Study On The Role Of City Marathons In Building Healthy Cities

The city marathon,a sports event that does not require complex physical movements,is a sport for all and therefore it is popular with the broad masses.In recent years,the development of the city marathon has been booming,with host cities swelling and its scopes and scales continuously expanding.With the rapid development of the city marathon,its economic benefits,social development benefits and its great influence on citizens have been generally recognized by society.In 2016,the strategy of "Healthy China 2030" was proposed in China.In this context,it has become an important trend in China to promote city development by hosting sports events to facilitate the construction of healthy cities.Thus,there is a great need for us to think deeply about what contributions city marathons have made to promoting the construction of healthy cities.This paper studies the role city marathons play in constructing healthy cities based on literature study,case analysis,questionnaire survey,mathematical statistics and logical analysis.To be more specific,it makes a case analysis of the 2017 Beijing Marathon and the 2017 Hangzhou Marathon by doing field research on them,conducting a questionnaire survey of the athletes,volunteers,viewers and some citizens.Then,the paper analyzes the collected data from two aspects.From the perspective of quantitative study,one the one hand,the paper uses SPSS factor analysis to summarize the main components of the role of city marathons in building healthy cities,thus drawing a conclusion about the general role;on the other hand,from a perspective of qualitative study,the paper studies the relevant literature about the Hangzhou Marathon and Beijing Marathon and their development course,combined with the results of the survey,and sorts out the concrete role that the city marathon plays in promoting a healthy city according to all the detailed indexes.The conclusions are as follows:1.The index system of the city marathon's role in promoting a healthy city consists of three first-level indexes:healthy city brand,healthy citizens and healthy urban environmental facilities.The cumulative contribution rate of the three indexes amounts to 65.75%,The average score in terms of healthy city is high,which indicates that the city marathon is highly impact on promoting a healthy city and the former has a positive role in promoting the latter.2.The cumulative contribution rate of the city marathon to the indexes related to healthy city brand amounts to 54.36%,with the average score in terms of healthy city brand being high.It shows that the city marathon has a positive role in shaping a healthy city brand.This is mainly reflected in the following aspects:to improve city savor and establish a healthy city image,.to promote the development of its relevant sports industries,to enhance its popularity,to raise its overall competitiveness,to improve the city's appearance,to raise its habitability index,to raise its citizens' sports attainment,to promote its spiritual civilization construction,to disseminate healthy sports culture and to enrich citizens' spare-time cultural and spiritual life.3.The cumulative contribution rate of the city marathon to the indexes related to cultivating healthy citizens is 6.56%,with the average score in terms of healthy citizens being high.This indicates that the city marathon has a positive role in fostering healthy urban residents.This is mainly reflected in the following:to relieve their negative emotions,to help them develop a healthy life style,to enhance their consciousness to participate in physical exercises,to better their physical constitution,to propagate and popularize healthy sports knowledge and to launch a national fitness campaign.4.The cumulative contribution rate of the city marathon to the indexes related to urban environmental facilities is 4.84%,with the average score in terms of healthy urban environmental facilities being high.It shows that the city marathon has a positive role in optimizing its environmental facilities.It is primarily reflected in the following aspects:to purify the city's natural environment,to beautify its landscape facilities,to perfect its fitness green channel,to better its urban gym centers for sports and leisure and to promote its urban infrastructural construction.