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BEIJING, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

The 5th Shenyang International Open Regatta citizen rowing forum was held

recently in Shenyang, capital city of northeast China's Liaoning Province, as

part of the move to implement the city's strategy of national fitness and

powering the city with sports.

"We will, through excellent top-level design, expanding the rowing sport,

strengthening the rowing industry and shaping the rowing culture, accelerate

the deep integration of sports industry and urban development, and then make

rowing become a new way of national fitness, a new driving force for the

building of Shenyang in health, a new fashion of social life and a new driver

for economic growth," said Liu Kebin, head of Shenyang Municipal Sports Bureau.

The most distinctive feature of this forum is that the invited speakers are not

industry experts, but ordinary rowing enthusiasts.

Xia Nan from a local rowing club told the changes that rowing brings to

children's growth, parent-child relations and family life, with her two

children in the way of parent-child dialogue.

Liu Yue, director of the international department with Northeast Yucai School,

a local high school, highlighted the importance of rowing in promoting the

healthy growth and all-round development of teenagers.

Zhao Zhonghao, captain of the rowing team of Liaoning Communication University,

talked about the bitterness and sweetness in the training with his classmates,

which is a rare experience in his college life.

Rowing, known as the "flower of industrial civilization", is highly consistent

with the cultural accumulation of Shenyang.

According to Sui Qingyang, director of the youth committee of the Chinese

Rowing Association and general manager of the Shenyang International Rowing

Center, the first Shenyang International Open Regatta was held in 2018, making

rowing popular in Shenyang, and the second edition in 2019 attracted rowing

teams from France, Japan, New Zealand, and Thailand among others, making the

event an international one.

In 2020, the 3rd edition launched the first youth rowing invitational

competition, laying a foundation for the development of youth rowing in

Shenyang.

In 2021, through the "wisdom plus" curriculum system, more than 40,000 primary

and secondary school students in Hunnan District of Shenyang got involved in

the rowing sport.

In 2022, The China (Shenyang) Rowing Development Index was launched in

Shenyang, exporting the experience of Shenyang in rowing development to the

world.

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SOURCE:Xinhua Silk Road

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