From Beijing To Guangzhou; &Nbsp; &Nbsp; 20 Asian Games Witness China'S Rise

From "the whole nation to run the Asian Games" to "one province to run the Asian Games"

Many people are still fresh in memory of the 1990 Asian Games. The heroic heroic spirit of Asia, the lovely mascot panda pan pan, has passed 20 years ago. People still like to talk about the large scale group gymnastics "gathering in Beijing" of the Beijing Asian Games. The magnificent and neat group Gymnastics in the stadium is the biggest shock for the Asian Games opening ceremony in Beijing.

20 years later, in Guangzhou, the opening ceremony was moved from the sports ground to the urban open plaza on the Pearl River. "The Pearl River is the stage and the city is the background". The opening ceremony of the Asian Games is integrated with the surging Pearl River, the towering tall buildings and the City neon.

Such an idea is amazing.

The slogan "everyone cares about the Asian Games and everyone is contributing to the Asian Games" is heard throughout the country.

Once became the popular language at that time.

Hai Xia, a 12 year old female student in Hu Primary School of Jianhu County, Jiangsu, sent the parents' 1.6 yuan gift money to the Organizing Committee of the Asian Games, becoming the first donation received by the Asian Games.

However, 20 years later, when the Asian Games came to China again, today's China is quite different from what it was 20 years ago.

Zhang Jieming, director of the Guangzhou Municipal Finance Bureau, said that in 1989, China's GDP was 15677 billion yuan, while Guangzhou in 2009 was more than 900 billion yuan, which would exceed trillion yuan this year. In Guangdong Province, GDP reached 39081 billion yuan last year, which is two times and half of the total national economy twenty years ago.

The Asian Games in Guangzhou are at a higher starting point.

From 20 years ago, the whole nation was able to run the Asian Games, and today we can run the Asian Games by relying on the power of one province or even one city, which reflects the rapid development of our country's economic strength in the past 20 years.

The leap from "village" to "city"

20 years ago, the Beijing Asian Games created a new word for Chinese vocabulary.

The Asian Games in Guangzhou also created a new vocabulary: "Asian Games city", it will also enter the lives of ordinary people in Guangzhou.

Coming to the Guangzhou Asian Games City, which is full of poetry in the water village of South of the Five Ridges, this huge building, known as "the first city in Asian Games history", completely subverts the concept of "Asian Sports Village". It includes seven parts, namely, athletes village, technical official village, media village, main media center, logistics service area, gymnasium area and Asian Games Park.

2.7 square kilometers of the Asian Games City, everywhere beautiful green city embrace, "mountain, water, city" perfect convergence, modern urban ideal green living environment has been perfectly deductive, not enough to go out of town, food and clothing, eat and drink, Asian Games city everything.

Asian Games City, based on the Asian Games, more focus on the future, after the Asian Games, this will become an important urban functional area of Guangzhou, "Guangzhou new city" starting area, a new modern urban area is ready to come out.