The specific opening time of Nanyang Agricultural Games

At the press conference held at the preparatory meeting of Nanyang City for the Seventh National Peasants' Games, it was learned that the Seventh National Peasants' Games will be held in Nanyang, Henan Province in October 2012. At present, the preparations for the Agricultural Games are in full swing, and a nationwide collection of mascots and theme slogans for the Agricultural Games has begun. Market development work has also been started at the same time.

It is reported that this year’s Agricultural Games will set up competition events around the word “agricultural” and plan opening and closing ceremony performances. This Agricultural Games consists of track and field, basketball, swimming, shuttlecock, table tennis, Chinese wrestling, dragon boat, militia and military events, martial arts, fitness yangko, Chinese chess, dragon and lion dance, bicycle load-bearing, There are 15 major sports including kites and fishing, and 176 minor sports. By then, more than 30,000 athletes and people from all walks of life and more than 1,200 media reporters from 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan will enter the Central Plains to participate in the grand event. Provincial, municipal, and autonomous regions will organize delegations to participate, and party and state leaders will attend the event in person to announce the opening. The media will focus on it and the whole country will pay attention.

Our country is the only country in the world that regularly holds the Agricultural Games. The National Agricultural Games, the National Games, the Urban Games, the University Games and the Sports Conference are collectively known as the five major comprehensive sports games in our country. The National Farmers Games is a comprehensive sports event jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Sports General Administration and the China Farmers Sports Association, and is held every four years. Since it was held in 1988, it has been held six times in Beijing, Xiaogan, Shanghai, Mianyang, Yichun and Quanzhou respectively.