This year's peasant sports meeting is more like a "country Olympics" full of joy. More than 3000 athletes from all over the country gathered to show and learn skills. Whether it's the 46-year-old "Watermelon King" who participated in the table tennis competition, or the junior player in the sixth grade of primary school, whether it's the folk lion king who pursued his dreams in difficulties, or the master boxer who won awards such as camels, cattle and sheep, they all brought joy to the audience while enjoying the competition and pursuing their dreams.
15 and 198 include modern competitive sports such as basketball and table tennis, as well as ethnic and folk sports such as dragon boat, dragon and lion dance, Chinese wrestling and China chess. Projects that are popular in rural areas all over the country, and that are close to farmers' lives and combined with productive labor, such as bicycle loading and fitness yangko, especially track and field events.
This year's farmers' sports meeting adheres to the concept of thrifty competition, which is no more extensive than that of foreign countries. The opening ceremony was held in the afternoon, saving the cost of sound, light and electricity. In the construction of venues, make full use of existing facilities and put a number of competition events into existing venues of universities or troops. At the same time, the two venues were rebuilt by highly motivated enterprises combined with their own development needs, saving a lot of money.
Wang Fulai, vice chairman and secretary general of China Farmers' Sports Association, said that the holding of this farmers' sports meeting is of great significance to promoting the development of farmers' sports and the in-depth development of "hundreds of millions of farmers' fitness activities" in rural areas, and promoting rural culture and the construction of a new socialist countryside.
At the closing ceremony held that night, the representative of Jilin Province, the host of the next Peasant Games, took over the flag of the Peasant Games.
In the closing performance, the director group used the music and dance with the characteristics of the Central Plains and the first prize program of the fitness Yangko competition of the Farmers' Games. Through the three movements of beautiful Nanyang, happy Central Plains and the fragrance of Chinese roses, it showed the splendor of this farmers' games and the beautiful picture of the people of the Central Plains building a harmonious new countryside and weaving a happy new life.
China is the only country in the world that regularly hosts the National Farmers' Games. Starting from 1988, it is held every four years, with a total of 7 sessions. The first six sessions were held in Beijing, Xiaogan, Hubei, Shanghai, Mianyang, Sichuan, Yichun, Jiangxi and Quanzhou, Fujian.