Fujian province 2023 US Country basketball competition ended in Jinjiang, Quanzhou on the 12th. Since the start of the match on July 6, four venues have been distributed in the villages and towns around Jinjiang. Every night, the stadium is full and the shouting is shocking.
The country basketball game is behind the hot circle in Jinjiang, which is the profound background and industrial confidence of local basketball.
People love watching
Dongpu village is the host of the opening battle of the Fujian country basketball competition. The stadium here is the most popular one in this competition. At the peak, it attracted tens of thousands of spectators to watch the competition here.
Ke Wenmo, who lives in qibian village, Yinglin Town, Jinjiang city, is 71 years old this year. During the competition, he had to walk to Dongpu Stadium at a time when the flow of people was not intensive, just to occupy a broad audience in advance.
When he was young, Ke Wenmo served in the Army for 6 years. During this period, he fell in love with basketball. After leaving the Army, Ke Wenmo and basketball gradually drifted away because he wanted to make a living. In recent years, the basketball courts in Jinjiang have been built more and more. In addition to the busy farming, Ke Wenmo would also walk to the surrounding courts to see young people playing basketball, and occasionally he would shoot at the end.
“This time I watched the basketball game at home, which made me feel like watching the comrade-in-arms game in the army.” Ke Wenmo said.
Since the start of the country basketball competition, Cai Wenyi, a 61-year-old villager from Dongshi zhenyangzhai village, has also been on the court. “I can’t play, but I love watching. As long as there is a basketball game in Dongpu village, I will come here.”
During the competition, Wu Tianlong, a villager from Dongpu village, and the villagers spontaneously participated in the security work of the stadium, and constantly inspected and maintained order around the stadium.
“The atmosphere of basketball in Jinjiang is very strong. As long as there is a big game, the basketball court in our village will always be surrounded by three circles inside and three circles outside. Security is particularly important.” In Wu Tianlong’s view, basketball has become an indispensable part of the life of local villagers.
Profound
In fact, this is not the first time that Dongpu village has hosted such a large-scale basketball activity.
Dongpu village is a famous “basketball village” in Jinjiang. The basketball culture of this village can be traced back to the 1950 s and 1960 s. In recent years, with the continuous improvement of economic conditions, Dongpu village has successively built basketball Park, International Standard lighting the basketball court and other facilities, and has held more than ten high-level events one after another. In 2019, the 14th “Golden list Cup” college student basketball elite competition held by Dongpu village set the largest number of people watching the live broadcast of folk basketball matches at that time.
The rural basketball atmosphere in Dongpu village is a microcosm of the vigorous development of grassroots basketball in Jinjiang.
Xu black bamboo, director of Jinjiang Sports Bureau, said that the grassroots basketball in Jinjiang had been well carried out long before the country basketball game became popular. There were 1694 basketball venues in the city, covering all villages. “almost villages have basketball teams, basketball watch every day”.
Chen zongxu is the physical education teacher of Gutian No. 3 Middle School in Ningde city, and also the leader of the team of Hetang town in Ningde city. During these days in Jinjiang, he was deeply impressed by the local basketball atmosphere.
“Jinjiang’s rural basketball atmosphere and basketball level are a microcosm of Fujian. The quality of the players is good, the audience is enthusiastic, and the competition is professional, which is worth learning and learning.” Chen zongxu said.
Gene Code
In Xu black bamboo’s view, compared with other regions, Jinjiang’s grass-roots basketball has strong local characteristics-increasingly industrialized and specialized.
The vigorous atmosphere of basketball in Jinjiang gave birth to a group of basketball operation companies such as Fujian Yiding Sports Development Co., Ltd. and Jinjiang gold Diamand sports organization service company, covering competition organizations and online live broadcasts, driving referees, narrator, live broadcast, cheerleading, venue operation and other industrial chain development.
Village-level basketball game has also become an important platform for training basketball reserve talents. In recent years, Jinjiang has sent a large number of talents to training units above Quanzhou city level, colleges and universities, and a group of basketball talents with “national names” have emerged, such as Gong Songlin of the men’s basketball national team and Zhu Shilong, the famous coach of CBA. Last year, Zhang Jiaxu, Weng Jinlang and Wu Chongqi were also selected for U18 national youth men’s basketball.
In the view of Shi gold Diamand, the head of Jinjiang gold Diamand sports organization service company, basketball in Jinjiang has realized the organic combination of local and commercial sports, providing talents with room for improvement, this is also the gene and energetic code of Jinjiang basketball.
Xu black bamboo said that holding all kinds of competitions at all levels is an important part of building a “sports city” in Jinjiang. In the second half of the year, Jinjiang will also hold a series of large-scale events such as the 2023 international basketball Expo and the international basketball elite competition, which will continue to amplify the effect of the event and realize the effective integration of event resources with local industries, cultural tourism and other resources.
Liu Yudong, chairman of Fujian Basketball Association, said that in Fujian, the mass base of basketball is very wide, especially in Jinjiang area, and the technical level of folk basketball is in the leading position in the country, country basketball has a good future.
“People like this project, we must mobilize all resources and build a good platform.” Liu Yudong said that in the future, Fujian Basketball Association will do its best to provide as much support as possible for the development of rural basketball and make more people fall in love with basketball by running the competition, let more people know about the local rural culture.
(Text/Xinhua News Agency, Fuzhou, July 15, Liu Mohan, Li Haoze)
