Source: CCTV.com

01-17-2007 17:18

Xu Zongheng (C), mayor of south China''s city Shenzhen, jubilates with other delegates in Turin, a northern city in Italy, Jan. 16, 2007.

The International University Sports Federation has announced that the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen will host the 2011 World University Games.

Shenzhen beat out four other candidates to host the games: Kaohsiung of Chinese Taipei, Poznan of Poland, Kazan of Russia and Murcia of Spain.

The announcement was made on Tuesday during an executive meeting of the FISU at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Chinese basketball player Yi Jian Lian, and gymnast Dai Feifei are the athletes representing Shenzhen city.

In the biding report, the city government had promised to build 12 new stadiums any gyms in four districts of the city.

A new International Olympic Center featuring a 60,000-seat main stadium, a 18,000-seat gym, a 13.4-square-kilometer park and other facilities, will also be established in the city.

Shenzhen has become the second Chinese city to host the games after Beijing hosted the 21st World Universiade in 2001.

Beijing hosted a successful Universiade two months after it won the rights to host the 2008 Olympics.

China, already sending its top-notch athletes, has a glorious history in Universiade competition. In Beijing 2001 and Daegu 2003, China topped the medal standing.

 

Editor:Du Xiaodan