Kim Boi district fosters mass sport movements

6/20/2017 - 6:47:23 AM

(Hoa Binh Online) – Sport movements in Kim Boi district, the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh are spreading widely with more than 3,500 athletes competing in district-level sport tournaments and tens of thousands people doing exercise regularly.

Strolling along National Highway12B which runs through Kim Boi district at dusk, one could count dozens of football and volleyball grounds with people of all ages playing sports. While most middle-aged and young people as well as women engage in volleyball, teenagers and children are attracted to football.

Kim Boi district holds a volleyball tournament for farmers and women every year with the participation of all communes and towns. Photo: A volleyball competition between Nat Son and Hop Kim communes.

Over the past years, Kim Boi district has seriously carried out the State’s policies on sport-physical exercise development, including allocating budget to the work, giving land, encouraging public involvement in sport development in especially disadvantaged areas, and maintaining and developing traditional sports. Currently, one commune owns a culture-sport centre while two others are building such facilities and more than 90 percent of communes and townships allocate land for sport activities.

Competent agencies have seriously inspected and assessed the development of mass sport movements and competitions. They have organised district-level sport competitions, and encouraged sectors, trade unions, communes and towns to organise friendly sport tournaments to create a driving force for sport movements.

Last year, Kim Boi held 7 district-level sport competitions and sent athletes to 6 provincial-level competitions, including the table tennis-badminton-tennis competition for officials, the badminton-table tennis-tennis tournament of the cultural-sport-tourism sector, a crossbow-tug-of-war-stick pushing contest, a swimming competition, a track and field tournament, and the Hoa Binh Newspaper Cup marathon race.

In line with the policy to promote international cooperation, in May 2015, the district People’s Committee signed an agreement with the Vietnam representative office of the ChildFund Australia on organising training courses in rugby playing for youths aged 12- 24 in six communes, which also equipped them with living and leadership skills. So far, Kim Boi has successfully held six rugby competitions named Pass It Back-Sport for Development. The district has also facilitated physical training at schools. More than 90 percent of local schools have well performed exercise physical curricula while over 60 percent offer regular extra-curricular sport activities and more than 90 percent of students meet criteria on physical training.

Sports movements in armed forces have also been maintained.

In 2015, Kim Boi was honoured with a flag presented by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism in recognition of its vanguard role in maintaining sustainable mass sports movements, preserving traditional sports such as crossbow shooting, tug-of-war, stick pushing and "con” throwing. What is more important is the district has been able to sustain the movement of physical training following the example of Uncle Ho.

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