This provincial sports meeting is the first large-scale comprehensive sports meeting held in Jiangsu Province after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. * * * has 80 sports, including 37 youth sports, 0/5 college sports, 0/3 staff sports, and 0/5 group sports. The total number of participants is about 35,000.
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The 19th Provincial Games is the largest, longest-lasting and most attended event in Yangzhou since the reform and opening-up. The Yangzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government demand that the whole city should exert its strength, gather the wisdom of the whole people and pour the feelings of the whole city, and strive to make the 19th Provincial Games a distinctive and colorful sports event. At present, the main hardware projects necessary for hosting the provincial games have been basically completed, and some old sports facilities are being upgraded.
20 15128, Yan zhengming, deputy director of Jiangsu provincial sports bureau, said in his speech at the 5th Gaoyou city sports meeting that he hoped Gaoyou would seize the opportunity that Yangzhou city will host the 19th Jiangsu provincial sports meeting in 20 18, vigorously develop sports undertakings, extensively carry out nationwide fitness exercises, continuously enhance people's physique, and promote the all-round development of mass sports and competitive sports. Better meet the people's fitness needs, add motivation and cohesion to accelerate the construction of a "strong, rich, beautiful and high" new Gaoyou, and make new and greater contributions to "taking a new step and building a new Jiangsu".