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Badminton is a sport loved by the elderly, and Chengdu elderly badminton is particularly prosperous, not only with a large number of participants, but also in the provincial, domestic and foreign competitions for gold and silver, all of which are inseparable from the contribution of Ma Shaorong, president of the Badminton Association of Chengdu Municipal Association of Old Age.
75-year-old Ma Shaorong is a senior badminton enthusiast, he first started playing in 2003, Chengdu badminton hall has not been so popular now, and the cost of a better indoor stadium at that time is not easy for the elderly, many elderly enthusiasts can only find a vacant land to play "dam ball". Ma Shaorong felt that this was not possible, it was not safe, it was easy to have conflicts with the people around him, and more importantly, it lacked organization, and it was completely scattered. He proposed that the badminton sport for the elderly should be bigger and stronger, and achieve benign and healthy development, and took the initiative to subsidize the funds for playing ball by himself. Each elderly person only needs to pay 5 yuan to go to the regular indoor arena to play, and the normal fee of the stadium at that time is usually 20-30 yuan per hour, and Ma Shaorong has to paste a large amount of money for this.
From 2003 until the establishment of the Badminton Association of the Chengdu Old Sports Association, Ma Shaorong spent a total of hundreds of thousands of yuan, including subsidized stadium fees, cash prizes, and competition clothing. It can be said that in the more difficult stage of funding before and after the establishment of the association, Ma Shaorong's private sponsorship played a very big role and effectively promoted the development of badminton for the elderly in Chengdu. Under his leadership, many companies have joined the ranks of sponsorship, and many stadiums have also taken the initiative to reduce prices for the elderly. Later, various municipal and district-level public venues in Chengdu have been built and put into use, and elderly enthusiasts have more and better choices, they can play for free without spending a penny, and the sport of badminton for the elderly can really flourish. For his own efforts, Ma Shaorong looked very flat, he said: "I am engaged in enterprises, if it is not the policy of reform and opening up, I can not succeed, then with money to return to society should also be, this money I think is worth spending." ”
What makes Ma Shaorong most pleased is not that the elderly players in Chengdu continue to achieve good results in various competitions, nor that the stadiums that bloom everywhere provide better hardware conditions, nor that there are people who call "old horses" affectionately everywhere, but the improvement of the overall quality of the elderly who play ball, and the change of group atmosphere. "It was really bad in the beginning, there were fights and curses on the pitch, there were people who were preoccupied with small things, and there were people who said cool things behind their backs. Therefore, the association insists on advocating the spirit of collectivism, rewards the advanced every year, and slowly reverses the bad atmosphere. On the other hand, society is also making progress, the overall quality of everyone is getting higher and higher, and the collective atmosphere is becoming more and more harmonious. Ma Shaorong believes that at this step, Chengdu's elderly badminton sport can really be regarded as bigger and stronger, and he can play an active role in this process, he also feels very meaningful.
Chengdu Daily Jinguan News Reporter Xiao Zhu Editor Wang Ling Proofreader Song Hexiao