On March 22, the much-anticipated opening ceremony of the 2024 "Village BA" Ball King Championship kicked off in Taipan Village, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. A basketball game with a very rural atmosphere will be officially opened, "igniting" the enthusiasm of the audience and fans, showing a vibrant and steaming China, which not only brings joy to the majority of farmers, but also stimulates the new vitality of rural revitalization.
Help the transformation and upgrading of "village BA".
Behind the popularity of "Village BA", the Sports Lottery Community Chest has contributed to the support of the event and the venue. The Guizhou Provincial Sports Bureau and the Qiandongnan Prefecture Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism have issued announcements showing that in 2021 and 2022, the holding of the "Beautiful Village" basketball league is a key part of the Sports Lottery Community Chest's support for mass sports. In 2021, Qiandongnan Prefecture had 800,000 yuan of lottery public welfare funds for the state to hold and participate in the "Beautiful Village" basketball league in Guizhou Province, and from 2022 to 2024, the Sports Lottery Community Chest continued to inject funds to support Qiandongnan Prefecture to hold the "Beautiful Village" basketball game.
Cen Jianglong, director of the village committee of Taipan Village, once sighed: "After the 'village BA' became popular, there were too many people to watch and play, but fortunately, with the support of the 2 million yuan Sports Lottery Community Chest, we helped expand the venue, so that everyone who loves basketball has a stage to chase their dreams." At present, the stadium has an area of 1,300 square meters, and the number of spectator seats has increased to more than 20,000, and new facilities such as athletes' changing rooms, media reception and interview rooms, reception rooms, and public restrooms have been added. ”
In recent years, with the support of the Sports Lottery Community Chest, Taipan Village has successively held more than 1,000 games in 10 events, including the finals of the "Beautiful Village" Basketball League in Guizhou Province, the "June 6" Eating New Festival Basketball Tournament in Taipan Village, and the Finals of the National Hemei Village Basketball Competition (Village BA), promoting the "Village BA" to grow from a village ball game to a state, provincial and national event within a year, driving the integrated development of local agriculture, culture and tourism at the same time, but also driving the villagers to common prosperity.
Achieve full coverage of the "agricultural project".
In the spring of March, the grass grows and the warbler flies, walking into another village in Guizhou - Songshan Village, Yangjiawan Town, where the wide cultural square and scattered houses make the whole village more beautiful. Like many leisure squares in the city, Songshan Village's cultural square has its own charm. Table tennis tables, basketball hoops, seesaws, swings, and children's favorite plays, ...... All kinds of sports and fitness facilities are spread throughout the square, attracting many villagers to come to play and exercise.
Rural revitalization should not only shape but also cast the soul. In view of the lack of sports facilities in rural areas and the difficulty of farmers to participate in sports and fitness activities, the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China began to implement the "Farmers' Sports and Fitness Project" nationwide in 2006, and used the Sports Lottery Community Chest to invest in the construction of "one game and two tables" (a standard basketball court and two table tennis tables). Since then, more and more rural sports and cultural squares have been built, and the villagers have more good places for fitness and leisure. The sports atmosphere in the village suddenly came alive.
Today, the "Farmers' Sports and Fitness Project" has covered 570,000 administrative villages across the country, and has been praised by the majority of farmers as "Huimin Project", "People's Heart Project" and "Happiness Project". The simple wish of "exercising at the doorstep" has become a reality.
Thousands of villages and towns "play basketball" together
Basketball also has a deep mass foundation in the vast countryside of Henan Province. Started in 2009, the "Basketball Tournament for Farmers in Ten Thousand Villages and Thousands of Townships" has already become a well-known brand national fitness event in Henan and is the "favorite" of basketball lovers in rural areas.
35-year-old Zhang Yu, is a participant in the "Thousands of Villages and Thousands of Towns Farmers Basketball Game", and is also a physical education teacher in Xi County, Henan Province, after the game he once said frankly: "Some of the teammates are from the township, some are ordinary farmers, and there are also migrant workers in the county, just like the name of this game, so that people who like to play basketball in thousands of villages and towns have the opportunity to go on the court and compete with basketball enthusiasts in the province!"
In Ningxia, the Farmers' Basketball Championship has been successfully held for seven times, with a broad mass base, and has become a well-known local event IP; in Shandong, Heze City, Hemei Rural Basketball Tournament has been held more than 4,000 times, attracting many elite players to join; in Yunnan, the Honghe Prefecture "Rural Revitalization Cup" Basketball League has built a platform for enthusiasts to display and communicate, and in Xinjiang, the Rural Basketball Tournament has given farmers and herdsmen the opportunity to participate in the national fitness movement...... All over the country, rural basketball competitions are booming. The investment of the Sports Lottery Community Chest has injected a strong impetus into the prosperity of rural basketball culture.
The spotlights were dazzling, the rows of benches were full, and the shouts shook the sky...... From a village to the whole country, a small basketball has stirred up thousands of waves, and the vigorous development of sports activities has strengthened people's physique and brought more laughter and laughter to the countryside.
Since its unified issuance in 1994, China Sports Lottery has raised more than 800 billion yuan in public welfare funds, making important contributions to the development of sports and public welfare undertakings in mainland China. Because of the help of the Sports Lottery Community Chest, the spirit of sportsmanship has been inherited in the fields, presenting a healthier, more energetic and harmonious new atmosphere of rural sports.