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Qingdao: from “Sailing City” to “Summit City”
青岛帆船网 2018-10-10 12:09:17 
  1. Qingdao: from“Sailing City” to“Summit City” 

White sails are spreading on the coastline of Fushan Bay, where the Qingdao Olympics Sailing Center that established Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit Hall with the theme of Flying to Pursue Dream and Setting Sail to the Pilot stands. In the past10 years, two grand events held here put it under the world’s spotlight twice.

Ten years ago, on August9th2008, the launching ceremony of Qingdao Olympics Sailing Games was held in the shore of Fushan Bay.400 excellent sailing and windsurfing athletes from65 countries and areas chased the wind and fought against with the tide for11 Olympics gold medals. In that summer filled with passion and youth, Qingdao held a“High Level and Featured Olympics Sailing Games”, added a splash of color to splendid Beijing Olympics Games and became an irreplaceable part of its success story. Among51 gold medals won by Chinese athletes, one is women’s windsurfing competition gold medal won by Yin Jian in Qingdao, which made breakthroughs in history.

10 years later, from the9th to10th June2018, the18th session of council of heads of SCO member countries was held in Qingdao. State heads or government heads from12 countries and directors from10 international organizations or agencies gathered in Qingdao. More than2,000 registered foreign guests and more than3,000 domestic and foreign journalists joined the summit. As the1st summit after SCO expanded, it is the2nd largest diplomatic event held in our country, and the highest level and largest scale event ever held in Qingdao. Big success achieved by the summit marks Qingdao entering the group of international modern metropolises. A more confident and open Qingdao shows in front of the entire world since then.

Song of victory is also the clarion of expenditure. In post-Olympics Games time, Qingdao consistently invests efforts to build city brand of“The City of Sailing” and achieved great success. Clipper Round the World Sailing Game, Volvo Ocean Race, International Extreme Sailing Game, and World Cup Sailing Game arrived at Qingdao one after another, making Qingdaobecame the city holding the most international grand sailing games in Asia. Excellent Qingdao sailors like Guo Chuan, Song Kun, Liu Xue, and Xu Jingkun frequently rewrote sailing history of China. Self-owned sailing games and festivals like Qingdao international sailing week & marine festival, Far East Cup international sailing rally race gained increasing fame. Sailing sports are entering campus and a batch of young sailors emerges just like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. With these extraordinary achievements, Qingdao was honored with Outstanding Contribution to World Sailing Sports Development Award and Ten Years Chase the Wind City Award by World Sailing Federation. During the past10 years, competitive sports and mass sports all gained great development in Qingdao. Qingdao athletes frequently sent out good news: in the2008 Beijing Olympics Games, Zhang Juanjuan who can hit targets at every shot beat down3 great shooters from South Korea and became the1st Olympics champion in the history of Qingdao. In the next two Olympics games, Qingdao famous Pingpong player Zhang Jike won3 gold medals. Now Qingdao has primarily established8-minute fitness circle and covered all rural residents with mass fitness projects. From2015 to2018, Qingdao has included“To Newly Establish100 Multifunctional Playgrounds Dominated by Cage Football Playgrounds” into actual deeds of municipal government for the4th consecutive year. In the past3 years, Qingdao has built312 playgrounds and opened to public.

Turning to  from“Sailing City”, Qingdao refreshed world’s eyes with brand new image, and also left the precious tangible and intangible wealth to city residents. The summit not only greatly enhanced international recognition and reputation of Qingdao, but also added more international elements to the city, helping it to attract international high level talent resources. It definitely will greatly boost development of export-oriented economy of Qingdao and level of internationalization.

Turning to“The City of Summit” from“The City of Olympics Sailing Games”, Qingdao achieved very rare development chance and kicked off its new development expenditure. Taking the summit as a new beginning, Qingdao will take advantage of current situation. Setting world advanced cities as benchmark; the city will make full use of comprehensive influence of the summit and upgrade work with international vision and world standards. It is targeted to be pilot in deepening economic and trade cooperation with SCO countries and pushing all work to the leading level.

[Qingdao Olympics Sailing Center in the bank of Fushan Bay.  By Wang Hua]

  1. SCO Qingdao Summit Exhibition Hall opened to the public

The SCO Qingdao Summit Exhibition Hall opened to the public in Qingdao Olympics Sailing Center on August8th.

The newly opened exhibition hall located within Olympics Sailing Museum, contains sections like summit preparation, result replay, and a souvenir show. Unique design art and digital tech bring excellent display effect of its space creative design and interaction experience, not only show preparation of SCO Summit in a3D way, but also enables visitors to experience more about SCO Summit with various forms like virtual replay and conference simulation, telling SCO Story with feeling of time in high standards and with new technologies.

It is reported that to establish the exhibition hall is aiming to enlarge summit effect, and to better inherit and carry forward SCO spirit, as well as to boost upgrade and development of Olympics Sailing tourism in all aspects. It integrates different drawing style of countries alongside the Belt and Road in the drawing scroll that drawn together, and abstract and enlarge Chinese traditional culture and humanitarian art elements in the hall to let every visitor touch the grand diplomatic event held in our country, and let them put precious spiritual wealth left by builders and partners joined SCO Qingdao Summit into mind.

In the opening ceremony, China Glory Porcelain as the supplier of porcelain products for SCO Qingdao Summit donated a whole set of porcelain products used in state banquet and conference. China Post Qingdao company donated a whole set of souvenir stamps SCO Qingdao Summit. (Hu Xiangyang)

[SCO Qingdao Summit Exhibition Hall attracted numerous visitors. By Hu Xiangyang] 

 

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