Original title: 2023 (First) China Employees’ Competitive Egg-Breaking Championship comes to Hong Kong
Workers Daily-China Industry Network reporter Liu Bing
On October 14, the Hengyuanxiang 2023 (First) China Employee Competitive Egg-Breaking Championship Hong Kong Station and the First Hong Kong Egg-Breaking Championship, hosted by the China Enterprise Sports Association, were grandly held at the Guangdong Hotel in Hong Kong. Nearly 200 egg-cracking enthusiasts from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Sichuan and other places gathered on the banks of the Hong Kong River to meet friends with cards, discuss and communicate, and blew the whistle on the popularity and development of the egg-cracking sport in Hong Kong. Rally number.
As an international financial, shipping and trade center, Hong Kong has an eclectic and diverse culture where China and the West meet, and sports play an important role in Hong Kong’s social culture. Especially after returning to the motherland, Hong Kong’s sports industry has developed vigorously. The government’s support, good facilities, professional management, and Hong Kong people’s enthusiasm for sports have made Hong Kong’s sports not only highly popular among the people, but also among the public. It has won many successes in international competitions such as the Olympic Games and Asian Games.
Mind sports are one of Hong Kong’s strengths. At the just-concluded Hangzhou Asian Games, the Hong Kong bridge team won the gold medal and dominated Asia. The Hong Kong sports community established the Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong Egg Cracking) Sports Association in May this year, and cooperated with the China Enterprise Sports Association to host the first competitive egg-cracking national competition.
This event is co-organized by the China Enterprise Sports Association Egg-cracking Professional Committee, the Intellectual Sports Federation of Hong Kong, China, the Hong Kong Pai-Pan (Egg-cracking) Sports Federation, the China Sports Workers Federation (Hong Kong) and other units. Hengyuanxiang Group, a time-honored Chinese brand that has long supported China’s sports industry, provided title sponsorship for the event.
Egg-beating combines the essence of various folk poker games. It has unique cultural characteristics and endless charm. It is a high-quality intellectual sports event. It is not only popular across the country, but also has been included in the performance items of this year’s fifth National Intellectual Games, achieving from The leap from private poker tables to professional arenas.
Dai Luqiang, full-time vice president of the China Enterprise Sports Association, said in an interview: The purpose of holding the China Employees Competitive Egg-cracking Championship is to promote the popularization and development of the egg-cracking sport through brand events, and to play the important role of intellectual sports in national fitness and healthy China strategies. This competition is the first national egg-cracking competition held in Hong Kong, which is of great significance. It will build a new platform for non-governmental sports exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong. In the future, we will continue to link up with professional associations in Hong Kong to hold more egg-cracking events, and at the same time expand the scope of the competition to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, so that egg-cracking, a high-quality intellectual sport, can bring happiness and harmony to the people of the Greater Bay Area. .
Various non-governmental special associations are powerful promoters of the development of sports in Hong Kong. As the organizer of this competition, the Hong Kong Egg-Scrapping Sports Association not only provided strong support for the event, but also made plans for the development of the egg-cracking sport in Hong Kong. Zhao Shuang, the founding president of the association, said in his speech: “The Hong Kong Egg-Scrapping Sports Association of China is committed to developing and promoting the egg-cracking sport in Hong Kong, establishing a complete competition system and management system, organizing local egg-cracking sports competitions, and cooperating with the State Sports General Administration and The China Enterprise Sports Association’s intellectual sports development plan uses professional attitudes and capabilities to create Hong Kong intellectual sports brand events and serve the development of China’s healthy society.
Guo Jianquan, secretary-general of the Federation, said in an interview: “As soon as this competition was announced, it attracted many employees of Chinese-funded institutions and enterprises in Hong Kong to respond actively, and the enthusiasm for participation was very high. Egg-breaking is an intellectual sport that contains rich Chinese cultural traditions. The project is very suitable to be carried forward in Hong Kong. The Federation has formulated a complete development plan, including the training of referees and coaches, which are being steadily advanced. In the future, domestic egg-breaking professionals will be invited to Hong Kong for teaching.
The popularity of the egg-cracking sport in Hong Kong has very positive significance for the exchanges between mainland China and Hong Kong in sports and culture: its social attributes will provide a unique new platform for people-to-people exchanges between the two places; its cultural attributes will be effective It will promote cultural integration between the two places; its entertainment attributes will add fun to Hong Kong people’s spare time; its competitive attributes will bring new opportunities for the development of intellectual sports in Hong Kong, and will contribute to the realization of the SAR government’s goal of “promoting the popularization of sports, At the same time, as the “Chinese and foreign cultural and artistic exchange center” clearly positioned in the 14th Five-Year Plan, Hong Kong is also an excellent window for the egg-cracking movement to move from China to the world.
Li Meiyao, who works in Hong Kong, participated in an official egg-cracking competition for the first time. “I used to play with my friends. The atmosphere of the competition here is very strong, and people unconsciously have to concentrate on it.” She and her partner won the last round. , she said such results were hard-won. “You need to be very calm during the game, judge the situation, and be bold when playing cards.”
According to the regulations, the top eight players will qualify for the national finals of the championship. At the same time, the top 30% of contestants will receive egg-cracking master points and master-level qualifications certified by the China Enterprise Sports Association’s egg-cracking committee and announced on the “Yidong Sports” App.
After six rounds of fierce competition, Qin Bao/Liu Baolei, the representative team of the Hong Kong Egg-Pulling Association, won the championship; Zhu Yuanqing/Wang Xinwei of the Shenzhen Club of the Central Egg-Pulling Club won the runner-up; Shi Haiquan/Chen Debin of the Hello Young Card-Pan Club won the third place. They will also win the Intermediate Master of Egg Cube respectively. , Intermediate Master of Clubs, and Junior Master of Spades qualifications.
This competition has specially added a ranking award for local players in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Egg-Breaking Federation’s team Qin Bao/Liu Baolei, Huang Hongfan/Zhao Hu, and the CSSC team Li Xi/Xiu Hongquan ranked among the top three local players and became the first A group of Hong Kong egg-cracking masters and the “seeds” of the egg-cracking movement took root in Hong Kong.
After this stop, the championship will move from Xiangjiang north to Shanghai River to compete in Tianjin on November 5. (Worker Daily Client, October 15)
2023-10-15 06:16:00
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