Today, the "2016 Most Vibrant Cities in Sports Ranking" was released by People's Sports and People's Daily Online Public Opinion Monitor, with the support of Tsinghua University's Sports Industry Development Research Center. The list covers 334 prefecture-level administrative units and 4 municipalities directly under the central government, and quantitatively ranks the sports vitality of cities in terms of 4 relevant indicators: city events, city venues, national fitness, and sports vitality.
Sports competitions throughout the country
Marathon leads the event heat
The competition list*** selected 662 large-scale sports events held in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) in 2016 and announced on the news websites of local sports bureaus, which involved 227 prefecture-level administrative units. The statistics of the location of the race can be found, Beijing with 49 races topped the list, Shanghai with 33 ranked No. 2. It is worth mentioning that Wuhan, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Chengdu and so on also held more than 10 races, and all of them entered the top 10 of the overall list. event heat, half of the top 10 events are marathon races, the Beijing Marathon is to win the top of the heat list of the event.
Professional leagues, ****statistics of 189 league teams in 15 leagues, including the Chinese Super League, CBA, China League, women's volleyball, etc. These teams are distributed in 89 cities across the country, accounting for nearly 30% of the 338 cities. Among them, Beijing has 13 league teams, Shanghai 12, Jinan and Tianjin have 7 each, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu, Shijiazhuang, Shenzhen have 5 teams, only the above 10 cities involve 69 teams, accounting for 36% of all teams.
Through the competition list, it is not difficult to find out that large-scale sports events are spread all over the motherland, and although the professional league teams are concentrated in big cities, there are more and more cities with league teams.
City sports centers are well-built
The utilization rate of venues needs to be improved
The list of venues is a direct reflection of the construction and use of venues around the world, and the analysis of the data on this list is aimed at encouraging cities to carry out the construction of venues by organizing large-scale sports events or leagues, and to make rational use of venues according to the local conditions in order to promote the development of the sports industry. Statistics found that 201 of the 338 cities have sports centers, accounting for nearly 60% of the total. Sports centers are urban projects consisting of several types of venues such as stadiums, gymnasiums, swimming pools, etc. Most of the construction of sports centers is related to important sports events, but more and more sports centers are equipped with facilities oriented to mass sports such as national fitness centers and mass fitness trails, and the functions of the venues have gradually become more complete.
Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chengdu, Nanjing, Changchun, Guangzhou, Jinan, Urumqi and Hangzhou ranked in the top 10 of the venue list, with Shanghai, Beijing, and Tianjin in the top three in terms of venue utilization, and the higher utilization rates in the big cities are due to the fact that the cities have a large number of professional teams, and that the professional leagues are able to maximize the value of the venues. Chengdu, Changchun and Urumqi, while not dominating in terms of stadium construction, were ahead of the other cities in terms of utilization rate. However, it is worth noting that about 70% of the major venues in the cities did not host major tournaments or leagues in 2016, and the utilization rate of the venues still needs to be improved.
Fitness for All Becomes a National Strategy
Faster Development in Western Cities
Now that fitness for all has risen to a national strategy, the development of fitness for all has ushered in a new historical development opportunity, and the Fitness for All List has emerged. Discussed by the expert group, the National Fitness List*** selects 30 keywords with the highest heat, uses big data to analyze the heat of these keywords in 2016, and takes into account the number of people participating in national fitness in the place.
Statistics on the distribution of cities in the Top100 National Fitness List can be found that western cities*** accounted for 30 seats. Three western cities, Chongqing, Chengdu and Xi'an, made the top 10 of the list, with Chongqing taking the top spot on the national fitness list. The data shows that in addition to the good development of national fitness programs in the western region, the advantage of the number of people participating in national fitness is also more obvious.
Mass participation highlights sports vitality, sports tourism leads the development of sports industry
The sports vitality list selects projects related to the sports industry, and analyzes the heat of the projects. In the end, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Tianjin, Qingdao, Xi'an and Hangzhou ranked in the top 10 of the Sports Vitality List, and 8 of them were ranked in the top 10 of the GDP ranking in 2016, which shows that there is a strong positive correlation between sports vitality and economic development.
Through the user profile, it can be clearly seen that the age distribution of people participating in national fitness is relatively balanced at present. In terms of national fitness programs, the five programs with the highest level of participation are fitness, fishing, square dancing, running, and calisthenics, while traditional programs such as rice-planting songs and taijiquan, and novel programs such as yoga and taekwondo, also have a considerable amount of topic discussion. Sports+tourism such as mountain climbing, cycling, hiking and self-driving tours are the most common, and the development of sports tourism programs around the city has also largely contributed to the development of the local economy.
Conclusion: At this point, all of the "2016 China Sports Industry Wind and Cloud List" jointly released by People's Sports and People's Daily Online Public Opinion Monitoring Room have been released, including the "Most Influential Marathon Race Ranking", "Most Influential Cycling Events", "Sports Competition List of Chinese Colleges and Universities", and "Most Dynamic Cities". For more information, please click on People's Sports. The "2016 China Sports Industry Wind and Cloud Ranking".