On the morning of April 9th, Li Xiaodong, the Deputy Secretary of the County Party Committee and the County Magistrate, visited the key locations and routes of the 2025 Xiangshan Marathon in person to inspect the preparation work for the event.She emphasized the need to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping on0important directives on sports, adhere to the work requirements set by provincial and municipal authorities,further strengthen the commitment to highquality standards, optimize service support,and ensure that the event is conducted in a safe, orderly, exciting, and successful manner.
The 2025 Xiangshan Marathon has officially been certified as an A1 event by the Chinese Athletics Association and is set to start on the morning of April 13th.By then, 12,000 athletes from 13 countries and regions will gather in Xiangshan and run on the world's first wave-shaped track.
Li Xiaodong successively visited the starting point at the People's Square, the finish point of the healthy run at Juexi Knitting City, and the finish points of the marathon and half - marathon at the tourist center of Songlan Mountain Coastal Tourist Resort. Along the way, he inspected the environmental improvement and atmosphere creation of the roads around the route, listened in detail to the reports on the preparations such as track setting, safety guarantee, medical rescue, and shuttle services, and put forward rectification suggestions for the problems found on the spot.
Li Xiaodong pointed out that the Xiangshan Marathon is not only a large - scale and high - standard sports event, but also a major test of our county's urban governance level and an important window to showcase the urban image of Xiangshan.All localities and departments should raise their standing, strengthen their understanding, firmly establish a holistic view and bottom - line thinking, seize the last time window, further identify and fill in the gaps, refine the measures, repeatedly polish the details and optimize the processes. They should strive for perfection and spare no effort to do all the preparatory work for the event well, ensuring that the competition is foolproof and a complete success.
Li Xiaodong emphasized that the event services should be refined. Focusing on each stage before, during, and after the event, the work plans should be improved, work measures should be implemented, and training and guidance should be strengthened. All - around efforts should be made in hotel accommodation, transportation, medical support, climate response, volunteer services, etc., so as to continuously enhance the sense of experience, participation, and gain of the participating athletes.We must firmly hold the safety bottom - line, keep a close eye on key links and critical points, conduct a one - by - one investigation of risks and potential hazards, make meticulous arrangements for security measures, scientifically allocate medical rescue forces, strengthen drills to improve emergency response capabilities, and ensure the safety of all personnel, throughout the whole process, and across the entire area.We should do a good job in publicity and guidance, increase the publicity of the event, explore the hotspots and highlights of the competition, tell the stories of Xiangshan and the Xiangshan Marathon well, create a strong atmosphere for the competition, comprehensively showcase the unique charm of the modern coastal garden city, and further enhance the popularity, reputation and influence of Xiangshan.We should amplify the effects of the sports event, seize the opportunity of the activity, make full use of the "event +" concept, and further promote the integrated development of sports events and cultural and tourism activities. We should use the event to boost tourism and develop industries through sports, so that the "traffic" generated by the event can be transformed into the "retention" of cultural and tourism and the "increment" of development, thus empowering high - quality development.