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Original title: Breaking a record at the Paralympic Summer Games, busy preparing for the Paralympic Winter Games: Gong Xiufeng’s “barrier-free” change
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 3. Title: Breaking Records at the Paralympic Summer Games and Preparing for the Paralympic Winter Games
—— Gong Xiufeng’s “Barrier-Free” Switching
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Zhi, Shen Nan and Yu Sihui
From central Beijing to the west, you can reach Shougang Park, where the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Organizing Committee is now located. Most of the staff enter and exit through the organizing committee’s Xiaoximen The outer wall The closest building to Xiaoximen is the emblem of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, “Winter Dream” and “Jump”.
Looking from the window where “Feiyue” is, it is the office where Gong Xiufeng works and the Barrier-free Coordination Office of the Paralympic Department of the Organizing Committee of the Winter Olympics.
Before “Leap”, Gong Xiufeng was probably most familiar with the emblem of the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games. At the Summer Paralympic Games, where the modern Olympic Games originated, he fought hard and broke the world record for shot put F46.
From the birth of a farmer in Erbozi Village, Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County, Qinhuangdao City, to breaking world records, Gong Xiufeng’s life has enriched various experiences. At first, with the simple idea of ”working hard, making money to support his family”, he lost his left hand in an accident with an explosion when he was working in a gold mine in 1989.
After that, Gong Xiufeng worked as a substitute teacher of physical education in the village and also helped people to sell fruits, work as porters and cut firewood in Qian’an, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao, Beijing and other places … During this period, he wrote to the Hebei Federation of Persons with Disabilities. I passed him the letter and asked about sports for the disabled, and therefore received a notice from the Qinhuangdao Federation of Disabled People. The next day, Gong Xiufeng rushed to the Municipal Federation of Persons with Disabilities in a passing truck. After testing, he was selected as the track and field team. After that, he went through the Provincial Paralympic Games, National Paralympic Games and Paralympic Games … Gong Xiufeng finished his glorious and satisfying event and in his sports career he became a disabled worker in Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County.
In a year, the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games will open. Gong Xiufeng still remembers when he was recruited when working at the grassroots level in 2019, first coming to work in the Paralympic Department of the Organizing Committee for the Winter Olympics.
“I did not become familiar with it for a month or two, so I learned it and looked at it slowly,” Gong Xiufeng recalled: “You must not only be familiar with your own field of business, but you must also learn about other business fields, in order to that can unleash its commercial field. The role of the whole event. “
The Gong Xiufeng department is responsible for helping to implement the requirements of the “Accessibility Guidelines for the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games”, primarily to check whether the barrier-free construction of the venues meets the requirements of the guidelines. and whether the Streamline barrier-free operation meets the needs of the event.
“The barrier-free environment is not only a necessary condition to ensure travel and participation of disabled people in social life, but also to provide comfort to the whole of society.” All members of society, including the disabled, better integrate into society, unleash their potential and realize their value in life. “
To do a good job on the related work, Gong Xiufeng introduced that the Winter Olympics Organizing Committee hired barrier-free zone experts to review the barrier-free operation of the facilities. The Beijing Federation of Persons with Disabilities and the Zhangjiakou City Federation of Persons with Disabilities also selected ten experienced barrier-free staff members to participate in the Winter Olympics venues. In addition to finding the shortcomings in the field survey experience of building barrier-free environments in the host city, and then gradually improve.
At the grassroots level, Gong Xiufeng was responsible for advertising, culture, sports, and physical counseling for the disabled. As a result of the foundation established during the previous athletes period, Gong Xiufeng also played a role in guiding the exercise and fitness of the disabled in a series of “Welcome to the Paralympic Olympic Games and New Year” and other activities. activities jointly organized by the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, the Federation of People with Disabilities grassroots and the community. Dig deeper into various communities, promote the Paralympic Winter Games, encourage people with disabilities to actively participate in social life, and build their confidence in fighting the epidemic.
“All local federations of people with disabilities are organizing ice and snow melting projects for the disabled. Disabled people do not necessarily have to play competitive ice and snow sports. Projects such as curling on dry land can also allow disabled people to get out of the home and promote the physical and mental health of the disabled. ” During his fitness instructor training, Gong Xiufeng also tried ice and snow sports and learned to ski. “Now I am a stunt runner and I can skate on the youth rink.”
Gong Xiufeng said that disability actually has a great impact on people’s physical and mental health. And practicing sports not only helps the disabled to regain their physical functions, but also increases their confidence in the process, “feeling that they are increasingly useful.”
Every weekday at 6:40 a.m., Gong Xiufeng gets up, washes, and then travels for more than half an hour to the Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, eats in the cafeteria, and then begins the day’s work. This rhythm takes almost two years.
Looking out the window where “Feiyue” is, you can see the hills in Shougang Park. Gong Xiufeng witnessed the vegetation change on the mountain more than once in all four seasons. And when it comes to life next time, including Gong Xiufeng, there will come the great event that many people in this park have been fighting for for several years.
“When I was an athlete before, I never thought there would be such a large team supporting the normal running of the Games, involving dozens of commercial docking fields.” Gong Xiufeng said, “I enjoyed a high-quality competition environment in time. Now, I also hope to use my hard work and practical actions to work hard and create a high-quality competition environment for others.”
