Dongguan accelerates preparations for Basketball World Cup
2019-03-20 09:13     Source : Dongguan Today

The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 tournament will run from 31st August to 15th September 2019. Dongguan has been confirmed as one of the host cities, and will hold a total of 13 competitions including all Group H games. Dongguan has a strong basketball atmosphere so this top international event is most welcome. At present, preparations for the Dongguan Division are progressing steadily, and a series of publicity and warm-up activities combined with local sports events are coming soon. 

At the draw ceremony for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 on 16th March, Yang Xiaotang (Member of Dongguan's standing committee and Director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Dongguan Committee) said that Dongguan as host will make its' best efforts to prepare for the tournament, and present a high-quality cultural city. 

Organizing work proceeded in an orderly manner

As host of the Basketball World Cup, once the Dongguan Division Organizing Committee had been established in early 2018, various preparatory works were actively progressed together with the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Asian Qualifiers and the World Cup countdown. Simultaneously, the Dongguan Division will hold the Mini World Cup qualifiers in the city's junior high schools and senior high schools. The winning team will participate in the finals in Beijing in July.

At present, all departments of the Dongguan Division Organizing Committee have completed budgetary preparations and reached a preliminary cooperation agreement with the reception hotel. Preparation works will next concentrate on approval of the budget, while adjusting and supplementing the members list of the organizing committee. A meeting of all organizing committee members will be organized to re-assign department responsibilities.

Preparatory work to renovate the Dongguan Basketball Centre has been completed. Construction will start after the end of the CBA league this season. It is expected that all projects will be completed by the end of June. According to the organizing committee, all personnel and technical statisticians of the Dongguan Division will be specially trained. Test competitions will be held to conduct drills on the venues and equipment such as information technology.

The "Basketball City" is heating up

Next, publicity and promotion work of the Dongguan Division will be fully launched. Combined with the abundant sports activities available in Dongguan, promotion of the basketball World Cup will be closely entwined with real life.

"The significance of hosting the Basketball World Cup is to brighten Dongguan's image as the ‘National Basketball City’, to inspire the public to love basketball and sports, to continuously improve the people’s sense of gain and happiness, and to push the ‘city of sports’ to a higher level. It will bring a new experience of urban Dongguan life to the people. Yang added: "Through this event, we will strive to spread and display the image of Dongguan city, to enhance the city's cultural taste, and to create a good environment which will attract high-end elements to Dongguan, especially excellent talent resources. Let Dongguan's cultural image occupy an important place in the Greater Bay Area cities cluster."

Editor: 谭晶