Looking at the veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, riding bicycles skillfully through the village road of Liushu Town, Xixiang County, people were surprised: Is this a 92-year-old man?
Hu Xingcheng participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea when he was young, and later supported rural development, and took the initiative to apply to leave the unit. In the countryside, he works out by cycling. Nowadays, riding a bicycle still feels as light as a swallow.
People like Hu Xingcheng who work out in their own way abound in Xixiang. With a population of 410,000, Xixiang is one of the most inhabitable places for human habitation by UNESCO. In recent years, the Xixiang County Government has strongly promoted and guided the masses to exercise. All kinds of mass sports activities have blossomed everywhere, such as community games, square dances, inter-work gymnastics competitions, basketball leagues, football matches, table tennis matches, Go, roller skating, and badminton open competitions, with more than 300,000 participants every year, promoting the heat wave of national fitness.
At the same time, the government came forward to build brand events, and successfully held two half marathons, the national sister city basketball tournament for the middle-aged and elderly, the Shaanxi-Ganchuan Football Invitational Tournament, and the 1,000-person Go Open Tournament, attracting a wide range of players from inside and outside the province. During the competition, it not only attracted more people to devote themselves to it, but also made the beautiful scenery of Xixiang, high-quality tea and delicious snacks well-known through a lens and a pair of eyes, highlighting the functional value of "sports + tourism + consumption", and making many people make "sports wealth". It is understood that since the beginning of this year, Xixiang has held more than 20 events of various kinds, attracting 500,000 tourists and promoting the growth of comprehensive tourism income by 1 billion yuan.
"Exercise for an hour a day and live happily for the rest of your life." This is the most popular mass mantra. "Official" sports and fitness activities emerge in an endless stream, and the original fitness methods of the masses have won a full house after their debut. On June 8, the people of Chazhen took advantage of the water surface of the Han River to hold the "Jiangwan Stride" walking and "Flat Boat Racing" rowing competition. More than 500 town and village cadres and villagers walked briskly, swinging oars to chase the waves, which kicked off the prelude to the mass fitness competition.
The people of Daheba, who are in the depths of Bashan, are not far behind and hold a Bashan crossing activity. Nowadays, the Xixiang "Village BA" basketball game is in full swing, and the farmers are sweating like rain and competing fiercely. In the Seongnam Sports Park, there are basketball, table tennis, badminton and other events every night; On the 3-kilometer-long road in the cherry ditch scenic spot in the north of the city, the people who walk are endless, and it is called "longevity road" by everyone. Driven by the national fitness boom, 16 sports associations have emerged in Xixiang, including the Table Tennis Association, the Cycling Association, the Basketball Association, and the Roller Skating Association, with more than 80,000 members.
Source: Hanzhong Sports Bureau, Xixiang County Education and Sports Bureau (X)