On the morning of January 1, with the festive dragon and lion performance, the 2024 "Dragon Walking Suhe Riding and Running to Welcome the New Year" New Year's Day welcome activity in Putuo District was hotly opened. Jiang Dongdong, Secretary of the District Party Committee, attended and announced the opening of the event; Xiao Wengao, Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee and District Mayor, delivered a welcome speech; Tan Shangwei, Director of the Standing Committee of the District People's Congress, Hang Chunfang, Chairman of the District Political Consultative Conference, Zhou Yan, Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, and District leaders Liu Dongchang, Zhang Wei, Wu Chaoyang, Wu Lingyu, Wei Zixin, Wang Jue, Jiang Long, Xiao Li, and Fu Lexin attended the event. The district leaders and more than 200 contestants set off in batches and in an orderly manner, and everyone started (riding) happily from the Taopu Central Green Space, accompanied by the riders and the medical and health support personnel of the team.
Xiao Wengao said in his speech that in the past year, Putuo District has unswervingly moved forward in the direction guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping, resolutely implemented the decision-making and deployment of the municipal party committee and the municipal government and the work requirements of the district committee, and achieved new results in high-quality economic and social development. The New Year's Day Welcome Run is a traditional welcome project in Putuo, this time with a combination of cycling and fun running - riding and running, through different routes in the New Year, we will lead everyone to experience the charm of "Chinese Wushu" and "Half Masu River", and jointly enjoy the picture scroll of Putuo's high-quality development. I hope that everyone will race up and run together, with a vigorous and energetic mental state, make a good start for the new year, and strive to run the first stick of the year.
The 2024 New Year's Day welcome event combines cycling and fun running, and is divided into the "Zhonghua Wushu" group with 8KM cycling and the "Half Masu River" group with 15KM cycling + 1KM fun run. Guided by the scientific and technological innovation layout of "China Wushu" and the beautiful business card of "Half Masu River" as the carrier, the vitality and vitality of Putuo District are demonstrated through the integration of urban development and dynamic sports.
Announcing the 2024 "Half Masu River" major event
With the connection of the long wind section of Suzhou Creek and the further improvement of the quality of public space, a series of connotative, high-quality, beautiful and high-energy check-in places throughout the eighteen bays of Suzhou Creek have been integrated into an unparalleled charm track, with wonderful events, rich activities and good atmosphere to further help Shanghai promote the construction of a world-famous sports city. Combined with the natural advantages of the "Half Masu River" waterfront space, Putuo will continue to carry out a number of large-scale sports events in 2024 to further demonstrate Putuo's urban soft power. At the scene, district leaders Zhou Yan, Liu Dongchang, Zhang Wei and Wu Chaoyang jointly took the stage to announce the major events of the "Half Masu River" in 2024: 2024 Suzhou Creek Half Marathon, 2024 Suzhou Creek City Rowing Classic, 2024 Suzhou Creek Dragon Boat Race, and 2024 Shanghai 10km Classic.
It is the opening of the "Chinese Martial Arts" cycling route
In addition, Putuo District proposes to build a "China Wushu" science and technology innovation layout, aiming to promote the transformation of the regional innovation platform to a pillar and beam, the innovation system to a multi-in-one, and the innovation advantage to system integration from a higher starting point, and strive to shape more innovation-driven leading development. The cycling route of this orientation activity mainly focuses on the new track of the "China Wushu" science and technology innovation layout - passing through the China-Israel (Shanghai) Innovation Park, Shanghai Tsinghua International Innovation Center, and Haina Town, a digital transformation demonstration zone, and passing through the Wuning Science and Technology Innovation Axis that runs through the east and west of Putuo and radiates the north and south wings, and a number of universities, scientific research institutes, science and technology parks and innovative enterprises have gathered along the line. At the scene, district leaders Wu Lingyu, Wei Zixin, Wang Jue, Jiang Long, Xiao Li, and Fu Lexin jointly opened the "China Wushu" cycling route that gathers the spirit of Putuo's science and technology.
Today is the first day of 2024 and the 38th anniversary of the Putuo District New Year Run, which is the most historic New Year's Fun Run in Shanghai and is deeply loved by the public. While enriching the sports and cultural life of the masses, it has further created a festive atmosphere of "joy, harmony and festivity", and has become the first sports feast of the Putuo people in the New Year.