Shenzhen Opens The Door Of The World

Liu Xiang

Medium 5 continents torch bearers lit the main torch.

At 21:56 yesterday, Chinese President Hu Jintao announced at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center Stadium: the twenty-sixth World University Summer Games will be held.

This Universiade is next to the Beijing Olympic Games.

The opening ceremony of the Universiade in Shenzhen without fireworks, not asking big names, advocating sports and ritual return has changed the grand impression, superb performance and imposing impression of the grand opening ceremony of our past major events, bringing people a completely new experience and fresh feeling with the concept of "simplicity and simplicity".

Last night's opening ceremony was divided into four chapters: the world meets here, the ribbon cuts in the future, the blending of civilizations and the relay of dreams here.

The games included 24 competitions, including 22 Olympic events, and two non Olympic events of aerobics and aerobics for the first time on the stage of the Universiade.

Compared with last year, there were 9 major items, sailing, shooting, golf and so on. They won a record of major events in competitions, gold medals and scale.

In the next 12 days, nearly 8000 college athletes from 152 countries and regions will launch an attack on 306 gold medals and gather and exchange in the youngest cities of China to share the joy brought by sports.

The Chinese university student sports delegation sent 505 athletes, led by Olympic champions such as Chen Ruolin, He Chong and Pang Wei. They will strive for three in the gold medal list in the 24 major and 283 minor competitions.

At the Belgrade Universiade two years ago, the Chinese team won second gold medals in 22 gold, 21 silver and 15 bronze.

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Tsinghua University high jump champion

China's flag bearer

Tsinghua University high jumper Wang Yu became the standard bearer of the Chinese delegation at the opening ceremony of the Universiade in Shenzhen.

Wang Yu, who was born in Zhuhai, Guangdong, was born in August 18, 1991. His personal best result is 2 meters 28. He has won the national high school student's men's high jump champion and studied at Tsinghua University John Ma's special class.

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Opening five "different"

The opening ceremony held the idea of returning to sports and returning to the ceremony, and told the world a different way in a completely new way.

The opening ceremony of the Universiade has five "different".

The 1 ceremony is "different".

From "Arts Festival" to "sports feast"

In the past opening ceremony, performance is the most important content. Great scenes, superb performances and dazzling stars all impress the audience. The opening ceremony of the Universiade in Shenzhen is different. The performance is entirely the supporting role, and the opening ceremony itself and the athletes are in the prominent position.

To return to sports and return ceremony is to let the opening ceremony of the Games return to its original intention, with performance to assist all aspects of the ceremony and enrich the ceremony.

Some programs embodying sports aesthetics and youthful vigor run through ceremonies, such as dance, acrobatics, bicycle stunts, and so on, adding color to sports ceremonies.

2 the protagonist is "different".

From professional actors to university students

The Universiade is a grand gathering of world university students. The opening ceremony also highlights the leading role of university students.

90% of the performers are college students, and the opening ceremonies are all "amateur", most of them are Chinese university students, and a dance team from Duke University. The theme song is sung by university students from Serbia, China and Russia.

3 the site is "different"

"World gate" to create all-round performance space

The opening ceremony has one of the most important architectural elements, "the gate of the world". The unique design of this open door has made a revolutionary breakthrough in the opening stage.

The Shenzhen Bay Sports Center is very styled, with three sides surrounded by stands, east open to overlook the sea, and the open side is the "world gate" with a span of 110 meters. The audience can sit in the hall and enjoy the Shenzhen Bay and the city night view through the "world gate" to overlook Hongkong.

In addition, the "world gate" is a huge LED curtain wall. During the opening ceremony, various images of abacus, Shu Shan, fireworks, meteor shower and so on were produced. There were 365 spaces designed on the "gate of the world", with actors performing inside, giving performances richer.

4 guide clothing "different"

152 pieces of clothing are different.

In the past opening ceremony, the guide's clothing that led the athletes to enter was a style, and the guide clothing of the opening ceremony of the Universiade in Shenzhen changed this "Convention".

At the opening ceremony, 152 guides appeared in costumes with a strong sense of design.

The styles and styles of these costumes are different. A teacher from Shenzhen University has led 20 students to design the creative and creative abilities of contemporary college students through these unique elements.

5 the torch tower is "different".

Will forever become a new landmark.

The torch tower stands outside the gate of the world. In order to echo each other in the central stage of the medal design, it extends two "ribbons" from the "Medal" and connects the stage with the torch tower.

Unlike the previous demolition of some torch towers at the end of the games, the torch tower of the Shenzhen Universiade will continue to be preserved as a permanent landmark of the city.

"Number" said Universiade

24 the Shenzhen Universiade has 24 major items. The two non Olympic events of chess and aerobics are the first stage of the Universiade.

Compared with last year, there were 9 big items and 105 small items in sailing, shooting and golf.

152 a total of 152 delegations participated in the competition, including 7865 athletes and 4036 officers.

The total number of 306 gold medals totaled 306.

The maximum number of gold medals is 18 days, up to 45.

400 thousand in Shenzhen, more than 400 thousand vehicles were declared to be suspended, 92% of them were private cars, and the traffic volume of road vehicles was reduced by nearly 20%.

125, there are 26 thousand volunteers, 250 thousand city volunteers and nearly one million social volunteers, forming a large contingent of over 1 million 250 thousand people to volunteer for the Universiade.

44 million 360 thousand Shenzhen city has carried out building facade renovation and roof reconstruction of 44 million 360 thousand square meters, involving 15000 buildings on both sides of 300 roads.

The city has implemented 355 greening upgrading projects, and 51 districts in each district have been upgraded to special cultural blocks.