Bozhou: The Corner of the City Transformed into the “Golden Penh and Silver Horn” of Fitness and Sports

The transformation of the abandoned factory building into a sports venue convenient for mass fitness is one of the highlight measures taken by the Bozhou Municipal Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports, which is used to provide the high-quality national fitness public services. The biggest feature of this is the use of the “Phnom Penh and Silver Horn” plot to build a fitness venue, and thus build a comprehensive, full-cycle fitness system.

In recent years, Bozhou City has built a number of community cultural and sports centers using the PPP model. These cultural and sports centers located in the middle of the community provide comprehensive services such as sports, culture, fitness, education, and leisure for the community masses, which greatly facilitates the lives of the masses. In view of the problem that some communities do not have suitable venues to build cultural and sports centers, the Bozhou Municipal Culture, Tourism and Sports Department boldly innovates, encourages and guides some social capitalists to devote themselves to the construction of cultural and sports facilities. And the Bozhou Municipal Culture, Tourism and Sports Department strives to provide more people with nearby fitness places to meet the needs of the masses for the high-quality cultural and sports life. Tengfei Junior Basketball Club is one of the typical examples.

“How to use the logic of the market and the power of capital to promote the construction of sports facilities? This is a subject with a lot of gold content, and what we have to do is to fully leverage the power of capitalists and use the logic of the market to do things.” Zhang Xiuzhong, the director of the Bozhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports, said. Guiding social capitalists to participate in the provision of community fitness public service system, to some extent, is a solution to the questions of community residents, that is, “Where can we go for fitness?” and “How can we go for fitness?” This also allows community residents to “exercise as they please” at their doorstep.

Today, well-equipped, standardized community cultural and sports centers and sports clubs have been scattered in many places. It is understood that at present, 12 community cultural and sports centers have been built and operated in the urban area, receiving more than 1 million citizens, and the highest passenger flow of a single-day of a single museum is about 1200 people. Each center serves about 30,000 community residents in the surrounding community with a radius of 1.5 kilometers, which realizes the “15-minute fitness circle” for urban residents.

While the community cultural and sports centers are spread throughout the city, Bozhou city has also continuously expanded the construction of sports facilities and strived to improve the fitness facilities for the whole people. According to the needs of urban residents in the territory, Bozhou City also makes full use of the vacant land of public green spaces in the central urban area, the idle land at the end of the streets and alleys, and the corners inside and outside the community, to build public sports venues and install fitness equipment according to local conditions, which continuously meets the public fitness needs of urban residents. At present, the “15-minute fitness circle” project in the central urban area has completed 11 phases of construction tasks, and there are 5374 indoor and outdoor venues such as basketball, badminton, table tennis, croquet, air volleyball, tennis, futsal fields and other indoor and outdoor venues on public plots and idle land, with a per capita field area of 5.14 square meters. In addition, combined with the city’s eastward and southward expansion and beautiful rural construction projects, the green space fitness paths, fitness trails, multi-functional fitness venues, etc. of municipal park, Lingxihu park, sports park and other parks have also been improved, which have become the beautiful scenery of the city and the fitness and leisure paradise of urban residents.

In the future, Bozhou City will further revitalize the city’s idle land and continue to improve the construction of the “15-minute fitness circle” project in the central urban area. At the same time, it will continue to make bold innovations, do a good job in the people’s livelihood with a real and practical style, and do a good job in serving the fitness of the masses. And by constantly reducing the time of the people’ “fitness circle” and increasing the fitness choices of the people, we believe that Bozhou City will do things better and more brilliantly.