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Construction of sports facilities to speed up


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Suzhou National Fitness Work Steering Committee held its annual meeting on Aug 8, announcing to steadily accelerate the construction of a number of major sports-themed projects and sports facilities. Among these projects and facilities are the Sports-themed Grand Canal Park, East Sports & Leisure Park, SIP Sports Center, Jinji Lake Fitness Footpath, Guangfu National Hiking Trail and Changshu Yushan Ring Footpath.

Actually, Suzhou has been making great efforts to implement the national fitness strategy in recent years. This is proved by increasingly diversified public fitness events and competitions, and expanded sports facilities. Currently, Suzhou has 263 sports associations and more than 1,600 sports clubs with over 900,000 members. The local government has invested RMB2.5 billion in sports projects over the past three years, including RMB1.8 billion in national fitness projects.

Gusu Evening News
August 9, 2017