Chief Executive Li Jiachao visited the Sports Academy to communicate with athletes and listen to everyone's opinions on sports development.
Li Jiachao said that the government attaches great importance to sports development. In addition to financial support for elite athletes, it also fully promotes and supports the training of young athletes and disabled athletes.
He said that the opinions he heard will help the consultation work of the "Policy Address", and called on the society to support young people in pursuing and realizing their dreams, so that Hong Kong athletes can shine in the international sports arena.
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Li Jiachao, accompanied by the Director of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, Yang Runxiong, and the Chairman of the Sports Institute, Lin Taihui, communicated with the athletes, including Wu Yonglin, who won the bronze medal in the women's youth doubles at the 2019 Asian Youth Table Tennis Championships.
Wu entered HKUST this year with a score of 45 out of 45 in the International Baccalaureate Diploma. Li Jiachao said that the government is funding the "Hong Kong Athlete Fund" to encourage more athletes to devote themselves to full-time training. For athletes to continue their studies, the Sports Institute also signed a memorandum of cooperation with 12 local tertiary institutions and cooperated with 30 local secondary schools to provide full-time athletes with more flexible learning arrangements.
Said to attach importance to sports development to support training of young athletes
He said that as an elite sports training institution, the improvement of supporting facilities is extremely important to the development of sports. In order to further enhance the competitiveness of athletes, the government has allocated funds to build a new facility building for the Sports Institute, which is expected to be completed in mid-2024, before the Paris Olympics. , will provide two new training venues, as well as physical fitness training, sports research and sports medicine facilities.
Li Jiachao also communicated with badminton player Wu Zhirou, martial arts player Yang Ziying, karate Deng Yuxuan, tennis player Huang Zelin, and played boccia with Paralympic medalists Liang Yurong and Liu Huiyin.
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