Since this year, competitions and base trainings held in the Sports Center have demonstrated diversified and internationalized trends, embracing a peak of youth sports in winter vocation.

       In September of this year, the Sports Center held WTA 125 Dalian International Women’s Open for the second time. Before the event, youth tennis competitions have become the highlight of event promotion. Since this July, the Sports Center has consecutively sponsored NIKE National Junior Tennis Ranking (the 11th Stop and 12th Stop of U16), “Panasonic · Bingshan Cup” Adolescent Tennis Competition, National Finals of “Zhengjie Cup” Teenager Tennis Tour and other youth tennis competitions, which has preheated International Women’s Open and stimulated the teenagers’ enthusiasm of participating in and watching tennis competitions. For base trainings, the sports center first accommodated youth football summer training camp teams outside of Dalian. Teenagers, who love football, interacted with Dalian professional football teams, saw their idols for themselves, had “zero-distance” contact with, trained and lived together with professional players based in the Sports Center, and communicated with Dalian local campus football clubs. Moreover, Yongguan Iron Kids Summer Camp integrating “swimming, bicycle, and running” attracted many kids having courage to face challenges to sign up for its novelty.

       Statistics shows that the number of competitions and base trainings held in the Sports Center has reached the peak. In July and August alone, approximately 2,000 kids from Dalian,Beijing, Jilin and Suzhou had trainings and competitions of football, tennis, swimming, bicycle, running, etc.

       Although the number of youth competitions in winter will reduce as affected by the weather, the Sports Center is exerting more efforts to create sound environment for youth competitions and base trainings in winter and increase the quality of youth sports in winter vocation.