Fujian Daily, New Fujian Client, January 2 (Reporter Du Zhenglan, Correspondent Huang Jianhe) Ran to Hua'an, experienced the breath of the forest. A few days ago, the 2023 Xiamen Marathon League Hua'an Station and the 2023 Hua'an Tulou Half Marathon started at the World Cultural Heritage Site Hua'an Dadi Tulou Group, with men's and women's half marathons (21.0975 km) and health runs (5 km) set up events. More than 2,000 runners from home and abroad gathered into a green ocean to gallop on the Huama track, they measured the tulou with happy footsteps, and felt the charm of the refreshing Hua'an landscape with a hugging attitude.
AFTER FIERCE COMPETITION, IN THE MEN'S HALF MARATHON GROUP, PAUL GIDION NYAIRO FROM KENYA WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP WITH A TIME OF 1 HOUR, 10 MINUTES AND 53 SECONDS, BATT MENGKAI FROM CHINA WON THE SECOND PLACE WITH A TIME OF 1 HOUR, 11 MINUTES 39 SECONDS, AND YE WEI FROM CHINA RANKED THIRD WITH A TIME OF 1 HOUR, 13 MINUTES AND 51 SECONDS. In the women's half marathon, China's Chen Xiaolan won the championship with a time of 1 hour, 26 minutes and 08 seconds, Fan Chunxiang from China won the second place with a time of 1 hour, 27 minutes and 05 seconds, and Lu Xiayan from China ranked third with a time of 1 hour, 27 minutes and 09 seconds.
Hua'an is a world cultural heritage site and a national forest park in the whole region, with rich cultural and tourism resources, including mountains, water, fields, forests, tea, buildings, jade, bamboo and other characteristic resources. The race venue is a scenic spot, and the world's unique rammed-earth residential building Hua'an Tulou dots the Zui Mei World Heritage track, staging "Fast and Furious". In addition to the world heritage tulou group and Gaoshan characteristic villages, the race route also bypasses passion fruit orchards, traditional ancient villages, etc., surrounded by tulou, mountains, breezes, green trees, green mountains and green waters, and the well-designed route arrangement allows runners from all walks of life in Tiannan and Haibei to appreciate and experience the customs and rural delicacies of Hua'an all the way, and feel the infinite charm of Hua'an.
In recent years, Hua'an County has closely followed the general positioning of "building an important window for Fujian to display ecological civilization and a well-known ecological leisure and health care and characteristic rural tourism destination", and has successively introduced and implemented Xi the "Hua'an County All-for-One Ecotourism Quality and Efficiency Improvement Action Plan" and "Hua'an County Resort and Rural Tourism Construction Plan", etc., relying on superior ecological and cultural resources, learning from Zhejiang's "Ten Million Project" to promote the construction of comprehensive agricultural reform projects. The county mobilizes, the whole people participate, and the whole region is promoted, opening the integrated development model of "culture + sports + tourism", continuing to build a tourism brand of "four seasons and refreshing Hua'an", and stepping out of a new path of eco-tourism, smart tourism and all-for-one tourism.
The marathon also set up a long table banquet, a food carnival and a special agricultural products exhibition, and the delicacies and specialties of various towns and towns were put into battle, so that all the runners who participated in Huama not only experienced a smooth run, but also tasted a feast on the tip of the tongue; Hua'an's special agricultural products and delicacies also appeared at the event site.
Source: New Fujian