Peking University, Apr. 25, 2012: The 19th PKU Sports Cultural Festival & Sports Meeting was held successfully in the campus on April 20-21.

Started in 1994, it has become a PKU annual event and every year it attracts over a couple of thousands of faculty, students and staff to participate and compete in the sports field. Bearing the slogans like “doing exercises for an hour every day, working healthy for 50 years”, this annual event aims to promote every individual in the campus to keep healthy through sports, which is also an important application of the PKU concept of “Sunshine Sports”.

“PKU made great progress in Physical Education and related areas in 2011. In the coming month, PKU will organize the 50th track and field sports of colleges and universities in Beijing, so it is a rehearsal before the performance. ‘Life lies in motion’, I hope all our students, faculty and staff will strengthen physical exercises”, President Zhou Qifeng said at the opening ceremony.

Zhu Shanlu, Chairman of PKU Council, announced the opening of the 19th PKU Sports Cultural Festival & Sports Meeting.

On the opening ceremony, PKU staff and students performed different types of beautiful Chinese traditional shows, waist drum, Tai Chi Fan, folk dance and lion dance.

The distinguished guests from the Ministry of Education, All China Federation of Trade Unions, Federation of University Sports of Beijing, Beijing City Federation of Trade Unions, Beijing City Education Union and Tsinghua University presented at the ceremony.

There are over 50 colleges, departments, schools and other organizations involved in this event. The Sports Meeting not only covers the traditional track and field events, but also develops quite a lot new fun games.

Written by: Zhang Jiang

Source: PKU News (Chinese)