On the morning of this (9) day, good news came from Australia that the 2025 World Games will be held in Chengdu! The world games, like the world police and the World Congress to be held in Chengdu, are world-class large-scale comprehensive games, the highest level international comprehensive games of non Olympic events. They promote and complement each other with the Olympic Games, and work together to promote the development of physical education and the spread of the Olympic spirit around the world. Chengdu is the first city in mainland China to host the world games. So, what is the charm of Chengdu?
The 48 hour investigation laid an important foundation for bidding for the World Games
According to the Red Star News reporter, on March 13 this year, Max bishop, vice president of the international World Games Federation (IWGA) and Joachim Gossow, chief executive officer, flew to Chengdu. Accompanied by Yu Zaiqing, vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee and vice president of the International Olympic Committee, they conducted a two-day inspection and evaluation on Chengdu's bid for the 2025 World Games. This IWGA's field visit to Chengdu laid an important foundation for Chengdu to successfully bid for the world games.
48 hours, 10 sites and 3 meetings. IWGA officials gave full affirmation to Chengdu's bid and spoke highly of Chengdu's urban environment. Max bishop, vice chairman of IWGA, said: 'Chengdu is the most populous city outside Europe that I have ever seen, and I have never met such a warm welcome. 'bidding for the World Games is also an important measure for Chengdu to create a world famous city.
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Joachim Gossow, IWGA's chief executive officer, said that they were greatly surprised by the visit. Chengdu is a very dynamic city with unlimited future. IWGA is also an organization looking forward to the future. The achievements of Chengdu now inspire IWGA.
IWGA officials: Chengdu's concept of running games is highly consistent with IWGA
Chengdu is one of the cities with the highest proportion of sports population in China, and also one of the cities with the most sports vitality in China. In the past three years, there have been 56 international sports events and more than 160 Chinese advanced sports events. Joachim, IWGA CEO Gossow said: 'the World Games advocate economy in hosting games and encourage host cities to use the existing venues to host games. Of the venues set up for the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, 15 are existing venues, 4 are new venues planned to be built by Chengdu before the decision to bid for the 2025 World Games, and 1 is planned to be a standby venue. Chengdu will make reasonable layout, take into account the design and economy in hosting games The principle, this point, is highly consistent with our concept of running games. '
'I think Chengdu's efforts in environmental protection should serve as an example for the world. Because Chengdu is very serious about environmental protection and sustainable development. Environmental protection is a worldwide problem. Whether it is air pollution or global warming, we need to face it seriously. Chengdu has made very effective measures to consider environmental protection and sustainable development as a core element, which is very consistent with the purpose of IWGA. Because the purpose of IWGA is to hold competitions in a sustainable way. "After learning that Chengdu advocates green travel, has the top public transport system in China, and the harmless treatment rate of domestic waste in the city reaches 100%, and has promulgated the implementation plan of Chengdu Municipal Domestic Waste Classification and other measures on environmental protection, Max bishop, vice chairman of IWGA, said.
Chengdu stands out from the rest thanks to its profound history and international fashion
Chengdu has a long and unique history of successfully winning the right to host the 2025 World Games. Chengdu is a famous historical and cultural city in China, with a history of more than 4500 years of civilization and 2300 years of urban construction. It is the birthplace of ancient Chinese Shu civilization. There are Dujiangyan, Wuhou Temple, Dufu thatched cottage, Jinsha site and other historical sites in the area, and it is also the hometown of China's national treasure giant panda.
The characteristics of Tianfu culture, such as innovation and creation, elegance and fashion, optimism and inclusiveness, friendliness and public welfare, make Chengdu stand out from many bidding cities. At present, there are 17 international consulates and 285 top 500 enterprises in Chengdu. In 2018, Chengdu opened 12 international regular direct passenger and freight routes, and 114 International (regional) routes. Shuangliu International Airport, with an annual passenger throughput of 52.95 million, is the fourth largest airport in China, with 5.998 million international (regional) passengers / year, ranking 26th in the world's busiest airport. At the same time, regular freight transportation is carried out with 24 Eurasian cities through the 'Chengdu Europe train'. Chengdu Europe train runs 1591 trains in the whole year, with the largest number of trains in China. International Chengdu maintains close cultural exchanges with the rest of the world.
Chengdu sports talents have been prepared. Feng Zhe, champion of gymnastics Olympic Games, Ren Xi, champion of diving Olympic Games, Zheng Jie and Yan Zi, world tennis champions, and Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting, sisters of synchronized swimming champions, are all the pride of Chengdu Sports Circle. Based on the long tradition and development needs of sports culture, Chengdu proposes to build a world famous city for sports events, introduce more international sports events into Chengdu, let more citizens participate in sports, enhance their physique, make the whole city more dynamic, and promote more sustainable development of the city.
New economic and dynamic urban ecosystem is gradually forming
Chengdu, a city with slow life, fast pace and leisure, ranks in the forefront of Chinese cities in terms of new economic vitality. Chengdu is becoming the most suitable city for new economic growth. In 2018, Chengdu's GDP was 1.53 trillion yuan, with significant contributions to the electronic information industry, automobile, equipment manufacturing, food, biomedicine and tourism industries, and strong development in aerospace, rail transit, energy conservation and environmental protection, new materials and new energy industries; it focused on the development of six new economic forms, namely digital economy, intelligent economy, green economy, creative economy, flow economy and sharing economy.
Chengdu adheres to the new urban development concept of "innovation, coordination, green, opening and sharing", aims to build a beautiful park city with a harmonious and unified environment and industry, and through the urban strategy of "three cities and three capitals", continuously accelerates the pace of building a world famous cultural and creative city, a tourism city, a sports city and an international food city, a music city and a convention and exhibition city. At present, 16900 kilometers of Tianfu greenway and 1275 square kilometers of Longquan Mountain Urban Forest Park have achieved remarkable results, and a huge urban ecosystem is gradually forming. In 2018, GaWC, the world's most famous city rating agency, rated Chengdu as a beta + city. Chengdu's development potential and ability to connect with the world are increasing.
The arrival of the 2025 World Games in Chengdu will be an important booster for Chengdu to build a world famous city.