aowu Trail Race will offer qualification points for the renowned Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) as the event kicked start Thursday in South China's mountainous Fujian Province.
The cross country race, attracting over 1000 runners from around the world to compete in three divisions, will provide three points for the UTMB.
The race starting point was set at Heping town, an ancient town which is dated back to Ming dynasty as the route was designed to take participants to enjoy various fantastic sceneries along the way.
Organizers hoped the race could help further promote Shaowu city, where Heping town is located.
"Heping town as well as Shaowu city is a famous tourist destination. I hope sports fans, together with their friends and families, could experience joys both from sports and a tour around the city," said Zheng Jianqiang, Chairman of Fujian Provincial Road Running Sports Association.
UTMB, an annual mountain ultra marathon in the Alps, follows the route of the Tour du Mont Blanc through France, Italy and Switzerland. It is considered as one of the most difficult and risky races in Europe. It requires participants to win some qualifying points to make sure they're well prepared.
BEIJING Mats Hummels Trikot , Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- The State Council, China'scabinet, said Wednesday that it will continue to strengthenimplementation of major central policies and decisions to betterpromote growth and improve people's livelihoods.
Both progress and problems were found after the State Councilrecently launched a new round of field inspections and athird-party evaluation of local government implementation ofcentral policies and major tasks Matthias Ginter Trikot , according to a statementfollowing an executive meeting presided over by Premier LiKeqiang.
Initial results have been obtained on local governmentsfulfilling the tasks set at the Central Economic Work Conference inDecember and in a government work report early this year, accordingto the statement.
However, problems still lie in fields including capacity cuts Marvin Plattenhardt Trikot ,unreasonable fees and commercialization of research findings, thestatement said.
The cutting of surplus production capacity will be continuedunswervingly, with special focus on the weeding out of substandardsteel production Niklas Sule Trikot , it said.
The government will further reduce costs by applying standardsand supervision to fees levied on enterprises by sectoralassociations, chambers of commerce and various societies, in amajor push to put an end to unregulated excessive chargingpractices.
The government will further promote innovation-drivendevelopment Kevin Trapp Trikot , with an evaluation system to monitor the environmentfor innovation and entrepreneurship set to be established.