Shandong comprehensively improves the public service quality of national fitness.

    Recently, the State Sports General Administration announced the second batch of national sports fitness model cities (districts) and national sports fitness model counties (cities, districts) were shortlisted, and 12 counties (cities, districts) including Qingdao, Dongying and Binzhou in Shandong Province and Zichuan District in Zibo City were shortlisted, ranking among the top in the country. Previously, Rizhao City, Chengyang District of Qingdao City and Boxing County of Binzhou City have been shortlisted for the first batch of national national fitness model cities and counties. Taking the exemplary creation as the starting point, the public service level of national fitness at all levels in the province has been continuously improved.

    At the same time, in accordance with the unified deployment of the province, cities actively promote new sports consumption, launch a number of characteristic sports events, create a number of outdoor sports quality products, launch a number of ice and snow sports demonstration projects, and create six excellent sports tourism routes at or above the provincial level.

    At present, the framework of Shandong national fitness system and the work pattern of "large groups" have been continuously improved. Create a "three-edge" sports belt along the Yellow River, the coast and the canal, and promote the integration of sports and education, sports and health, and sports and tourism in depth. Sports have made great progress in helping rural revitalization, and the national fitness atmosphere has become increasingly strong, and the quality of public services for national fitness has been comprehensively improved.

    Qiao Yunping, director of the Provincial Sports Bureau, said that this year we will continue to improve the construction of fitness facilities around the masses. Intensify the implementation of the short-board project of national fitness facilities, promote the supporting construction and daily management of sports facilities in urban residential areas, vigorously promote the implementation of the "four synchronizations" of community public sports facilities, and basically build a "fifteen-minute" fitness circle in urban communities in the province.

    Efforts have been made to expand the new carrier of national fitness and green convenience. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", 77 large-scale sports parks have been built, renovated or expanded in our province, and the target tasks have been overfulfilled ahead of schedule, with a total of 165, and 15 more will be added during the year.

    In-depth promotion of national fitness facilities will be carried out, the maintenance and management of public fitness facilities will be promoted, and more than 100,000 pieces of sports equipment will be inspected and updated in time every year. At the same time, national fitness facilities such as intelligent fitness stations, intelligent fitness trails and national fitness halls will be vigorously built to continuously improve the level of intelligence.

    Guided by brand events, the national fitness events in our province are vigorously carried out. Last year, the National Fitness Games and the Winter National Fitness Games continued to be successfully held, with the number of participants exceeding 5 million, 13,000 community sports games, more than 50,000 mass sports events in the province, and the Shandong Intellectual Games and the Children’s Sports Conference were held for the first time.

    The construction of fitness facilities has been solidly promoted. The coverage rate of national fitness projects in counties and townships in the province has increased to 97.2%, and the per capita sports ground area in the province has reached 2.9 square meters. At present, the proportion of people who regularly take part in physical exercise in our province is 41.3%, and there are more than 48,000 sports social organizations and 258,000 social sports instructors at all levels.

    At present, all public stadiums and gymnasiums in the province and more than 2,000 school sports venues are open to the outside world. Coordinate central and provincial subsidies to support 136 public stadiums and gymnasiums to open to the public free of charge or at low fees, and set up more than 90 social supervisors for the opening of public stadiums and gymnasiums to continuously promote the standardized opening of public stadiums and gymnasiums and improve the service level.

    Rural sports continue to develop. The province has established 16 national and provincial demonstration bases for farmers’ physical fitness activities. In 2023, 4,091 "Four Games" of rural sports were held, and "Village Super" and "Village BA" and other events flourished everywhere.

    We will further promote the integration of sports and health, start 304 pilot projects of sports and health integration, and innovatively carry out the "Joint Action of Paying Attention to Adolescent Spinal Health". Regularly carry out national physical fitness testing, and provide testing and fitness guidance services to more than 100,000 people every year.

    At the same time, every year, our province carries out "Sports Volunteer and Civilized Practice", national fitness volunteer preaching, champion charity trip and other national fitness volunteer service activities, and has created 151 provincial-level national fitness volunteer service excellent sites. Forty-four projects were selected into the National Library of National Fitness Volunteer Service, and three projects were selected into the excellent cases of National Fitness Volunteer Service in 2023.