Xinhua News Agency, Xining, February 11th: the new appearance of the native land in the peasant basketball game
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Yafang
In the early spring plateau, the sun shines brightly, but the cold wind is still biting. On the sixth day of the lunar new year, a peasant basketball match was being held on the exercise Plaza in the village in Taizi village, a mutual aid Turkish autonomous county, Haidong city, Qinghai province.
“One club come on” and “four clubs come on”…… On the court, the two teams wearing yellow and black uniforms are fighting fiercely. On the side of the field, the villagers gathered in a circle to watch with great interest, cheering, applause and laughter.
Wu Pingshi successfully grabbed a rebound under the opponent’s heavy defense and won the cheers of the whole audience. Shortly after the first half of the game, Wu Pingshi had some physical strength, and fine sweat dropped from his dark face. Wu Pingshi, 50 years old, is the oldest player on the court. Although his physical strength is not as good as that of young people, he insisted on playing the whole game and did not give up any chance to fight and shoot.
& uarr; On February 10, Dai Guili, a villager from the second village who stepped down, broke through the layup in the competition. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Hongxiang shot
“I scored two goals and was very satisfied. Playing basketball with young people made me feel young.” During the leisure season, Wu Pingshi’s favorite sport was playing basketball. Every year he took part in basketball matches between the countryside and the county, but it was the first time to play games in his village.
Wu Pingshi said that in the past, most of the villagers in the second village who had stepped down lived on the mountain. The road into the village was rugged and difficult to travel, and the living conditions were poor, and there was no fitness venue. The villagers wanted to play basketball, so they had to go to the neighboring village.
The Party branch secretary of the second village, Dai Yun, introduced that in the past two years, through the government’s dilapidated house reconstruction project and the plateau beautiful rural construction project, all 538 households in the second village were moved to the foot of the mountain. The new village was connected with tap water and hardened roads, and every family lived in a new house. At the end of last year, it was completed and put into use exercise Plaza. Basketball court, table tennis table, chessboard, fitness equipment and other facilities were all available, and villagers had a good place for leisure and fitness.
39-year-old Liu Yongyu and his team members practiced in the free basketball stand to prepare for the next game. He has been working abroad all the year round and has not returned to his hometown for the Spring Festival for two years. This year, the changes in the village have made him praise again and again.
“Before the new year, everyone got together to drink and play mahjong when they had nothing to do. The more they drank, the more annoying they felt, and the more worried they were. I didn’t expect everyone to exercise together this year, talking and laughing, and I really had a ‘healthy year ‘.” Liu Yongyu said that such a basketball game can not only exercise body and mind, but also make the relationship between villagers closer and more harmonious.
In the square, in addition to the ongoing competition, young people play basketball, children play table tennis, women play shuttlecock in a circle, the elderly play chess, or move their legs and feet on the fitness equipment to bask in the sun, everyone’s face is full of vitality and happiness.
Daiyun said that in the past two years, the village has shifted from planting only traditional crops such as wheat, rape and potatoes to planting plastic greenhouse vegetable and Chinese herbal medicines. The income has increased, and the villagers have confidence and more energy, many workers chose to return home, and the village was “young.
The small square of the second village after stepping down shows the new look of the happy life of the villagers. During the Spring Festival, the second village of stepping down held the first three-day peasant sports meeting. Basketball, table tennis, tug-of-war, shuttlecock kicking and other sports activities made villagers spend a different spring festival in sports.