Citizens Welcome the New Year, Pass on Good Visions

       On the afternoon of the 2nd day of the Lunar Year, Mr. Wang, who lives in Ganjingzi District, spent good time with his relatives and friends by doing sports in the badminton hall of the Sports Center. ‘Fitness has become an essential part of my life. I could not slack during the Spring Festival holidays.’ For this Spring Festival, more and more citizens have made full use of the Spring Festival holidays to ‘move legs’, and welcome the New Year with sports.

       The Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games falls on the Spring Festival holidays. Therefore, the craze of celebrating the New Year by doing sports has swept the city. ‘During this Spring Festival holidays, we can not only watch the Spring Festival Gala but also cheer up athletes taking part in the Winter Olympic Games in front of TV. We cannot wait for doing sports outdoors,’ said Ms. Sun, who came to the Sports Center for outdoor exercises. Sports activities not only enable citizens to feel the vigorous powers but also provide warmth of getting together and doing sports together with family members in the festival.

       During the Spring Festival holidays of this year, in order to satisfy citizens’ fitness demands, each stadium of the Sports Center was open to fitness fans for free. The number of people coming to the Sports Center exceeded that of the last year. There were also a large number of people coming to inquire about and purchase ‘smart cards’. It is nothing new to give fitness cards to each other as gifts. More and more juniors have given fitness cards to elders to express reverence for the elderly. On the 6th day of the Lunar Year, Mr. Liu, the fitness coach, bought the ‘smart card’ for his father. He said that he would teach his father how to swim this year and accompany his father to do exercises and keep fit.

       With the development of mass fitness activities, in this Spring Festival, people have expressed their simplest New Year’s wish ‘good health’ by doing physical fitness exercises, and passed on the good vision ‘healthy China’.