Recently the Hunan Provincial Development and Reform Commission and the Hunan Provincial Sports Bureau announced a plan on building fitness facilities with central budget funds to shore up weak links and promote national fitness. Eleven new projects will be built in Hunan, with a total investment of 83.1 million yuan. Six sports parks will be constructed, with an estimated investment of 56 million yuan.

China will build or expand roughly 1,000 sports parks nationwide by 2025, said a guideline released in late October 2021 by seven state organs, including the National Development and Reform Commission and the General Administration of Sports. A sports park system with wide coverage, diverse types, distinctive features, and strong inclusiveness will be formed gradually. It is planned to build 54 sports parks in Hunan.

This year six sports parks will start construction and be put into use, including Liuye Lake Sports Park in Changde City; Guozhan (International Exhibition) Center Sports Park and E’yang Mountain Sports Park in Changsha; Dongwu Mountain Ecological Sports Park in Ningxiang County-level City; Wulianguan Sports Park in Chenzhou City; and, Meijia Mountain Sports Park in Zhangjiajie City.

According to Nie Renxiao, deputy director of the Social Division of the Hunan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, sports parks are divided into three types of small, medium and large based on factors such as population size and economic level. The central budget funds are mainly used to support the construction of large-scale sports parks each with an area of over 100,000 square meters. "These sports parks are mainly located in the urban areas of cities and prefecture, where the population is relatively concentrated. This will enable more people to access to the parks, do physical exercise nearby, and enrich people’s leisure life."

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Xiao Juan

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn