From the day the bid was successful and the right to hold the 17th Provincial Games was granted, Changzhou once again made a solemn promise to lift the city's strength to "make the 17th Provincial Games the most wonderful, successful, successful and unforgettable Games in the history of the Provincial Games".
Four years, from the economic security, city appearance to the organization of the competition, conference arrangements; from the cultural extravaganza, news and publicity to the participation in the preparations, safety and security, the people of Changzhou, a promise, go all out, non-stop, day and night.
Time flies, four years have passed.
The Dragon City opened its arms and proudly hailed:
The 17th Provincial Games, welcome!
Changzhou is ready!
New modern sports facilities
Gaining the right to host the 17th Provincial Games, Changzhou's rapid sports construction and development is remarkable.
In the second half of 2007, a total investment of 1.4 billion yuan, the first-class Changzhou Olympic Sports Center was put into operation, so that the quality and quantity of Changzhou's sports resources to achieve a double leap. Today, Changzhou has more than 10,000 indoor seats in gymnasiums, more than 40,000 seats in stadiums, and 30 standard swimming lanes. Under the operation of Changzhou Sports Bureau and Sports Industry Company, large-scale international and domestic competitions such as China Badminton Masters Tournament, National Diving Star Showcase, China Trampoline "Ten Years of Splendor" Celebration, 2008 Adidas U19 National Winner's Cup Soccer Match and so on have been introduced one after another, and more than one million Changzhou citizens have enjoyed the "home excitement". The "home of the wonderful".
For this year's Provincial Games, Changzhou has selected 25 stadiums from a wide range of sports resources as venues for the games. Of these 25 stadiums or arenas, the vast majority have the facilities and conditions to host national-level events, have accumulated experience in hosting international, national and provincial competitions, and have teams of staff and volunteers who provide high-quality and efficient services for the event. The provincial games will be held in Longcheng, and the stadiums will be more cheerful. We look forward to the province's sportsmen and women to show off their skills and achieve great results on the modernized stage of competition built in Changzhou.
Fast and convenient transportation conditions
Changzhou, now has jurisdiction over the cities of Jintan and Liyang and five administrative districts including Wujin, Xinbei, Tianning, Zhonglou and Qishuyan. The city has a total area of 4,385 square kilometers and a household population of 3,587,400; of which the urban area is 1,864 square kilometers with a population of 2,258,600.
The Dragon City of Changzhou, which is located on the Yangtze River in the north and the Taihu Lake in the south, is crossed by the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and six expressways such as the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, the Ning-Hangzhou Expressway, the Yanjiang Expressway, the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, etc.; the Changzhou Port on the Yangtze River is a class one open port of the country, with an annual throughput of more than 20 million tons of goods; and the Changzhou Airport of the civil aviation of 4D class has connections to more than 20 cities, such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Beijing, Shenyang, Harbin and so on, 4D civil aviation Changzhou Airport has access to Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Beijing, Shenyang, Harbin and other more than 20 cities routes, in September this year, the completion of the expansion of Changzhou Airport will be upgraded and upgraded. Changzhou City, the main framework of the expressway, has been completed "a vertical and two horizontal" of the first phase of the elevated road, a total length of 29.2 kilometers, of which 26 kilometers of elevated road. Changzhou's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has the characteristics of fast speed, large capacity, etc., providing comfortable, preferential, fast, punctual and high-quality public transportation services for travel.
New and beautiful urban landscape
Since the reform and opening up, Changzhou urban landscaping and greening construction is booming at an unprecedented rate. 2008, Changzhou was officially named "National Garden City" by the Ministry of Construction. At present, the total area of green space in the built-up area of Changzhou reaches 5118.3 hectares, the green space rate reaches 38.2%, the green coverage rate reaches 42.2%; the per capita public **** green space in the urban area is 12.3 square meters; there are 46 provincial-level garden-type districts, 118 provincial-level garden-type units, parks, squares, green spaces, and riverfront green space in 57 places.
In accordance with the "residents travel about 300 meters there is a park of about 3,000 square meters of green space, residents travel about 1,000 meters there is a park of about 20,000 square meters of green space, each city cluster at least one 20 hectares above the planning of parks and green space," the construction of the goal of the original fee-paying parks of Changzhou to carry out Renovation and expansion, at the same time, a large number of new large parks and green spaces, the realization of the city's municipal parks are all free and open, won the national and Jiangsu Province, "Habitat Environment Example Award".
Harmonious and moving civilized new wind
The prologue of the provincial games opened, 5,000 volunteers for the games, 50,000 social volunteers on the stage of volunteer service of the provincial games.
At present, Changzhou*** has 41 group members such as volunteer associations, chapters and service teams, and more than 2,200 volunteer service organizations at all levels under its jurisdiction, with more than 270,000 people registered. The volunteers include students in their teens as well as old people with gray hair. They contribute their efforts to welcome the provincial games, serve the provincial games and protect the provincial games, display the image of civilized Changzhou with civilized and enthusiastic, high-quality and high-efficient volunteer services, make the brand of volunteer services famous, and make the provincial games more wonderful with perfect performance, so that the Dragon City will be more harmonious.
The theme activities of the volunteer service year organized by Changzhou City mainly include nine actions in three major aspects. In welcoming the provincial games, mainly to carry out etiquette publicity and education display, traffic control, window quality service and other activities; in the service of the provincial games, mainly to carry out the games volunteer service, urban volunteer service, social volunteer service and other actions; in the protection of the provincial games, focusing on the safe community protection action and 10,000 volunteers into the new rural areas of action.
Warm and considerate reception services
The event meets guests from all directions, and the Dragon City plays a welcome song. 2010's autumn, Changzhou will gather tens of thousands of athletes, coaches and staff from all over the province, and the reception involves more than 70 hotels in the city's 26 venues, which is the most for all the Provincial Games.
Changzhou tourism reception units, "the most wonderful, perfect, most successful, most memorable" commitment to the meeting as the goal, update the service concept, strict service standards, improve the level of operation, to ensure that guests to Changzhou guests at home, enjoy a safe and comfortable life during the games, with the cleanest environment, the best sanitation, the most safe facilities for the Provincial Games guests. With the cleanest environment, the best sanitary conditions and the safest facilities, the hotel will provide the guests of the Provincial Games with warm and considerate services of the highest quality, full of humanization, and fully demonstrate the good atmosphere of harmonious Changzhou and peaceful Changzhou.
The hotels and guest houses in Changzhou are of different genres and styles, but the services of each one of them reflect the hospitality and meticulousness of the people of Changzhou. Changzhou Hotel, Fudu Trade Hotel and other leading star hotels, noble atmosphere, meticulous; Xiangshuwan Garden Hotel as the representative of the characteristics of the hotel is full of humanistic flavor characteristics; and Taihu Bay Jinling Hotel, Liyang Tianmu Lake Hotel and other leisure resort hotels are based on the mountains, comfortable and cozy ...... In addition to a variety of affordable tourist hotels And small and exquisite, comfortable and at ease. All the hotels and restaurants in Changzhou will welcome friends from all over the province with the enthusiasm of the festivals and the exquisite and warm service.
The Cultural Festival
Changzhou is a young and ancient city with a written history of more than 3,000 years. It is a hot land that has nurtured many ancient and modern masters and giants, and has gathered many Changzhou elements and Dragon City stories in Chinese culture, forming a thick cultural heritage and abundant cultural resources.
Today, Changzhou will use its precious cultural deposits to set up the stage for the 17th Provincial Games, and will also create an artistic atmosphere, inspirational classics and a bridge of friendship for this event.
Shocking gorgeous opening ceremony: October 11, 2010 AD, the unprecedented opening ceremony of the 17th Provincial Games, will be in the "soul, shock, beauty" under the effect of the unity, spreading a magnificent cultural scroll, playing a beautiful music epic, showing a poetic and picturesque stunning Changzhou, rendering a downward spiral. Rendering a splendid night of ups and downs--
Soul: the collision and dialog between the unique humanistic flavor and the cultural trend of the times, illuminating into the history and the reality of a pool of cultural living water.
Shock: from the creative innovation and contemporary science and technology, three-dimensional, multi-element, multi-structural embodiment of the way, will bring "grand, bright, full of characteristics" of the new feeling.
Aesthetics: artistic expression from life and higher than life, fully mobilizing artistic modeling means, through sound, light, electricity, film and other means to create an artistic atmosphere, so that people by the true, good, beautiful inculcation and infection.
Superstar bright closing performance: with the theme of happiness, show the harmony of the opening ceremony echoed the closing ceremony of the provincial games will be a superstar bright, enthusiastic and warm at the same time, but also warm and touching the joy of the ceremony.
This joyful feast is a carnival - a successful Games, a happy party, a star-studded star song, superstars, surprises, will set off a storm of joy in the Dragon City; is a beautiful, colorful audio-visual feast, set, music, choreography, lighting, special effects, etc., the use of the song storytelling, the use of the song, the song will be the most important thing in the world. It is a beautiful audio-visual feast with scenography, music, choreography, lighting, special effects and other means to present the storytelling, visualization and behavior of the songs; it is a joyous celebration of sports stars, athletes and all walks of life.
The friendly atmosphere of the province as a family
As the host of the 17th Provincial Games, Changzhou not only has to arrange, organize and serve the wonderful events well, but also has to pass on the prosperous culture, harmonious atmosphere, and strong friendship to every sportsman and guest to create a good atmosphere of "Jiangsu family, the province as a family", which is a good atmosphere of "Jiangsu family, the province as a family. "This is one of the main goals we set for this event. We will through the "Harmonious Provincial Games Jiangsu love" series of activities, the people, the city and the province of the fusion of feelings, the athletes, coaches, referees and the general audience fusion, cultivate a new concept of sports, **** new sports glory.
"Harmonious Provincial Games Jiangsu love "*** have 6 series of activities, most of which were organized and implemented before the meeting. Among them, there are "media through the United narrative affection", that is, by the province's media, including newspapers, radio, television, Internet, newsletters, etc., to the provincial Games as a clue to the city as a plate, one by one focused on reporting the province's economic and social development of the city's highlights and the characteristics of culture and sports; there is a "colorful car north and south to pass friendship "activities, that is, the unified organization of sports caravans, touring the province's sports profile and development experience; "Danqing Hanmo Zanxiang" activities, that is, the organization of high-level calligraphy, painting, photography, philately, essays and other exhibitions and displays; "fitness for all Expressions of pride "activities, including organ cadres fitness run, bicycle race around the city, 10,000 people walking, wedding marathon, etc.; "singing and dancing show passion" activities, including cultural and artistic exhibitions, mass cultural and artistic performances, large-scale concerts, "Longcheng Spring Rhythm" and other dozens of cultural and artistic performances; and "Sponsorship of the event to show great affection", that is, by the provincial games special sponsors or service providers, provincial games suppliers, franchisees, etc. to provide funds, products and services, to share the glory of this huge brand, to express the industrial and commercial sector from the provincial games of a piece of deep love.
Distinctive Dragon City Tourism
After entering the 21st century, the development of Changzhou's tourism industry has produced a blowout effect, with the emergence of a number of prestigious tourist attractions, and the initial formation of a group of tourism brand products. Changzhou not only became the first Chinese excellent tourist city in the new century, but also the total tourism economy and tourism reception rankings jumped to the fourth place in Jiangsu Province and maintained for seven consecutive years; not only the neighboring areas of the tourists come in droves, but also Beijing, Tianjin and other places have thousands of large groups of people come to the name of the city. 2009 total tourism revenue reached 28.24 billion yuan, received 23.734 million domestic and foreign tourists.
At present, Changzhou has the following tourism resources: (1) 1 national 5A tourist area -- Universal Dinosaur City; (2) 1 provincial tourist resort -- Tianmu Lake Tourist Resort; (3) 7 national 4A tourist areas --Tianmu Lake Tourist Resort, Tianning Zen Temple, Hongmei Park, Nanshan Bamboo Sea, Maoshan Tourist Scenic Area, Asia Film and Television City, Changzhou Museum; (4) 15 national 2A and 3A tourist areas, (5) 18 national industrial and agricultural tourism demonstration sites, including Wu Chu Farming Culture Park, Shisi Garden, Dashishan Tourist Farm, Jiangnan Peacock Garden, Aojin Crocodile Garden, Sanqin Agricultural Ecological Park, Mujia Village, Bichun Yuan, etc..
The thriving economy of Changzhou
Changzhou is one of the birthplaces of modern Chinese industry. After the reform and opening up, Changzhou was the "first to rise" and created the "Changzhou experience" on the road of China's industrialization development, winning the praise of "China's industrial star city". As one of the "Top Ten Cities in China's Innovation Environment", Changzhou has been awarded the title of "National Advanced City in Science and Technology Progress" for 12 consecutive years, and was awarded the honor of "No.1 in China's City Government's Innovation Ability" in 2009. In 2009, Changzhou was awarded the honor of "No. 1 City Government Innovation Capability in China".
In recent years, on the basis of five key industries, including equipment manufacturing, electronic information, new energy, new materials and biomedicine, Changzhou has been striving to build product clusters of power transmission and transformation equipments, computers and telecommunication equipments, digital audio-visual and electronic components, solar photovoltaic products, polymer materials, bioengineering and pharmaceuticals, and its pillar economy has entered the fast lane of sustainable development. The pillar economy of Changzhou has entered the fast lane of sustainable development.
In 2009, the city had more than 5,000 industrial enterprises above scale, covering 34 of the 46 industrial industry categories of the national economy. The annual gross regional product realized 250 billion yuan, an increase of 11.5% at comparable prices, and the per capita household level exceeded 10,000 US dollars. The total fiscal revenue was completed 681.7 yuan, of which the local general budget revenue exceeded 20 billion yuan, reaching 21.59 billion yuan, an increase of 16.6% year-on-year. The investment in fixed assets of society as a whole amounted to 170.48 billion yuan, the total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 90.14 billion yuan, the total import and export of foreign trade amounted to 15.08 billion U.S. dollars, the disposable income per capita of urban residents was 23,751 yuan, the net income per capita of peasants was 11,198 yuan, and the registered unemployment rate of cities and towns was controlled at 4%.
City landmark of China's best
The famous Changzhou Tianning Zen Temple was once a landmark complex in Changzhou. The temple was built during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, more than 1,300 years ago, and is one of the key Buddhist temples in the country.
In order to honor and welcome the grand event, Changzhou rebuilt the Tianning Pagoda, which was destroyed in the Song Dynasty, and opened it to the public in 2007. Tianning Pagoda *** 13 floors, using the Tang and Song styles of octagonal flying eaves, the form of dignified, magnificent, a record of the national pagoda of the eight first: the country's first gold roof jade tower; the first time to use the bronze inscription tiles; with the largest scale of the Buddhist scriptures monument forest; the top of the tower hangs a 3.2-meter-high, 15-ton first big bell; with eight bright and eight dark **** 16 dungeons, is the largest number of dungeon group; Pagoda base surrounded by 500 Luohan like granite relief, 130 meters long, 2.8 meters high, the most in the country; Pagoda base fence with 999 white jade pagodas surrounded by the formation of imposing the first national tower forest; Tianning Pagoda full height of 153.79 meters, is the country's highest well-deserved pagoda, but also makes Changzhou has the most of China's most urban landmarks.
Wish the 17th Provincial Games of Jiangsu Province a complete success!