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Seven Thematic Events in the Dalian Sports Center Will Keep You High throughout the Year

People’s Daily Online, May 10: The 2017 China-Iran Men’s Basketball Dual Match, the China League, the Chinese Women's Super League, the Dalian Four Country Men’s Basketball Invitation Tournament, the Dalian International Women’s Tennis Open, the "Cross Strait" cum Hong Kong Macao International Youth Handball Summer Camp, the Summer Davos Stars Concert ... It is known from yesterday’s 2017 Dalian Sports Center Annual Project Introduction Meeting that all the above mentioned international events and activities will be hosted in Dalian Sports Center. With that series of year-round culture and sports feasts alternatively coming on stage and the seven major themes shedding their shining highlights, the citizens of Dalian will have the luck to be kept high throughout the year just at their doorstep.

Currently, the culture and sports events hosted by Dalian Sports Center have all been set off underway, which include the following professional events: the 2017 China League, the 2017 Chinese Women's Super League, and the Dalian Four Country Men’s Basketball Invitation Tournament. From September 4 to 11, the 2017 Dalian International Women’s Tennis Open (WTA125 Series), which is of the largest scale and the highest professional standard in the Northeast China, will also be held here. By then, over 60 female professional tennis players from nearly 20 coutries and regions will show up their skills in these matches.

It is learned that since it hosted five events of the 12th National Games in the early days after its completion in 2013, the Sports Center has introduced and hosted many sports events. Up to now, with an openning rate of 100%, it has hosted over 1000 international and domestic sports events and large-scale vocal concerts, accommodating 2 million audience. What is particularly worth mentioning is its constantly available low-price ticket service introduced into some sports most favored by the citizens, such as swimming and tennis. So far, the Sports Center has accommodated 2.9 million spectators and 570 thousand gym rats, which has greately enriched the cultural and sports activities of local citizens.

According to Yu Guohong, the Deputy General Manager of Dalian Sports Center Investment, Development and Construction Co. Ltd., that apart from hosting higher standard sports events and artistic performances, the Sports Center will also improve its overall service standards by setting up a Crystal Cheer Squad, joining hands with qualified security companies to provide body guards for athletes and artists, instituting shuttle bus services for sports events, building a gourmet street, as well as by taking other specific measures. In the meantime, it will coordinate with related government offices to reconstruct the traffic facilities in its peripheral area so as to provide convenient traffic conditions for citizens to travel to and from the Sports Center. Yu Guohong said that, with the increasing popularity of the Sports Center, a brand new business model featured by experiential consumption would be gradually built up on the basis of the present mode of business operations, which would provide citizens with a entertainment and leisure-making complex that covers fitness sports, catering, recreation and shopping activities. Enhancing its popularity by creating new forms of activities, the Sports Center endeavors to become a new name card of Dalian and a first-choice venue for urban leisure entertainment, with the purpose of invigorating the development of the sports industry and mass fitness campaign in Dalian. (via People’s Daily Online)