Representatives from the Jiading Sports Bureau, the Jiading Education Bureau, the Rugby Football Club and the Nanxiang School
District, etc., were in attendance at the event opening ceremony, where
Madam Zhu Fang, Deputy Head of the Jiading Education Bureau, announced
the official start of the games. Addresses were also made by Wu Baoying,
Person-in-Charge for Elementary Schools in the Nanxiang School District
and Principal of Nanxiang Primary School, and by Madam Du Huihua,
Administration Director of FUCHS China.
Said Madam Du: "FUCHS China is a company that has its origins in Germany and which has grown in China. It was the first foreign
lubricants company to set up shop in China following the implementation
of the reform and 'opening-up' policy in China. In its thirty years in
China and twenty in the Nanxiang area, FUCHS China has been able to
achieve success thanks to the spectacular rise of the Chinese economy
and the support of the government. Our success has also been made
possible by our strategy of sustainable development and our commitment
to aligning our economic needs with environmental imperatives and our
social responsibility. Not only are we concerned with economic
development, we have also committed in the long term to our social
responsibility. We are focused on the future and helping the next
generation, and on supporting the community and giving back to society.
Six years ago, FUCHS China joined hands with the Nanxiang Primary School
on the "Sports for All" program where children could visit the Rugby
Football Club once a week for their workouts, experience the
extraordinary magic of sports, and cultivate their capacity for
teamwork. More importantly, the program has also helped participants to
become more confident, braver, and stronger. We promise to continue
providing support for the Sports for All program like we have in the
past."
About a hundred households from 22 neighborhoods in Jiading District participated in the contest, which consisted of five major segments: a
bungee race, a 30-meter obstacle course race, a race where participants
had to run barefoot across stone-paved lanes to retrieve balls, Walk the
Plank with inflatable dinghies, and a real-life version of the "Angry
Birds" game.
