same time, in order to minimize the impact of the torch relay on people's work, life and travel, local public security traffic police departments will start and lift traffic management measures in time and sections according to the torch relay period and route, and make every effort to reduce the time of road control and ensure the normal passage of social traffic. Through navigation platforms such as AutoNavi and Baidu, road information boards, radio broadcasts, etc., real-time road traffic information is released to guide citizens to travel at the wrong time. If the people in the traffic control area really have emergency passage needs, the traffic police department will also make every effort to provide guarantees.
Authors: Ji Yuya, He Dongjian, Zhang Mengyue, Wang Keyu
Source: Zhejiang Daily