The annual happy festival for Basketball lovers in Shanghai is here again!
On October 17th, the launching ceremony of the 2021 Shanghai City Amateur League Shanghai Citizens Basketball Festival Basketball Carnival and the opening ceremony of the 2021 "China Resources Mixc - Youchao Cup" Hongqiao Town Celebrity Basketball Invitational Tournament were held in the MixC in Hongqiao Town, Minhang District.
Other highlights of this year's Basketball Festival, such as the Shanghai Basketball Development Forum and the Shanghai Chaoku Basketball Culture Shoe Exhibition, also kicked off at the same time.

The event will last for two weeks and is divided into four sections: Shanghai Basketball Development Forum, Basketball Carnival, 2021 "Sports Hongqiao" Celebrity Basketball Tournament, and Shanghai Chaoku Basketball Culture Shoe Show. The combination of "Forum + Carnival + Mass Events + Cultural Shoe Exhibition" gathered into a unique basketball party, allowing citizens to enjoy the happy charm of basketball in this autumn, and also making Wuzhong Road Commercial Circle, a commercial landmark in southwest Shanghai, full of popularity.
Since 2016, around the development of basketball, inviting well-known experts and scholars in the field of basketball at home and abroad to plan and hold influential forum activities is almost the highlight of the Shanghai Citizens Basketball Festival. Previous forums have discussed the four basketball dimensions of amateur basketball, competitive basketball, wealth basketball and cultural basketball; they have discussed what the holding of the Basketball World Cup can bring to Shanghai; and they have also focused on the new opportunities and challenges of the basketball industry under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control.
Pictured: Zhang Zhiting, a member of the three-person women's national basketball team
Pictured: Three-man women's national basketball national team head coach Xu Jiamin
Pictured: Xu Weimin, director of the Basketball Sports Center of Shanghai Athletic Center
Pictured: Deputy Secretary-General of the Basketball Branch of the China Secondary School Students Sports Association, Zhang Zhiting Enlightenment Coach Shi Xudong
Pictured: Dai Fuqi, chairman of Luohe Sports
With the theme of "New Breakthrough, New Starting Point", the three-member women's national basketball national team coach Xu Jiamin and team member Zhang Zhiting, as well as experts and scholars in the field of Basketball in Shanghai and the main body of the Shanghai Youth Tournament, gathered together at Master Kong's Shanghai headquarters. Listen to the journey behind the women's basketball girl winning the first Olympic medal in the three-person women's basketball project; look forward to the future of the Shanghai three-person women's basketball team and the Chinese three-person women's basketball team; at the same time, experts and scholars in the field of basketball will also contribute "dry goods" in shanghai basketball talent training and basketball youth training construction, and contribute ideas and suggestions for the future of Shanghai basketball.
Pictured: Zhao Guangsheng, a first-class inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, and Wang Guanbao, secretary of the party group of the Minhang District People's Congress Standing Committee, unveiled the Hongqiao Town Youth Women's Basketball Cultivation and Development Base.
Pictured: Xu Beibei, deputy editor-in-chief of Jiefang Daily, delivered a speech for this forum.
As one of the important components of this year's Civic Basketball Festival, the 2021 "Sports Hongqiao" Celebrity Basketball Tournament is dominated by grassroots basketball masters, and the men's 3V3 competition, three-point competition, and skill competition are set up. Formed by corporate white-collar workers and community members, a total of 16 corporate teams have signed up to participate in the competition, and will compete fiercely.
"Sports Hongqiao" is a business card of regionalized party building in Hongqiao Town, through the leadership of party building, take the initiative to dock the spiritual needs of enterprises and the masses, give full play to the innovative advantages of the grass-roots party building mechanism, and adopt the new mode of "the government sets up the stage, the enterprise sings, and the whole people participate", which has been widely recognized by the public in recent years and has produced a wide range of social influence.
Picture said: The Wuzhong Road Business Circle Sports Promotion Alliance was established, and Yuan Zhiqing, director of the Minhang District People's Congress Office, and Zhang Xiaoying, director of the Minhang District Sports Bureau, unveiled the league.
Pictured: Zhang Zhiting gave the ball to the representative of the enterprise, China Resources Land.
Pictured: Chen Zhenqiang, mayor of Hongqiao Town People's Government, delivered a speech for this competition.
Shanghai Chaoku Basketball Culture Shoe Show is another new highlight of this basketball festival. At present, sneakers are not only popular for a short time, but also the carrier of trend culture. The development of basketball has spread culture, and sneakers have been given new connotations, and trends, personalities, egos, and persistence are all labels for sneakers. Even the value of sneakers is no longer limited to wearing, but can be collected. During the exhibition, a variety of limited-edition basketball cultural shoes (generally referring to the shoes that integrate fashion and classics in basketball shoes) are bound to make the vast number of basketball equipment collectors in Shanghai feast their eyes, and also give all hipsters who love shoes a platform for exchange and interaction. At the same time, in conjunction with the Shanghai Basketball History Corridor set up on the spot, a unique basketball education was promoted.
At the carnival activities, a variety of basketball-themed interactive activities and games with prizes made the citizens have a lot of fun - "Power Challenge" vigorously out of the miracle to win the prize hand will not be sour; "Eye Disease" and "Crossfire" two games to test the participants' reflexes and muscle coordination; "Bicycle Power Generation" proves that you are a real physically competent person; "Shooting Challenge" is the best project for friends and families to compete with; on the hot stage show, street ball dance, cheerleading performance, hip-hop music performance are presented one by one. The Citizens' Basketball Festival hopes to use the form of "street basketball + popular culture" to present a carnival feast that integrates culture, basketball and innovation.
The Shanghai Citizens' Basketball Festival, hosted by Jiefang Daily, has entered its 6th year this year, and this Shanghai mass basketball brand activity will promote the world's advanced basketball concept and basketball culture to a wider range of people in the city, so that the people of Shanghai can feel the charm of basketball while building a bridge between Shanghai basketball and world basketball.
The event was hosted by Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, Shanghai Municipal Sports Federation and Jiefang Daily Newspaper; Shanghai Social Sports Management Center (Shanghai Municipal Sports Competition Management Center), Minhang District Sports Bureau, Hongqiao Town Committee of the Communist Party of China, Hongqiao Town People's Government, Jiefang Newspaper (Shanghai) Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., and Shanghai MixC.
The MixC has always been committed to the diversification of sports and leisure methods, and has created a fashionable and professional mass sports atmosphere for the Citizens Basketball Festival; in order to replenish the energy of the participating warriors in time, Master Kong added water and electrolyte sports drinks for the Shanghai Citizens' Basketball Festival.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Chen Hua Text Editor: Yao Qinyi
Source: Author: Yao Qinyi