/ Morning News/Guangzhou, August 09, 2022 -- On the evening of August 8, the 16th Yunnan Provincial Games opened in Yuxi City. Athletes from Yunnan Province met in Yuxi to compete together and show their sports style.
In the cultural and sports performance at the opening ceremony, a team of 1,000 volunteers and 300 professional performers presented a comprehensive display of Yuxi's natural history, sports and culture.
"Green, science and technology, simple, Yuxi characteristics" has become the key words of the opening ceremony of the Yunnan Games. The opening ceremony of the Yunnan Games has fully learned from the successful experience of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The scale of the artistic performance has been moderately reduced, the opening ceremony plan has been optimized, the participating personnel have been reduced, and the artistic effect has been ensured.
It is understood that this is following the 10th Yunnan Provincial Games in 1998, after 24 years, Yuxi City again to host the Yunnan Provincial Games. As the first comprehensive sports event held in Yunnan Province since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus epidemic, it not only tests the ability and wisdom of sports workers, but also reflects the responsibility and responsibility of sports departments to ensure the satisfaction of the people.
As the host of the 16th Games of Yunnan Province, Yuxi is the prefecture (city) in Yunnan Province where Olympic champions, Asian Games champions and National Games champions emerged. Adhering to the goal of "holding the games brilliantly, participating in them brilliantly and developing them brilliantly", Yuxi has built a large number of sports venues with advanced facilities, taking on a new look and setting up a broad stage for the Yunnan Games. < /p>It is reported that Yunnan Games is held every four years, is the highest specification, the largest scale, the highest level of provincial comprehensive games in Yunnan province, to promote the coordinated development of competitive sports, mass sports and sports industry in Yunnan, accelerate the construction of plateau characteristic sports province, It is of great significance to help implement the strategy of making China a strong sports country and a healthy China. The Yunnan Games consists of four groups: youth group, university group, staff group and public group. A total of more than 15,000 athletes from 16 prefectures (cities) in Yunnan Province will participate in the games. They will compete fiercely in 43 major sports and 1035 minor sports. (Duan Qiaofang)
