The 11th National Games will be held in Jinan, Shandong Province on June 65438+1October1. This was revealed by the organizing committee of the 11th National Games at its second meeting held in Jinan today. Public bidding will be held for the opening and closing ceremonies. For a large-scale national sports meeting like the National Games, the opening and closing ceremonies are the highlight of widespread concern. The opening ceremony of the 11th National Games is scheduled to be held on June 65438+1October 65438+1October 0 1 day, and the closing ceremony is scheduled to be held on October 23, 2009. The opening ceremony will be held in the newly-built Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium. The closing ceremony will be held in the gymnasium of the Olympic Sports Center. Open solicitation of opening and closing ceremonies for the society reflects innovation, brilliance and frugality, embodies national tradition and spirit of the times, embodies Chinese culture and Qilu culture, and embodies achievements in sports and economic and social development. In August this year, the cultural and sports performance plan for the opening ceremony will be publicly solicited from the public, and the specific plan for the opening ceremony will be determined in April next year. The mascot of the emblem was unveiled in June this year. 10. In June this year 10, the emblem, mascot, theme slogan and poster of the 11th National Games will be unveiled. At the same time, the countdown board for the 11th National Games will be set up, and the publicity activities for the second anniversary of countdown will be carried out. In September this year, the solicitation ceremony, torch style and relay plan of the 11th National Games will be publicly solicited. The national anthem will also be announced this month. The flame collection ceremony was held in May 2009, and the torch relay was held in August. After all the torches gathered in Jinan at the end of September, the main torch was lit at the opening ceremony of June 65438+1October 65438+1October 0/KLOC-0. Jinan will host 23 events. The 11th National Games will be held in 7 cities in the province/KLOC-0, with 33 major events and 360 minor events. On the basis of bidding by cities, after comprehensive balance and approval by the State Sports General Administration, the project layout of 60 sub-regions in the province with Jinan as the main competition area and 17 city * * * was determined. Among them, Jinan will host 23 events, including track and field, swimming (diving, men's water polo), badminton, men's basketball, boxing, equestrian (speed horse racing), men's football (team competition and 1-4), gymnastics (rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline), men's handball, tennis, men's volleyball, women's volleyball, weightlifting and weightlifting. Qingdao will undertake 1 1 project, 6 projects in Rizhao and 0-3 projects in other cities. Marathon and some ice and snow events will be held in other provinces and cities. * * * Need to build 4 1 venue. According to the principle of economy, high quality and sustainability, the province needs to maintain and build 130 competition and training venues according to the needs of the games. Among them, the existing venue is 7 1, the newly-built venue is 4 1, and the renovated venue is 18. Among the newly-built venues, Jinan Olympic Sports Center, the main venue, started construction on May 28th last year. The project covers an area of 8 1 hectare with a building area of 350,000 square meters, including the main stadium, gymnasium, swimming pool and tennis hall. At present, the main stadium has been capped, and the main projects of gymnasium, swimming pool and tennis hall will be completed by the end of August this year. The entire Olympic Sports Center project is expected to be completed by the end of 2008. Of the 22 newly-built venues in other cities, 5 have been completed, 1 1 has started construction, 5 will start construction in the near future, and another project is under planning. Six competition venues and nine training venues built by the Provincial Sports Bureau started construction in May this year. The radio and television anchor station and information center supporting the 11th National Games have been planned. At the same time, the development of national fitness has been included in the purpose of hosting the 11th National Games. Our province plans to carry out a series of activities with the theme of "National Fitness, Olympic Games and National Games", formulate the "One Point Three Lines" National Fitness Project and the "Farmers' Physical Fitness Project" and begin to implement them. Before 2009, a number of fitness centers, fitness projects and grass-roots fitness places will be built with Jinan as the center and municipal cities as the fulcrum, combined with urban planning and construction transformation, to create three national fitness landscape lines: coastal, along the Yellow River and historical and cultural. At the same time, combined with the construction of new socialist countryside, we will build sports fitness facilities suitable for rural characteristics in all administrative villages in the province, and strive to basically realize "sports facilities for every village" by 20 10.