* * * More than two thousand torchbearers took part in the torch relay. They started from Hangzhou, passed through Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Lishui, Jinhua and Quzhou in turn, and returned to Hangzhou on the 20th to complete the last relay.
Among them, the youngest is 14 years old, and the oldest is 84 years old, including 732 women, grassroots frontline representatives 12 19, advanced model figures 1069, sports workers 275, and a certain number of ethnic minorities, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots and disabled representatives.
How to select torchbearers for Hangzhou Asian Games?
The torch relay of Hangzhou Asian Games continues the theme slogan of "Harmony, @ Future", and more than 2,000 torchbearers will participate in the whole relay process. Torchbearers of Hangzhou Asian Games are mainly selected from the Olympic Council of Asia, Olympic Committees of other Asian countries (regions), Chinese Olympic Committee, Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee, cities in Zhejiang Province and sponsors of Hangzhou Asian Games.
Torchbearers are mainly recommended and selected by the organization, and are produced after being publicized by the local system; Among them, 30 torchbearers were selected by drawing lots through the theme activity of "Strive to be the torchbearers of the Asian Games".
The selection of torchbearers for the Hangzhou Asian Games fully considered the universality of sources, the representativeness of characters and the fairness of selection, covering outstanding athletes, coaches and other sports workers, model of the times, loyal guards, moral models, model workers, "the most beautiful people" and other advanced representatives who have made outstanding contributions to the Hangzhou Asian Games.
How to plan the torch relay route of this Asian Games?
Adhering to the concept of "green, intelligent, thrifty and civilized" of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the planning of the torch relay route of this Asian Games pays attention to simplicity and moderation.
In the process of compiling the relay route, all localities have always focused on the provincial brand of "Poetry and Painting in the South of the Yangtze River, Vigorous Zhejiang" and strived to highlight the "Zhejiang flavor" and "literary flavor". For example, Hangzhou's "Splendid and Prosperous Xintiantang Line".
It mainly focuses on the urban development from "West Lake era" to "Qiantang River era", from the dazzling dawn of Liangzhu civilization to Xizi Lake in sunny and rainy days, and then to Qiantang River, which vividly reflects the urban positioning of Hangzhou as "a famous historical and cultural city, a city of innovation and vitality, and a capital of ecological civilization".