Reflections on the Opening Ceremony of the 17th Provincial Games in Changzhou

On June 6th, 2006, Mayor Wang Weicheng gave an enthusiastic report on the bid for the Olympic Games on behalf of Changzhou Municipal People's Government and 3.6 million citizens.

From the day when the bid was successful and Changzhou won the right to host the 17th Provincial Games, Changzhou once again solemnly promised to "make the 17th Provincial Games the most wonderful, complete, successful and unforgettable one in the history of the Provincial Games".

Four years, from economic security, city appearance to competition organization and meeting arrangement; From art festivals and news propaganda to competition preparation and security, Changzhou people keep their promises and go all out day and night.

Time flies, four years have passed.

Liuzhou, with open arms, proudly cheered:

Welcome to the 17th Provincial Games!

Changzhou is ready!

Brand new modern sports facilities

Since winning the right to host the 17 provincial games, the rapid construction and development of sports in Changzhou has attracted attention. In the second half of 2007, Changzhou Olympic Sports Center with a total investment of 654.38+0.4 billion yuan was completed and put into operation, which made Changzhou sports resources achieve a double leap in quality and quantity. Today, Changzhou has more than 1 10,000 seats in the gymnasium, more than 40,000 seats in the gymnasium and 30 standard swimming lanes. Under the operation of Changzhou Sports Bureau and Sports Industry Company, China Badminton Masters, National Diving Star Exhibition Competition, China Trampoline "Ten Years of Glory" Celebration, 2008 Adidas U 19 National Winners Cup Football Competition and other large-scale international and domestic events have been introduced one after another, and more than one million Changzhou citizens have enjoyed "the excitement at home".

In order to hold the provincial games, Changzhou has selected 25 venues from many sports resources as competition venues. Most of these 25 venues have facilities for hosting national competitions, accumulated experience in hosting international, national and provincial competitions, and have staff and volunteers who provide high-quality and efficient services for the competitions. The provincial sports city is prosperous and the stadium is more jubilant. It is expected that athletes from all over the province will show their skills and make great achievements on the stage of modern competition built in Changzhou.

Fast and convenient traffic conditions

Changzhou has five administrative regions: Jintan, Liyang, Wujin, Xinbei, Tianning, Paris and Qishuyan. The city has a total area of 4,385 square kilometers and a registered population of 3,587,400. Among them, the urban area is 1.864 square kilometers and the population is 2,258,600.

Changzhou is a dragon city with the Yangtze River in the north and Taihu Lake in the south. Six expressway lines, including beijing-shanghai railway, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, Nanjing-Hangzhou Expressway, Jiang Yan Expressway and Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, pass through it. Changzhou Port of the Yangtze River is a national first-class open port with an annual cargo throughput of over 20 million tons. Changzhou Airport is a 4D civil aviation airport with flights to more than 20 cities including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Beijing, Shenyang and Harbin. Changzhou Airport, which was rebuilt and expanded in September this year, will be upgraded. The main skeleton of Changzhou Expressway has completed the first-phase viaduct, with a total length of 29.2 kilometers, including 26 kilometers. Changzhou Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT) has the characteristics of high speed and large capacity, and provides comfortable, preferential, fast and punctual high-quality bus service for travel.

Brand-new and beautiful city appearance

Since the reform and opening up, Changzhou's urban landscaping construction is developing at an unprecedented speed. At the beginning of 2008, Changzhou was officially named "National Garden City" by the Ministry of Construction. At present, the total green area of Changzhou built-up area is 5 1 18.3 hectares, the green rate is 38.2%, and the green coverage rate is 42.2%. Urban per capita public green space 12.3 square meters; There are 46 provincial garden-style communities, 8 provincial garden-style units1/kloc-0, and 57 parks, square green spaces and riverside green spaces.

According to the construction goal of "there are about 3,000 square meters of park green space for residents to travel about 300 meters, about 20,000 square meters for residents to travel 1 meter, and each urban agglomeration should plan at least 1 park green space of more than 20 hectares", Changzhou has rebuilt and expanded the original toll park, and at the same time built a large number of large-scale park green spaces, realizing the free opening of all municipal parks in the city.

A harmonious and moving new civilization

The prologue of the Provincial Games began slowly, and 5,000 volunteers and 50,000 social volunteers stepped onto the stage of voluntary service of the Provincial Games.

At present, Changzhou * * * has 4/kloc-0 members of volunteer associations, branches and service corps, and there are more than 2,200 voluntary service organizations at all levels with more than 270,000 registered people. Volunteers include both teenage students and white-haired old people. They have made great efforts to welcome, serve and guarantee the provincial games, displayed the image of civilized Changzhou with civilized, enthusiastic, high-quality and efficient volunteer service, and started the brand of volunteer service, making the provincial games more exciting and making Longcheng more harmonious with perfect performance.

The theme activities of the Year of Volunteer Service organized by Changzhou mainly include three aspects and nine actions. In welcoming the provincial games, we mainly carry out activities such as etiquette publicity and education display, traffic co-management, and window quality service; In terms of serving the provincial games, we mainly carry out games-time volunteer service, urban volunteer service and social volunteer service. In terms of protecting the provincial games, we will focus on the action of protecting the safe community and the action of 10,000 volunteers entering the new countryside.

Warm and thoughtful reception service

The grand event welcomed guests from all directions, and Longcheng played a welcome song. In the golden autumn of 20 10, Changzhou will gather tens of thousands of athletes, coaches and staff in the whole province, and the reception work will involve more than 70 hotels in 26 competition venues in the city, which is the highest in previous provincial games.

With the goal of "the most wonderful, perfect, successful and unforgettable", all tourist reception units in Changzhou have updated their service concepts, tightened their service standards and improved their management level to ensure that ordinary tourists feel at home during the Games and enjoy a safe and comfortable life. They will provide warm, thoughtful, humanized and high-quality services to the guests of the provincial games with the cleanest environment, the best sanitary conditions and the safest facilities, and fully demonstrate harmony.

Hotels in Changzhou have different genres and styles, but the service of each one reflects the hospitality and thoughtfulness of Changzhou people. Star hotels headed by Changzhou Hotel and Du Fu Business Hotel are distinguished and meticulous. Characteristic hotel, represented by Oak Bay Garden Hotel, is full of humanistic characteristics; Leisure and holiday hotels such as Jinling Hotel in Taihu Bay and Tianmu Lake Hotel in Liyang are comfortable ... Besides, all kinds of affordable tourist hotels are small, exquisite and comfortable. Hotels and restaurants in Changzhou will welcome friends from all over our province with the enthusiasm of grand festivals and exquisite and enthusiastic service.

An exciting cultural festival

Changzhou is a young and ancient city with a written history of over 3000 years. This is a hot land that has nurtured many ancient and modern masters, and has gathered many Changzhou elements and stories of Longcheng in China culture, forming a rich cultural heritage and rich cultural resources.

Today, Changzhou will use its precious cultural accumulation to build a stage for the 17 provincial games, and will also create an artistic atmosphere, classic inspiration and friendship bridge for this grand event.

Grand Opening Ceremony: The grand opening ceremony of the 7th Provincial Games will be held on 20 1 1 year1October11day, with the effect of "soul, shock and beauty".

Soul: the collision and dialogue between the unique humanistic atmosphere and the cultural trend of the times shines into the living water of history and reality.

Shock: The combination of creative innovation and contemporary science and technology, three-dimensional, multi-element and multi-structure embodiment will bring a brand-new feeling of "grandeur, brightness and distinctiveness".

Aesthetic feeling: artistic expression that comes from life and is higher than life. Fully mobilize artistic modeling means, and create an artistic atmosphere through sound, light, electricity, film and other means, so that people are influenced and infected by truth, goodness and beauty.

Superstars' wonderful closing performance: In response to the opening ceremony with the theme of joy and harmony, the closing ceremony of the Provincial Games will be a bright, enthusiastic and warm celebration of superstars.

This happy festival is a carnival-a successful sports meeting, a happy party, a star-studded song concert, a superstar gathering and constant surprises, which will surely set off a happy storm in Longcheng. It is a colorful audio-visual feast. Songs are presented in a story-telling, visual and behavioral way by means of scenery, music, beautiful dance, lighting and special effects. It is a happy gathering of sports stars, athletes and all walks of life.

The friendly atmosphere of the whole province

Changzhou, as the host of the 17 Provincial Games, should not only arrange, organize and serve the wonderful games, but also pass on the prosperous culture, harmonious atmosphere and deep friendship to every athlete and guest, and create a good atmosphere of "one family in Jiangsu, one family in the whole province", which is one of the main goals we set for this grand event. Through a series of activities, we will integrate people's feelings, market conditions and provincial conditions, integrate athletes, coaches, referees and the general audience, cultivate new sports concepts and * * * innovate sports glory.

There are six series of activities in the "Harmonious Jiangsu Provincial Games", most of which are organized and implemented before the Games. Among them, "the media communicate with relatives", that is, the media in the whole province, including newspapers, radio, television, internet, communications and so on. Focus on the highlights of economic and social development and cultural and sports characteristics of cities in the province one by one, with the traffic in the province as the clue and the city as the plate; There is a "float to spread the friendship between the North and the South" activity, that is, a unified sports caravan is organized to tour and show the general situation and development experience of sports in all parts of the province; There is the activity of "Danqing Hanmo praising nostalgia", that is, organizing high-level exhibitions such as calligraphy and painting, photography, stamp collecting and essay writing; There are "national fitness to express one's feelings" activities, including body-building running for government officials, cycling race around the city, national hiking, wedding marathon and so on. There are "passionate song and dance" activities, including dozens of cultural performances, mass cultural performances, large-scale concert "Longcheng Chunyun" and so on; There is also "sponsoring the grand event to show hospitality", that is, the special sponsors or service providers, suppliers and franchisees of the Provincial Games provide funds, products and services, share the glory of this huge brand, and express the deep affection from the business community for the Provincial Games.

Unique Longcheng Tourism

After entering the 2 1 century, the development of Changzhou tourism has produced a blowout effect, and a number of famous tourist attractions have emerged, initially forming a tourism brand product group. Changzhou has not only become the first batch of excellent tourist cities in China in the new century, but also the total amount of tourism economy and tourist reception has jumped to the fourth place in Jiangsu Province and has been maintained for seven consecutive years. Not only are there endless tourists in the surrounding areas, but thousands of people from Beijing, Tianjin and other places come here. In 2009, the total tourism revenue reached 28.24 billion yuan, receiving 23.734 million domestic and foreign tourists.

At present, there are: (1) 1 National 5A-level tourist area-Global Dinosaur City; (2) provincial tourist resort 1 piece-Tianmu Lake tourist resort; (3) There are 7 national 4A tourist areas-Tianmu Lake Tourist Resort, Tianning Temple, Hongmei Park, Nanshan Bamboo Sea, Maoshan Tourist Scenic Area, Asia Film and Television City and Changzhou Museum; (4) 0/5 national tourist areas in 2A and 3A, and (5) 0/8 national industrial and agricultural tourism demonstration sites, including Wu Chu Agricultural Culture Park, Shi Si Park, Dashishan Tourism Farm, Jiangnan Peacock Garden, Jin Ao Crocodile Garden, Sanqin Agricultural Ecological Park, Moujia Village and Bichun Garden.

Prosperous Changzhou economy

Changzhou is one of the cradles of modern industry in China. After the reform and opening up, Changzhou took the lead in rising, creating the "Changzhou Experience" on the road of China's industrialization development and winning the reputation of "China Industrial Star City". As the "Top Ten Cities with Innovative Environment in China", Changzhou was awarded the title of "National Advanced City with Scientific and Technological Progress" for 0/2 consecutive years, and in 2009, it won the honor of "the first place in the innovation ability of China city government".

In recent years, on the basis of highlighting and strengthening five key industries such as equipment manufacturing, electronic information, new energy, new materials and biomedicine, Changzhou has made great efforts to build product clusters such as power transmission and transformation equipment, computer and communication equipment, digital audio-visual and electronic components, solar photovoltaic products, polymer materials, bioengineering and medicine, and Changzhou's pillar economy has entered the fast lane of sustainable development.

In 2009, there were more than 5,000 industrial enterprises above designated size in the city, covering 34 categories and 46 industrial sectors of the national economy. The annual GDP reached 250 billion yuan, an increase of 1 1.5% at comparable prices, and the per capita household registration level exceeded 1 10,000 US dollars. The total fiscal revenue was 68 1.7 yuan, of which the local general budget revenue exceeded 20 billion yuan, reaching 2 1.59 billion yuan, up 16.6% year-on-year. The fixed assets investment of the whole society is170.48 billion yuan, the total retail sales of social consumer goods is 90140 million yuan, the total import and export of foreign trade is15.08 billion dollars, the per capita disposable income of urban residents is 2375 1 yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers is1kloc-.

China's most urban landmark.

The well-known Tianning Temple in Changzhou was once a landmark building complex in Changzhou. The temple was built in the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, with a history of 1300 years, and is one of the key Buddhist temples in China.

In order to celebrate the prosperous times and welcome the grand event, Changzhou rebuilt the Tianning Tower destroyed by soldiers in the Song Dynasty and opened its doors to welcome guests in 2007. Tianning Pagoda *** 13 floor, with octagonal cornices in the style of Tang and Song Dynasties, is dignified in shape and magnificent in momentum, ranking first among the eight pagodas in China: the first Jinding Jade Body Pagoda in China; The bronze inscription tile was adopted for the first time; Equipped with the largest Buddhist forest; The top of the tower hangs the first big clock, which is 3.2m high and weighs15t. With eight bright and eight dark *** 16 underground palaces, it is the largest underground palace group in China; The tower foundation is surrounded by 500 Luohan granite reliefs, with a length of 130m and a height of 2.8m, which is the highest in China. The tower foundation fence is surrounded by 999 white marble pagodas, forming the first Tallinn in China, which is magnificent; Tianning Pagoda, with a height of 153.79 meters, is the tallest pagoda in China and makes Changzhou the most landmark in China.

I wish the 17th Jiangsu Provincial Games a complete success!