Source:Beidaihe New District Photo & Text: Liu Hongwei
On Sept.2, the 2018 National Sailing Championship ended successfully in Beidaihe New District, Qinhuangdao. After 8 days of hot competition, 10 championships were rewarded. Behind the transcripts, the passionate and energetic sailing events have been deeply engraved in the memory of more than 200 athletes from 23 provinces, cities, units and clubs across the country.
This is a new exploration of Qinhuangdao's all-season and all-sight tourism. It is a beautiful footnote for culture and sport benefiting people, and a major boost for industrial upgrading.
This is a grand gathering of veteran and rookies. It is a window for Qinhuangdao to show the image of being suitable for living, business and tourism, to attract more people to enter into Qinhuangdao, get to know Qinhuangdao and love Qinhuangdao.
It is one of the initial hopes for Qinhuangdao to participate and host the National Sailing Championships to enable the citizens to have a richer leisure cultural life, realize the desire of “approaching-sea” and cultivate a healthier and more up-to-date lifestyle. The sportsmanship and exquisite athletic skills of the athletes have also injected more vitality into the city.
In the field competition, the men's 470, Xu Jianyong/Wang Yang from Zhejiang/Guangdong team won the championship; in the women's 470, Shi Jinxiu/Xu Yani from Zhejiang team won the championship; in the men's laser, Lin Guikun from Fujian team won the championship; in women's Laser Radial, Yuan Rubei from Shanghai team won the championship; in Finn, Chen He from Shandong team won the championship.