“Celebrating New Year” Sports Center Opens for Free or with Low Charge

       During New Year holiday, to satisfy common citizens’ fitness demand, Dalian Sports Center will open to citizens for free or with low charge in specific period. The free/low charge events include table tennis, badminton, tennis, football, basketball and swimming. Citizens without travelling plan during New Year holiday can go exercising in the sports center and make a reservationby telephone one day in advance.

       It is said Sports Center opens free or with low charge at every Wednesday since 2013; since 2015, it opens free or with low charge on Fitness Day;since 2016，it opens free/with low charge at national holidays. Up to now, Sports Center has received nearly 1.2 million citizens with fitness demand, 25% of which have been granted with the policy of free exercise or low-charge exercise.

       The Sports Center will make the free/low-charge exercising policy normal, encourage every citizen to participate in sports events and enjoy the fun of fitness, build the Sports Center into a place of culture, sports and fitness for citizens, and change citizens’ regular life from “endless eating and drinking” into “endless exercising”, which manifests Sports Center’s concern of livelihood and humanitarian care.

Stadiums and venues of Sports Center for free/with low charge during New Year holiday:

Venue: Tennis center

Event: Tennis

Time: 9:00-11:00 and 14:00-16:00 from December 30 to January 1

Number of venues: 6 venues outdoors

Reservation No.: 0411-86698889

Venue: Damai Center(stadium)

Event: Badminton

Time: 9:00-17:00, January 1(close at 17:00)

Number of venues: 10 venues

Reservation No.: 0411-86698669

Venue: No.4 external venue of stadium

Event: Football

Time: 10:00-12:00 and 13:00-15:00, January 1

Reservation No.: 0411-86698789

Remarks: The venue will be closed in rainy and snowy days

Venue: Natatorium—warm-up pool (1.5-1.7 meters)

Time: 10:00-17:00, January 1

Discount price: Warm-up pool 20 Yuan/person/2 hours