From November 20th to 26th, the 2023 National Coastal Rowing Championship will be held at the East Beach of Songlanshan Seaside (Zhejiang Sailing Training Base) in Xiangshan County, Ningbo City. Nearly 200 outstanding athletes and coaches from 14 provinces in China will stage the land and sea version of "Speed and Passion" on the most beautiful coastline of Xiangshan at 30 degrees north latitude.

Event information

The competition was directed by Zhejiang Sports Bureau, sponsored by Water Sports Management Center of State Sports General Administration, China Rowing Association, Ningbo Sports Bureau and Xiangshan County People’s Government, undertaken by Zhejiang Water Sports Management Center and Xiangshan County Culture, Radio, Film and Television Tourism and Sports Bureau, co-organized by Damuwan Development and Construction Management Center of Xiangshan County and Xiangshan County Water Sports Association, and implemented by Hangzhou Ruizhou Sports Equipment Co., Ltd.

Event introduction

Coastal rowing is a relatively new sport in the world. The events are divided into beach sprint, endurance race and long-distance journey race. At present, the International Olympic Committee has announced that the beach sprint event in coastal rowing will be included in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games together with the traditional rowing event.

competition event

The category of this national coastal rowing championship is beach sprint. The competition will adopt two channels and set up three events, namely men’s single sculls (CM1x), women’s single sculls (CW1x) and mixed double sculls (CMix2x).

Beach sprint is a very popular racing mode in coastal rowing competitions, which is adopted in many coastal rowing competitions. The race starts from the beach. Athletes need to quickly run to the rowing boat docked at the beach and jump into the boat. After the rowing boat bypasses a specific buoy, it returns to the beach, jumps out of the boat and finally crosses the finish line on the beach. The event consists of qualifying, rematch, quarter-finals, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals. It is fiercely contested in the form of pairwise PK, which is competitive, antagonistic, interesting and ornamental.

competition range

The venue of this event is Ningbo Songlanshan Tourism Resort, which has a blend of mountains and seas and many headlands. The coastline of 22.5 kilometers from north to south has the largest land beach group in East China. Especially, the nearshore of the East Beach on the seashore is a crescent-shaped beach with a length of 900 meters, a width of 200 meters and an area of about 150,000 square meters. The average depth of the bay is 14 meters, and the water is clear and calm with a muddy bottom. It is perfectly adapted to all kinds of marine sports, and is equipped with shower rooms, dressing rooms and other infrastructure. It is an ideal coastal rowing venue, and Zhejiang sailing training base is also located here.

In order to practice the concept of "running a good meeting, upgrading a city and activating a sea". Xiangshan has started the post-Asian Games era. After the sailing and beach volleyball competitions of the Asian Games, high-standard and high-level marine sports events such as "Youth and the Sea", national training course for coaches of national sailing model teams, sailing competition of the 2nd National Games of Ningbo (Youth Department) and Zhejiang Xiangshan Cup and sailing model open were held successively.

Taking the Asian Games as an opportunity and relying on the unique marine conditions, Xiangshan will actively promote the development of marine sports industry, strengthen the "wonderful marine plate" of Ningbo’s modern coastal metropolis, accelerate the construction of the Yangtze River Delta marine sports demonstration zone and marine sports industry model zone, and show the city image of "seeing Xiangshan through marine sports".

　　　　　　 CCTV News:On the 22nd, the eighth round of Astana peace talks on Syria ended in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. In this round of peace talks, the date of the Syrian National Dialogue Conference, which has attracted much attention from the outside world, was finally finalized, and new ways were added to the political settlement of the Syrian issue.

Astana peace talks (data map)

　　　　　　 This round of peace talks lasted for two days, including representatives from the UN Special Envoy for Syria, De Mistura, Russia, Turkey, Iran, the Syrian government and the opposition. At the plenary session, Kazakh Foreign Minister Abdrakhmanov read out a joint statement issued by Russia, Turkey and Iran, the guarantor countries of the Syrian ceasefire mechanism, saying that the parties to the Syrian conflict will hold a Syrian national dialogue meeting in the southern Russian city of Sochi from January 29 to 30, 2018.

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria De Mistura(data map)

　　　　　　 In addition, representatives of the United Nations, the International Red Cross and the World Health Organization will attend the meeting as observers. In order to coordinate the final list of participants, the three ceasefire guarantor countries will hold a preparatory meeting for the National Dialogue Conference from January 19 to 20.

　　　　　　 Undeniably, it is an important step to hold the Syrian National Dialogue Conference, which has also given the international community new hope. However, it is still difficult to answer these questions, such as whether the Conference can achieve the expected results, where the conflict that lasted for more than six years will go, and how far it is from achieving the ultimate goal of peace.

Damascus, Syria, was in ruins under the war.(data map)

　　　　　　 [Background] Astana Peace Talks

　　　　　　 Since January 23 this year, as one of the main ways to solve the Syrian crisis politically, Astana peace talks have been held for seven rounds, and many important consensuses have been reached on the settlement of internal conflicts in Syria, including urging all parties in Syria to cease fire and establishing a "conflict relegation zone". The seventh round of Astana peace talks on Syria at the end of October affirmed the previous decision to establish a conflict relegation zone in Syria, and discussed the formation of a Syrian national dialogue conference.

　　　　　　 Different from the Geneva peace talks led by the United Nations, the Astana peace talks were convened by Russia, Turkey and Iran, with the goal of achieving a permanent ceasefire between the Syrian government and anti-government forces and creating conditions for political negotiations. Although they are all concerned about the Syrian issue, the Astana peace talks and the Geneva peace talks have their own emphases. The focus of the Astana peace talks is to urge and maintain the Syrian parties to achieve a ceasefire, while the Geneva peace talks focus on Syrian political negotiations.

　　　　　　 The analysis pointed out that several rounds of Astana peace talks and their achievements have obviously enhanced the influence of Russia, Turkey and Iraq in the Syrian crisis, and also laid the foundation for the Syrian peace talks held in Geneva.