Kick-Off in Kaifeng: City’s Top Officials Cheer On Staff in Thrilling ‘Trade Union Cup’ Football Match

Kaifeng City “Trade Union Cup” 2024 Staff Football Match Opens

Source: Kaifeng Daily Author: All-media reporter Liu Yanchao Ma Yan Release time: 2024-11-06 07:18:24

All media reporters Liu Yanchao and Ma Yan reported that on November 5, the Kaifeng City “Trade Union Cup” 2024 employee football match opened at the Municipal People’s Stadium. Municipal Party Committee Secretary Gao Jianjun attended and announced the opening of the football match.

Photo by all-media reporter Liu Ruiheng

Lu Zhijun, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, Zhang Songwen, Member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee, Qian Zhongbao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee, Deputy Director of the Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee and Chairman of the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions, Vice Mayor Li Fusheng, CPPCC National Committee Vice Chairman Zhang Zhenghao and others attended the opening ceremony. Niu Yanbin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Executive Vice Chairman of the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions, presided over the event.

In the majestic national anthem, the opening ceremony of Kaifeng City’s “Trade Union Cup” 2024 Staff Football Match kicked off.

Qian Zhongbao delivered a speech. He said that in recent years, Kaifeng has actively promoted the “One Movement, One Quietness, One Traditional Chinese Medicine” strategy, and has been selected as a key city to promote the construction of national social football field facilities, a city where the national “Starry Stars” training camp and new football schools have settled, and a national youth campus football reform. Experimental areas and other areas, the football revitalization strategy has achieved remarkable results, and the enthusiasm of the whole people to participate in football is high. It is hoped that all participating teams will go all out, compete with style and level, and effectively achieve the purpose of “learning from each other, uniting and cooperating, striving for progress, and improving together”. I hope that the competition organizing committee and staff will adhere to high standards and strict requirements, Make the organization work detailed and practical to ensure the complete success of the event.

After the opening ceremony, the leaders who attended the opening ceremony kicked off the first game together.

It is understood that our city has drawn a blueprint, established mechanisms and laid the foundation around the goal of building a healthy and energetic football city, an international football cultural city, and a national “football + N” integrated development pilot city, step by step, and has developed a path with Kaifeng characteristics. road to development. A total of 49 teams and more than 600 athletes participated in this football match, including 40 men’s football teams and 9 women’s football teams. The men’s football match uses an 8-a-side system and the women’s football match uses a 5-a-side system. This event is a concrete action taken by our city to deeply implement the strategy of “One Movement, One Quietness, One Traditional Chinese Medicine”. It is an important measure to better satisfy the city’s employees’ yearning for a better life and promote the all-round development of employees.