Date: May 8, 2023

Source: JNU's Zhuhai Campus

Author: LIU Xiyun

Translator: LI Yingqi Li, GAN Yihang

To promote the metal and physical health of JNU students and staff members, the opening ceremony of the third Sports Meeting and Orienteering Competition was held on JNU's Zhuhai Campus April 27 in advance of International Labor Day on May 1. More than 300 people, including representatives of JNU officials, staff members and students, attended.

(The opening ceremony)

Lin Xiaolin, secretary of the JNU's Party Committee and chairman of the university's Labor Union, encouraged all students to form good exercise habits to develop a health body and positive mentality and help JNU become a first-class university in the world. On video, Su Bingtian, a professor in JNU’s School of Physical Education who was the first Asian-born sprinter to break the 10-second barrier, expressed his congratulations and said he wished the sports meeting complete success.

In addition to a performance by the Dragon Dance Team from the School of Physical Education, the opening ceremony featured Chinese dancing, yoga, aerobatics and hip-hop dancing by students from public physical education classes and dance clubs, displaying the rhythm of youth and the teaching results of physical education at JNU. Later, the sports meeting officially began when campus and school leaders went onstage to push over the starting lever.

After the opening ceremony, orienteering and sports games were held simultaneously. The Zhuhai sports meeting is a brand cultural activity and lasted into May. With sports knowledge lectures and competitions, including billiards, table tennis, dodge ball, basketball, volleyball and bridge, the sports meeting presents a youthful, passionate sports feast for both teachers and students.