Source: Hebei News Network
The 1st Beidaihe New District of China Sino-ocean Sailing Festival kicked off at the Sino-ocean Weilan Hai’an in Beidaihe New District, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province on August 25, 2020. As one of the activities of the “2020 Qinhuangdao Sailing Season”, the sailing festival adheres to the principle of safety, openness and innovation, integrates sports, culture, and tourism, and provides a platform for communication and competition for sailing athletes and enthusiast, to promote the popularization and development of water sports for the people.
The opening ceremony of the sailing festival. Photo by Sun Yeda from Hebei Daily
As the only prefecture-level city in China that has co-hosted the Olympics and Asian Games, Qinhuangdao City has become the best candidate for marine sports due to its unique high-quality sea conditions, and is hailed as one of the “seven outstanding maritime venues in the world.” Beidaihe New District is not only a well-known summer resort at home and abroad, but also a paradise for sailing and windsurfing enthusiasts, with moderate water temperature, stable and continuous wind. In recent years, sailing has developed vigorously here, and sailing events have been continuously upgraded, many influential events with high level and high class have been held, including the National Teenagers Sailing Championships, the National Youth Sailing Championships, the National Youth Club Sailing League, the Qinhuangdao Sailing Tournament, and the Qinhuangdao International Sailing Competition.
Located in the leading strategic position of Beidaihe New District, Weilan Hai’an meets the needs of urban development. With high-quality sea conditions, rich experience in hosting events, good infrastructure construction, and broad industrial layout, it has attracted a large number of sailing professionals and enthusiasts with the sailing IP. The grand opening of the sailing festival marks another achievement that Sino-ocean Weilan Hai’an has made in building its own large-scale sailing brand events and activities.
The sailing festival will be held from August 23 to September 13. In addition to the Sino-ocean Cup · China Sailing Celebrity Race series, opening ceremonies of the CYA Beibei Holiday Shipyard, Navigation Base, and Navigation Library, and some wonderful public activities will be held, including live concert, film festival, music party, and art exhibition.
In recent years, Beidaihe New District has actively explored a new model for the sailing industry to promote urban transformation and development, focusing on building a new home port for the sailing industry in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regions, and actively cooperating with governments, institutions, and enterprises in developed regions of the sailing industry across the country and the world, to promote the integrated development of sailing, tourism, business, manufacturing and other forms of business, and build a sailing development industry system with diversified investment subjects. In the future, Beidaihe New District will continue to spare no effort to promote sailing, take the development of sailing as an opportunity to cultivate diversified water sports and leisure tourism, and create a new business card for the city.
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