Huanggang City Games happens every few years

The Huanggang City Sports Games are held every few years: every four years

The Huanggang City Sports Games are held every four years. The first, second and third sports games are organized by the city respectively. Organized by the People's Government, Huangmei County and Wuxue City. Starting from the second sports meeting, a bidding system will be adopted, with counties and cities taking turns to host the games. On September 25, 2023, the Sixth Huanggang Sports Games concluded in Luotian.

The specific content of the press conference on the Sixth Huanggang Sports Games is as follows:

Introducing the overall preparations for the Sixth National Games, the arrangement of finals week events and the opening and closing ceremonies. , answer questions of social concern and media concern.

The Huanggang City Games is held every four years. It is the city’s largest comprehensive sports event with the largest number of participants, the most complete competition items, and the highest level of competition. It is a big competition between the sports strength of the relevant municipal systems. The first five competitions were held in Huangzhou, Huangmei, Wuxue, Xishui and Qichun.

It is reported that the Sixth National Games of Huanggang City will open in Luotian on September 20. The opening ceremony has four parts, namely warm-up performance, which lasts about 25 minutes; opening ceremony, which lasts about 35 minutes; cultural and sports performance, which lasts about 50 minutes; and lighting ceremony, which lasts about 10 minutes. The opening ceremony is expected to last 120 minutes. The closing ceremony has 11 items on the agenda, including the City Games flag handover ceremony, etc. Preliminary estimates indicate that there will be about 5,000 actors and audiences during the opening ceremony and about 3,000 during the closing ceremony.

Yu Mi, director of Huanggang Sports Development Center, introduced that this year’s Games will consist of 43 sports and 580 minor competitions in two categories: youth sports and mass sports, with participants covering teenagers and employees. There are 7 categories: farmers, police officers, disabled people, middle-aged and elderly people and ethnic minorities. The oldest among the participating athletes is 70 years old and the youngest is 6 years old.

Compared with the organization of previous events, this year’s Municipal Games has the most complete set of events, adding ice and snow events and ethnic minority events for the first time; it has the largest number of participants, with 11,000 athletes participating in the competition, creating a record The best in all previous city games.