A sports meeting for rural people County was held in Sports Center, Ningbai on June 25. government officials in the county who attended the sports meeting included Xie Qunhua, Guo Rufen, Wang Laowang, You Lingjuan and Zhao Xiuping. Guo Ruiping hosted the opening ceremony of the sports meeting.

It is said that the first rural sports meeting in Ninghai County was held to see how well sports had developed in the past few years. At the same time, the sports meeting was expected to promote the implementation of Outline of the Nationwide Body-building Plan and to promote scientific bodybuilding. The sports items in the meeting included shot putting, basketball, 100-meter race, 400-meter race, mountain-climbing and tug-of-war. Sports teams were organized according to the districts where they lived. Sportsmen should be peasants, fishermen, employees and private owners in the county.

You Lingjuan, the subprefect of Ninghai County and honorary director of the Organizing committee of the First Rural Sports Meeting, addressed the opening speech. She said that athletic sports is an important carrier of ideological, intellectual, moral and civic education in rural areas. It is also an important part of New-countryside Construction. In recent years, Ninghai government attached great importance to athletic sports in the county and pay special attention to the improvement of living standard of people in the county. While providing service for the people, the government tried every means to improve sports facilities and wage a bodybuilding campaign in order to meet the people’s spiritual demand. People in the county have been more and more interested in body-building and sports. You Lingjuan added that the sports meeting was expected to promote the mass fitness program and push forward the development of sports in the county.

Ye Qunhua, the vice party secretary of Ninghai County, declared the opening of the sports meeting.