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China, which promises success for next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics, kicked off the national championship this week.
China allows spectators to enter the stadium significantly, although they must be quarantined in a separate facility for two weeks before going to the stadium.
Correspondent Kang Seong-woong reports from Beijing.
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The National Sports Festival was held in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China.
Athletes from each region enter the field with cheers.
Not everyone was wearing a mask.
Event participants in the audience also sat close together without wearing masks.
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The general audience was filled with people wearing red masks.
46,200 people, or 77%, entered the opening ceremony stadium, which had a capacity of 60,000 people.
It is different from the Tokyo Olympics, which were held without spectators.
The number of athletes participating in the National Sports Festival in China is about 12,000, which is more than the number of athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympics.
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However, China has announced that the event will be held ‘no infection’, which is a rehearsal for next year’s Winter Olympics.
To this end, players and spectators were banned from entering the stadium unless they were vaccinated.
In particular, the spectators were quarantined at designated accommodation for two weeks before the opening ceremony and were not allowed to move.
During the quarantine period, nucleic acid testing is mandatory once every 3 days.
It is a method of filling the seats by mobilizing spectators with strict pre-control.
The host city of Xi’an allowed only those who submitted a negative nucleic acid test to go.
China’s national championship is an opportunity to see what the Beijing Winter Olympics will look like, with less than five months left.
This is Sungwoong Kang from YTN in Beijing.
YTN Kang Sung-woong (swkang@ytn.co.kr)
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