Dragon boats to duel on Suzhou Creek
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THE annual dragon boat race on Suzhou Creek in Putuo District has become a landmark.
Last year, the district signed a contract with China Dragon Boat Association, gaining the right to organize China Dragon Boat Open (Shanghai-Putuo stop) on the Suzhou Creek from 2016 to 2018. This year, the 14th dragon boat race will be from May 27 to 28 on Suzhou Creek along Mengqing Park.
The finals will be on the afternoon of May 28. Cultural and art events will be the same day at the Mengqing Park as part of the festival.
More than 800 paddlers from 52 teams will compete.
Twelve teams from Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces were selected on the website of China Dragon Boat Association. The other 40 teams comprise expats, corporate workers, government officials and student and celebrity teams.
The expats are from Russia, Belarus, Thailand, Singapore, Bulgaria and Norway.
To promote the race, the district’s government officials, athletes, media representatives, TV hosts, entertainment stars and foreign students rode bicycles in five teams through Putuo in late April, a side event of the dragon boat festival. They collaborated to form a giant dragon boat picture scroll.
On May 28, the Mengqing Park will also showcase the rehabilitation achievements of Suzhou Creek. Visitors will see how the polluted Suzhou Creek become beautiful.
Putuo now boasts clean rivers, impressive riverbank landscapes and vertical greenery. This year, Putuo will build a new area of green land covering 500,000 square meters as well as 7-kilometer greenway and 30,000 square meters of vertical greenery.
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