On October 24, the 2024 Zhejiang Province “Public Welfare Sports Lottery Happy Playground” Huzhou Nanxun Station charity event kicked off at Guoqiang Primary School, Lianshi Town, Huzhou City.
This charity event has previously been held in Dongtou, Wenzhou and Shengsi, Zhoushan. This is the third stop in this series of events. The organizer has brought brand-new professional sports equipment, trendy sports classes, and practical sports and health information to the school. Lectures etc.
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At the beginning of the event, the children of Guoqiang Primary School in Lianshi Town performed the opening dance “Dai Li”, and the principal Zheng Rui introduced the general situation of Guoqiang Primary School.
Wang Zhenzhang, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Lottery Management Center, introduced to the students examples of how Zhejiang Sports Lottery has undertaken charity activities, assumed social responsibilities, and contributed to the development of the sports industry and public welfare undertakings in Zhejiang Province in recent years. At the same time, he encouraged students to actively participate in physical exercise, strengthen their bodies and grow up happily in sports.
Subsequently, Zhang Yuting, director of the Campus Construction Department of the Zhejiang Youth Development Foundation, presented sporting goods worth 50,000 yuan donated by the Zhejiang Sports Lottery Charity Fund to Guoqiang Primary School. In the Zhejiang Sports Lottery’s “Dreams and Micro Wishes” collection activity, three children from Guoqiang Primary School were selected, and the organizer helped them realize their dreams on the spot.
Experience trendy sports classes and plant sports dreams
At the event site, professional coaches from Zhejiang Huanglong Sports Culture Training Co., Ltd. prepared equipment in different areas and brought a variety of sports experience classes to the children. There are football that tests teamwork, badminton that exercises the whole body, novel roller skating, baseball, and popular rugby and golf. The children were divided into groups and chose sports of interest to experience.
In addition, a powerful Wing Chun experience class was also set up on site. As a branch of traditional martial arts, Wing Chun has the functions of fitness, body protection, defense against enemies, and victory. The children practiced basic movements under the leadership of the coach, and each step, punch and palm were performed in a formal manner. “I have only seen Wing Chun in the movie “Ip Man” before and thought it was very cool. I didn’t expect that I could learn one and a half moves today,” said Chen, a sixth-grade student.
The trendy physical education class ignited the lively atmosphere at the scene. Zhejiang women’s volleyball player Liu Zhuangzi, who also participated in charity activities, could not help but experience flag football, baseball and other sports.
Set up diversified links to enhance interest
In addition to special physical education courses, sports and health lectures and Olympic story sharing sessions are also highly anticipated parts of the event for children.
Yi Zhigang, the public welfare image spokesperson of Zhejiang Sports Lottery and senior sports reporter of Qianjiang Evening News, shared his experience of going to Paris to cover the Olympic Games not long ago. From the origin of the Olympic Games, the classification of Olympic events, to the history of hosting games in Paris… what he saw and heard in Paris gave the children a deeper understanding of the Olympic Games.
In another classroom, Song Tao, the attending Chinese medicine practitioner from Hangzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, gave a very useful health lecture to the children, so that everyone can exercise happily while paying attention to protection and avoid getting sick and getting injured less.
According to reports, the “Public Welfare Sports Lottery·Happy Playground” themed public welfare activity was launched nationwide in 2012 by the Sports Lottery Management Center of the State Sports General Administration. It aims to donate sports equipment and sports facilities to primary and secondary schools in remote rural areas that lack sports equipment. It is also Zhejiang Sports lottery is one of the ten measures in the overall blueprint of “1+5+10” to help build a common prosperity demonstration zone. In 2024, Zhejiang Province’s “Public Welfare Sports Lottery Happy Playground” activity will continue to enter different rural schools, bring high-quality sports and medical resources to sink, pay attention to the physical fitness of young people, promote the integration of sports and education, and gather strength for the common prosperity of Zhejiang. (Zhang Yijin/Text by Zhejiang Sports Lottery Management Center/Photo provided)
