The 15th Qingdao International Sailing Week and Qingdao International Marine Festival 2023grandly kicked off at the QingdaoOlympic Sailing Center on August11, starting a ten-day blue feastand carnival. “Nine Races and OneCamp” covering six sections including sailing events, maritimeleisure tourism, cultural ceremonies, Olympic sailing culture exchanges, sails and marine industry,and sailing popularization werecarried out, featuring 30 activitiesincluding races, exchanges, cultureand sports, business, exhibitions,and popularization, showcasing thefashion and vitality of Qingdao as a“Sailing City”.

Nowadays, to fully implementthe guiding principles of the 20thNational Congress of the Communist Party of China and acceleratethe construction of a “vibrant oceancity and a livable and lovable city”,Qingdao continues to actively integrate into the construction processof a maritime power and a sportspower, strives to realize the visionof the city, and enables itself to be aleading city in Shandong Province,a leading one in China, and a representative one in the world. It hasmade every effort to stand firm as aleading city in Asian sailing sportsand made contributions to buildingitself into a strong sports city and amodern socialist international metropolis in the new era.