The Opening of the Sixth Municipal Games Yesterday at Wufeng Wang Li Announced the Opening Ma Zejiang Zheng Lihui delivered a speech

On the evening of October 10, the 6th Yichang City Games opened in Wufeng. The picture shows the scene of the athletes' entrance ceremony. Photo by reporter Fu Beibei

On the evening of October 10, in the warm expectation of the people of the city, the 6th Yichang Games opened in Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County. Wang Li, secretary of the municipal party committee, attended the opening ceremony and announced the opening.

Ma Zejiang, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor, and Zheng Lihui, deputy director of the provincial sports bureau, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. Municipal leaders Song Wenbao, Kong Fusheng, Zhou Zhengying and Zhang Fawei attended the opening ceremony.

At 19:30, the opening ceremony officially began.

With the melody of "Singing the Motherland", the salute soldiers guarding the national flag of the People's Republic of China walked into the gymnasium with neat steps. The sonorous and powerful "Athletes' March" was played at the scene, and the Flag of the Yichang City Games and the Flag Team of the Sixth Yichang City Games, the referee representative team, the athlete delegations of various counties and urban areas and the phalanx of disabled athletes entered in turn.

After the entrance ceremony, the whole audience stood up, sang the national anthem of the People's Republic of China, and raised the national flag.

On behalf of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, Ma Zejiang expressed his heartfelt thanks to all sectors of society who have long been concerned about and supported the development of Yichang's sports industry. He said that in recent years, under the strong leadership of the provincial party committee and the provincial government and the strong support of the provincial sports bureau, Yichang has deeply implemented the national strategy of national fitness, accelerated the construction of the "national sports consumption pilot city", the level of national fitness development has become higher and higher, the equalization of public sports services has become more and more realistic, and the development efficiency of the sports industry has become better and better. The Municipal Games is the largest and highest level national sports event in the city, and is a centralized review of the development results of the city's sports industry. It is hoped that all participants will vigorously carry forward the Olympic spirit and the Chinese sports spirit, work tenaciously, pursue excellence, and compete in style and level. The whole city should take the opportunity of holding this games to further enhance the spirit, overcome difficulties, continuously create a new situation in Yichang's strength and energy level, and strive to promote the city's high-quality development to a new level.

Zheng Lihui said in his speech that the Yichang Municipal Party Committee and the Yichang Municipal Government attach great importance to the construction of a strong sports city, put sports work in an important position, vigorously implement the national strategy of national fitness, continuously enhance the comprehensive strength of competitive sports, continue to expand the supply of sports products and services, accelerate the coordinated development of mass sports, competitive sports, and sports industries, and continuously meet the growing needs of the people for a better life. It is hoped that Yichang will take the opportunity of holding this Games to accelerate the preparations for the Provincial Sixteenth Games, actively strive to create a model city for national sports and fitness, better and faster promote the development of sports and sports industries, and promote the sustained and healthy development of Yichang's economy and society.

At about 20:00, Wang Li announced: The 6th Yichang City Games opened!

Accompanied by the melody of the song of the Sixth Municipal Games, the flag of the Municipal Games and the flag of the Sixth Municipal Games are rising.

Athlete representative Zhang Shuai, coach representative She Changlong, referee representative Lu Xiaoyu respectively took the oath.

An original wufeng traditional mountain song kicked off the prelude to the cultural and sports exhibition "Meet Six Lucks and Chase Dreams and Tea Town". The performance consists of the prologue "Tea Mountain Greeting Guests", the first part "Singing and Dancing", the next part "Beautiful Yichang" and the epilogue "Chasing Dreams tea town". The song and dance with strong national characteristics vividly interpreted the theme of "meeting the five peaks of the tea town and sharing the wonderful six lucks" of this year's Games.

It is understood that the Municipal Games will be held every four years, and the Municipal Games will close on October 17, with a total of 29 sports events and 543 minor events in the three categories of teenagers, adults and the disabled, and more than 6,300 athletes participate, and the number of competition items and participants is the largest in the past. (Reporters Lei Pengcheng and Tian Dongming)