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The 7th Military World Games

Emblem of the 7th Military World Games

Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, November 24 (Reporters Mei Changwei, Zhu Bin ) As the Ministry of National Defense held a special press conference in the beautiful river city of Wuhan on the 24th, the seventh Military World Games is one step closer to the opening. As the first World Military Games hosted by our country, this Games is particularly eye-catching. Xinhua News Agency reporters interviewed authoritative departments and sorted out six relevant knowledge points.

Mascot of the 7th Military World Games

Knowledge Point 1: What is the Military World Games?

The World Military Games is a large-scale comprehensive sports meeting with the highest standards for global military personnel organized by the International Military Sports Council. It is held every four years and lasts for 7 to 10 days. There are 24 basic competition events. With a scale of more than 100 countries, it is second only to the Olympic Games in scale. It is an important platform for the militaries of various countries to display their strength and image, enhance friendly exchanges, and expand international influence during peacetime. It is known as the "Military Olympics".

In 1995, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II and the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, the first Military World Games was held in Rome, the capital of Italy. This is the first time in history that armies from all over the world have gathered in a peaceful environment for a sports event. The second to sixth military games were held in Croatia, Italy, India, Brazil and South Korea respectively.

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Knowledge point 2: When and where will the 7th Military World Games be held?

On May 21, 2015, the International Military Sports Council held its 70th Congress and officially confirmed that my country will be the host country for the 7th Military World Games and Wuhan, Hubei Province will be the host city. According to the arrangement, the sports meeting is scheduled to be held from October 18 to 27, 2019, with a 10-day competition period.

Publish the Games emblem, mascot, and slogan

Knowledge Point 3: What competition events are set up in the Seventh Military World Games?

The Wuhan Military Games plans to set up 27 competition events, including air force pentathlon, archery, badminton, basketball, boxing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, golf, judo, military pentathlon, and navy pentathlon. Events, modern pentathlon, orienteering, skydiving, sailing, shooting, swimming (including diving, water lifesaving), table tennis, taekwondo, track and field (including marathon), triathlon, volleyball (including beach volleyball), wrestling*** There are 25 competition events and 2 performance events in tennis and men's gymnastics. Among them, four sports including badminton, table tennis, men's gymnastics and tennis entered the World Military Games for the first time.

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Knowledge point 4: The emblem, mascot and slogan of the 7th Military World Games

The emblem of the Games is called "Bonds of Peace and Friendship" , composed of "five-pointed star", "peace dove", "ribbon", "7" and other elements. The "five-pointed star" highlights the characteristics of the army and soldiers. The seven "five-pointed stars" imply that under China's initiative of "adhering to peaceful development and building a community with a shared future for mankind", soldiers from all over the world gathered in the Jiangcheng Wuhan to celebrate the peace event. ; The corner of the first star above shows the shape of a "peace dove", which means that China will convey the concept of peaceful development to the international community through this military sports event. The "ribbon" shape of the emblem not only symbolizes China's "Belt and Road" international cooperation vision in the new era, but also resembles the natural landforms where the Yangtze River and the Han River meet in Wuhan, highlighting China's peaceful development concept and regional cultural characteristics; the ribbon is in the shape of a "7", It symbolizes that Wuhan will host the 7th Military World Games.

The mascot is named "Bingbing", and its design is inspired by the Chinese sturgeon, a first-level protected wild animal in China and a migratory fish species in the Yangtze River Basin.

The angular appearance of the Chinese sturgeon and its habit of swimming upstream and migratory are highly consistent with the tough and tough temperament of soldiers; as a living creature in the water, the Chinese sturgeon symbolizes China's cultural thought of using softness to overcome hardness and being able to move with ease; the Chinese sturgeon contains the word "中华" and is mainly Living in the Yangtze River Basin indicates the identity of the host; the Chinese sturgeon species is rare and has a long history, and needs to increase protection and publicity efforts to fully reflect the humanistic care and ecological protection concepts of the Military Games; the mascot is named "Bingbing", It means a soldier, with a simple pronunciation, catchy, and easy to promote; the mascot has a lively and cute shape, which is easy to be accepted and loved by people all over the world. Its sunny, confident smile, open arms, and forward shape symbolize the new era. China is willing to share friendship and build peace with friends from all over the world in a more open, inclusive and hospitable manner.

The slogan of the Games is "Military glory World

peace". It embodies the purpose of the International Military Sports Competition of "Sports Spreading Friendship" and expresses the unanimous voice of the host China and military athletes from all over the world to "share friendship and build peace together".

Wuhan City Landscape

Knowledge Point 5: Compared with the past, what are the characteristics of the Seventh Military World Games?

The 7th Military World Games is the largest in the history of the Military World Games, with the largest number of participants and the most influential. Compared with previous editions, it has the following main features:

First, for the first time, all competition events are held in one city. As a megacity, Wuhan has built and renovated all the competition venues required for the 27 competition events. It has excellent hardware facilities and advanced software and information technology systems. This is unprecedented in previous World Military Games.

The second is the first centralized construction of a new athletes’ village. The Military Sports Village, located on the bank of Huangjia Lake in Jiangxia District, covers an area of ??321.53 acres, with a total construction area of ??558,000 square meters. It is close to the 2,700-meter ecological lake shoreline and has a superior natural environment. It can accommodate more than 10,000 participating athletes and officials.

Third, the number of competition items is the largest ever. The previous Military World Games had a maximum of 24 competition events, while the Wuhan Military Games had 27 competition events.

Knowledge Point 6: How is the construction progress of the venues and facilities for the 7th Military World Games?

The sports meeting venues and facilities are planned and constructed in accordance with the principles of "meeting event needs, facilitating event organization, reflecting green ecology, and benefiting post-game utilization". It is planned to use 31 competition venues and facilities, of which 10 will be newly built and renovated. 21. These venues and facilities are distributed in four areas on both sides of the main axis of the Yangtze River in Wuhan. Except for the Navy Pentathlon, each venue is within a 40-minute drive from the Athletes Village.

At present, 11 projects have started construction (8 new projects, 3 maintenance and renovation projects), accounting for 35 of the total number of projects, and the remaining 20 projects are in the early preparation stage. . All projects will be completed by the end of June 2019.