The curtain of the Tokyo Olympic Games has officially opened, and the pace of Tianjin's sports development is also constantly advancing. On July 23, the launching ceremony of Tianjin's construction of "Sports Capital" and the 2021 National Public Judo Carnival China Junior High School Judo Championship were held in Tianjin Gymnasium. With the official launch of the construction of the "Sports Capital" and the construction of a sports vitality city of "everyone advocating sports, everyone participating in sports, and everyone being physically and mentally healthy", the clarion call for Tianjin to build a strong sports city has officially sounded.
On the morning of July 23, the Tianjin Gymnasium, which was transformed into a high-level judo competition venue, was very lively, and the launching ceremony of Tianjin's construction of "Sports Capital" and the opening ceremony of the 2021 National Public Judo Carnival and the 2021 China Junior High School Judo Championship were held here. As an ambassador for the "Capital of Movement", Tong Wen read out the proposal.
Tong Wen
Ambassador of the "Capital of Sport" promotion
I am a sports person myself, in my daily life, I will use my spare time to popularize the knowledge of sports to the majority of citizens and friends, including some small common sense in judo. I hope that more and more people can devote themselves to sports and enjoy the happiness brought by sports.
Tianjin has a long cultural history of advocating sports and is the birthplace of modern Chinese sports. From Zhang Boling's "Three Olympic Questions" to the spirit of the Tianjin women's volleyball team, the people of Tianjin love sports, the national fitness activities are widely carried out, the proportion of the population who regularly participate in physical exercise has reached 45%, and the pass rate of the national physique measurement standard of urban and rural residents has remained above 92%, ranking the forefront of the country. Tianjin has a number of competitive levels and strength to maintain the advantages of the international and domestic advanced projects and outstanding sports talents, has the successful hosting of the World Table Tennis Championships, Gymnastics World Championships, East Asian Games, the National Games, paralympics and other large-scale international and foreign sports events rich experience, has the sports industry to become a pillar industry of the national economy pillar industry has laid a solid foundation for the realization of the goal of "sports capital" construction.
The construction of "Sports Capital" is deployed by the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, consulted and guided by the Tianjin Municipal CPPCC Committee, and an important deployment made for the development of Tianjin's sports industry during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, with the purpose of building Tianjin into a sports metropolis with international influence, full of vitality and charm, and meeting the needs of the people for a better life.
At the launching ceremony, more than 1,000 young judo players demonstrated their judo sports skills, and the 2021 National Public Judo Carnival and the 2021 Chinese Junior High School Judo Championship held at the same time as the launching ceremony was the first event that accompanied the launch of the "Capital of Sports", and it was also the event with the highest specifications and the largest number of participants in history.
Li Kemin
Tianjin Municipal Sports Bureau Director Party Secretary
We must build a capital of sports vitality, a capital of sports events, a capital of sports exhibitions, a capital of the sports industry and a capital of sports talents. Let us organically integrate sports with culture, tourism, education, finance and commerce, stimulate the vitality of urban innovation in Tianjin, and shape and enhance the image of Tianjin as an international city of socialist modern metropolis.
Xue Yanqing
Secretary General of the Joint Secretariat of the Student Sports Association of the Ministry of Education
Taking advantage of the launch ceremony of the City of Sports, we organize judo competitions for middle school students and elementary school students. It was also the largest this year. These two activities are put together, I think the first is meaningful, and the second is a relationship that promotes each other, which is of great significance to the cultivation of adolescents.