-Written in the countdown to the National Games for one month.

On September 15, the quadrennial National Games, the highest level comprehensive sports event in China, will officially open in the Xi Olympic Sports Center Stadium. At present, Shaanxi Province has made preparations for the venue construction, epidemic prevention, security, publicity, reception and competition area of the 14th National Games.

World-class stadiums are waiting for national athletes.

Walking into the swimming and diving hall of Xi Olympic Sports Center, blue water waves rippled under the huge emblem of the 14th National Games. The stadium has a total construction area of 654.38 million square meters and a height of about 30 meters. It is divided into a competition hall, a training hall and a swimming and diving land training hall, in which the competition hall has more than 4,000 seats.

The venue is not only "outside the show", but also "in wisdom". The roof design adopts solar photovoltaic power generation technology, and the water treatment system and refrigerator also adopt many safe, green and energy-saving technologies. In addition, the air source heat pump is installed in the venue. When the water temperature in the venue needs to be raised, the heat pump can directly collect heat energy from the atmosphere.

Xi Olympic Sports Center, which hosted the opening ceremony and track and field competition, was recently certified as an IAAF first-class venue, reaching the highest standard of IAAF venue construction. This indicates that this place will be qualified to host world-class events such as Olympic track and field competition, world track and field championship and IAAF golden league in the future.

During the track and field test of the National Games, I had planned to meet Tian Zizhong, the 13th National Games men's shot put champion, to see the high-quality venue conditions of the Olympic Sports Center, and to score19m51. "I am very excited to be here, and I am particularly satisfied with my performance." He said.

From March to July this year, Shaanxi Province arranged to complete 53 test matches of the National Games, which achieved the purpose of checking the venue equipment, training the operation team, finding out the rules of running the games and running in the working mechanism.

Accurate epidemic prevention to ensure the safety of the competition

The 14th National Games is the first comprehensive sports competition held in China after the Tokyo Olympic Games. Under the epidemic situation, it may become a window to observe the development of sports at home and abroad and the effectiveness of epidemic prevention.

Liu Tianqi, Deputy Minister of Health of the 14th National Games Organizing Committee, said that the 14th National Games will implement closed management for athletes, media and other participants. In addition, spectators will be allowed to participate in the competition, but they must complete the whole vaccination of COVID-19 vaccine on 14 days before the competition and provide negative proof of nucleic acid test within 72 hours before the competition.

In order to ensure the normal and safe holding of the National Games, Xi carried out nucleic acid testing for all employees in some areas of COVID-19 where there were no newly confirmed cases. People braved the high temperature and spontaneously lined up in front of the inspection point, and the scene was orderly.

At the other end of the city, the provincial grain warehouse of the National Games has been put into operation. Jiang Min, deputy director of the Food and Drug Safety and Security Department of the 14th National Games Organizing Committee, introduced that the organizing committee set up a general food warehouse for athletes to ensure food safety and zero incidents of food-borne stimulants, including pigs, cattle, sheep, eggs, milk, aquatic products, spices, seasonings and their products.

All the people and the whole movement are United as one.

Four years ago, the 13th National Games practiced the people-centered development concept, insisted on taking the people as the main body of sports development, and added 19 mass events.

Statistics show that millions of people participated in the grassroots trials of "I want to go to the National Games" in the 13th National Games through online and offline methods. Participants are all over the country, involving all walks of life. The youngest athlete is 4 years old and the oldest is 93 years old.

Mass sports events enter the National Games, which makes the National Games play an increasingly obvious role in pulling and driving the national fitness. Not long ago, the National Fitness Program (202 1-2025) issued by the State Council mentioned that people's enthusiasm for promoting health through fitness is increasing, and the proportion of people who regularly participate in physical exercise reaches 37.2%.

During the preparation for the 14th National Games, Shaanxi actively promoted the construction of fitness venues that are convenient and suitable for the masses, and promoted the six national fitness projects of "two rivers and two rivers". Among them, there are only 800 miles of national fitness corridors along the Weihe River in Qinchuan, benefiting more than 2 million people in Sanqin.

With the slogan "National Games, Let's Walk Together", the 14th National Games will make great contributions to the sports history of new China. People expect the national fitness cause to take this grand event as an opportunity to take a more solid step and contribute to the realization of the goal of a healthy China.