On October 31st, the "Fourth Big Hand Holding Small Hand Fun Table Tennis Finals" held by the Shanghai Sports Association for the Elderly was held in Luwan Gymnasium, which is a sports carnival for the elderly and young people in the city, and the contestants participating in the finals have been selected by each family (village), town and district, and there are 180 pairs of outstanding people gathered in the finals field to share the happy time of life of the old and young holding hands and sports health. In accordance with the notice of the General Administration of Sport on the prevention and control of the epidemic and safe production in the field of sports in the near future, as well as the requirements of the relevant departments of the city and district for epidemic prevention, the Shanghai Municipal Association of Sports has made detailed and solid preparations to ensure the safe, healthy and smooth progress of the competition.
Zhao Guangsheng, a first-class inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, Han Xiufang, president of the Shanghai Sports Association for the Elderly, and Chen Yiping, chairman of the Shanghai Table Tennis Association, attended the opening ceremony. Mr. Zhao Guangsheng, a first-class inspector of Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, presented the "Outstanding Contribution Award of the 4th Fun Table Tennis Finals" to the Huangpu District Sports Bureau, and Ms. Han Xiufang, President of the Shanghai Sports Association for the Elderly, presented the "Best Organization Award of the 4th Fun Table Tennis Finals" to the Huangpu District Sports Association for the Elderly. Mr. Zhao Guangsheng announced the opening of the competition, and the world champion Wang Liqin also cared about the competition in his busy schedule, and specially recorded a short video for the finals to be played on the spot, congratulating the opening of the finals and pushing the atmosphere of the opening ceremony to a climax.
The fun table tennis competition of "big hands holding small hands, healthy movement" is a brand event that the Shanghai Sports Association for the Elderly has focused on in recent years, and has been successfully held for three sessions, and this year is the fourth. Due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, the districts and villages, towns and districts of the preliminary round, the rematch of the event plan forced to postpone, according to the development of the epidemic situation and the spirit of the relevant instructions of the superiors on the development of the event during the epidemic period, some of the district-level and below events of this year's fun table tennis competition adopt a combination of online and offline competitions, the preliminary round started from April, after statistics, the number of parity (number) participated in the preliminary round and preliminary round social groups in each district of the city increased by 64% compared with last year, and the number of players this year was 2087 pairs.
In the case of normalization of epidemic prevention, the Municipal Association of Sports for the Elderly has been exploring the changes and innovations in the work of the elderly events, so that the sports and fitness of the active health of the elderly will add new vitality and motivation to the fight against the epidemic, for this reason, the Municipal Association of Sports for the Elderly specially held a meeting of the secretary general of the District Association of Sports for the Fourth Interesting Table Tennis Competition, and the meeting made specific requirements for the arrangement of this year's competition.
Shanghai big hand small hand fun table tennis tournament has been successfully held for four sessions, from the current situation, our goal is to hope to gradually achieve full coverage in the city, from publicity to activity organization, vertical to the end, horizontal can cover the side, through the competition publicity and launching organizations can go deep into the village and every elderly and young people, through the joint efforts of everyone, the full coverage benefits gradually appear, manifested in "the village moves, the town is strong (big), the district old sports association (create) new." Grandchildren play the same game, senior sports and youth sports interaction, so that teenagers like and master a sports skill, become the biggest highlight of the event.