Ninh Thuan: Promoting the Campaign "All people exercise following the example of great Uncle Ho"

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Accompanying the 79-year glorious history of Vietnamese sports, Ninh Thuan sports have made remarkable progress. Especially after 5 years of implementing the Resolution of the 14th Ninh Thuan Provincial Party Congress, term 2020-2025, Ninh Thuan sports have achieved many important results and won many remarkable achievements. In particular, the provincial culture, sports and tourism sector has focused on promoting the Campaign "All people compete to practice sports following the example of great Uncle Ho"; proactively building and implementing a strategic project on developing high-performance sports in a spearhead direction, taking effective shortcuts to integrate with domestic sports. With the perspective of developing sustainable sports in the direction of socialization, the mass sports movement has created a widespread influence throughout the province, attracting more and more people to regularly participate in training, contributing to meeting the needs of people to enjoy spiritual life. Mass sports activities are vibrant and diverse; especially ethnic sports, folk games, modern sports are organized at traditional festivals, promoting the widespread development of the sports movement; coordinating with departments, branches, sectors, and localities to successfully organize many major sports tournaments on holidays, events, and anniversaries. Typically, such as: Organizing the 7th Provincial Sports Festival in 2022 on a large scale, creating an exciting atmosphere and great success. Successfully organizing the Ninh Thuan - Binh Thuan open sand car - motorbike racing tournament; Ninh Thuan - Binh Thuan bicycle racing tournament; Ninh Thuan provincial mass bicycle racing tournament. Annually organize the summer opening ceremony, Children's Olympic Day and launch the whole population to practice swimming to prevent drowning; International Yoga Day... Create a brand and spread Ninh Thuan sports to domestic and international friends.

Outstanding in mass sports activities is the rapid increase in the number, participants and forms of voluntary and self-conscious sports training; contributing to increasing the rate of people practicing sports regularly in 2021 to 30.3% and by 2025 to 37.5% of the population in the whole province; 100% of schools organize activities during breaks such as traditional martial arts movements, folk dances or group dances, many schools establish clubs to attract students with the same passion and interests to participate in activities, creating a healthy living environment, helping to improve health, improve labor productivity, work efficiency, create human resources to serve socio-economic development, contributing to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland.

High-performance sports have developed and achieved some outstanding results, training many athletes to reach national level, achieving high results at national and international competitions, gradually improving the position of Ninh Thuan sports in the country's general sports. In the period of 2020-2025 (up to March 2025), athletes of the province have won about 429 medals of all kinds, including: 73 gold medals, 118 silver medals and 238 bronze medals. Currently, the province has 7 provincial sports associations and federations (badminton, Muay-kickboxing, tennis, Taekwondo, Vovinam Viet Vo Dao, Yoga and golf association) with over 2,700 members. Sports associations are an important bridge in selecting and training high-performance athletes of the province.

Along with the investment of the State, the socialization of physical training and sports has also been promoted and developed in our province. Through the socialization of physical training and sports, many businesses and individuals have been mobilized to invest in building new sports playgrounds with high investment levels such as: tennis courts, swimming pools, artificial turf football fields, gyms, fitness centers... with investment costs ranging from hundreds of millions to billions of VND. The mass physical training and sports facilities system continues to receive investment attention, consolidation and development in the whole province, along with the promotion of socialization in physical training and sports activities, contributing to supplementing and upgrading physical training and sports infrastructure. Currently, the provincial level has 1 center, the district level has 3 centers and the commune level has over 770 playgrounds and facilities at the grassroots level. In the province, over 360 sports clubs, over 130 volleyball courts, 156 football fields, 55 tennis courts and 85 basic sports fields have been established and developed... Basic facilities meet the training, entertainment and sports competition activities of the people. Many clubs have become venues for organizing annual local mass sports tournaments.

Promoting the achieved results, in the coming time, the province will continue to implement the Campaign "All people practice physical training following the example of great Uncle Ho" for the period of 2025-2030, creating a strong development of physical training and sports in the province until 2030. Expand and improve the effectiveness of the physical training and sports movement for everyone. Expand, diversify and improve the effectiveness, create a strong and comprehensive change in mass physical training and sports activities, recreational sports, and school physical education to contribute to improving the physical condition and stature of Vietnamese people, educating people to develop comprehensively, meeting the spiritual development needs of students. Mobilize the strength of the whole society to care for physical education for the people, so that all people can enjoy and participate in cultural and sports activities to improve health, enhance stature and physical condition, contribute to improving the quality of human resources for the cause of industrialization and modernization, meeting the requirements of socio-economic development of the province.

Source: https://bvhttdl.gov.vn/ninh-thuan-day-manh-cuoc-van-dong-toan-dan-ren-luyen-than-the-theo-guong-bac-ho-vi-dai-2025032709213493.htm