To celebrate Dragon-boat Festival, to meet Youth Olympic Games, unusually brilliant in Youth dragon-boat race in Jinniu Lake Park

As we know, the sentiment of the Dragon boat festival can’t be apart from water. No matter on the river bank of Miluo or in Stanley in Hongkong, all the people will celebrate on that day by the way of dragon-boat race or setting lights on the river. Dragon-boat race is a crucial part of civilization of Dragon boat festival.

There’re a lot of dragon-boat races this year in Nanjing. The dragon-boat race on June 5 held by Sheraton Nanjing Kingsley Hotel & Towers is the 10th time till this year. And there will be a dragon-boat endurance race on Qinhuai River in September. In October, the 1st national teenage dragon-boat race will be held in Xuanwu park……Besides, the Youth dragon-boat race in Jinniu lake in Nanjing, 2010 China, hosted by the government of Luhe District, Administration of Sports of Nanjing, Bureau of Urban Utilities and Landscaping of Nanjing, Commission of Communist Youth League of Nanjing and organized by Management Committee of Jinniu lake, Administration of Sports of Luhe, Commission of Communist Youth League of Luhe and co-organized by Nanjing Daily Newspaper Group, will first raise the curtain of Dragon boat Festival. This activity attracts high degree of concern and support in all directions. People say it’s not only watching the race but also watching the esprit of Youth Olympic Games.

Of course, if you do come to Jinniu Lake personally on June 3, it’s quite sure that you can’t help being merged into the passionate atmosphere there. On a hundred meters long dam, nearly 30,000 persons they made an extraordinary high atmosphere there. 12 race teams from inside and outside the province tried all their best to gain a good result, which built a strong atmosphere for the impeding the Dragon-boat Festival.

The team from Chaohu, Anhui province came in the very fist in preliminary, quarter-final and finals and became the gold medal winner with 150 thousand RMB. It is said that dragon boat race has one-hundred-year history in Chaohu. Local people there like holding dragon boat race very much every big festival, that’s why team from Chaohu could get such a good result.

The set of team from Golden Eagle International is the most terrific beyond all doubt. During the race, hundreds of people from Golden Eagle International beat drums, cheered and piped for their team, which made other team members jealous. Wenzhou chamber of commerce team is the only commercial team in this competition. Even they didn’t get a good result, they never feel disappointed. Cai Hongyou, administration vice president，secretary-general of Chamber of Commerce, said the subject of Youth dragon-boat race is very active and significative.（From Nanjing Daily）