January 17th to 21th, In order to warm up the coming Spring Festival, a friendly basketball match was held in Weiqiao Pioneering Group basketball hall. This match was jointly organized by the double-support leading group of Zouping County, General Union and Weiqiao Pioneering Group. The ceremony was attended by the leaders listed below: Pi Taitian, party secretary of Zouping; Zhang Yongcai, Zouping Artillery Regiment commissar; Sun Lihua, deputy secretary of the county; Zhang Shiping, Zhang Bo, Zhang Hongxia, leaders of Weiqiao Pioneering Group; Cui Lixin, leader of Innovation Metal.
This match is aimed to enhance unity and friendship, promote harmonious sharing, and constantly carry out a variety of exchanges, ultimately to further promote the communication among politician, military and civilians. Four basketball tournaments have become the bridge and the link between the military and people, thus to enhance the sentiment and understanding between both parties. It is the epitome of the culture from Zouping double-support and sports, and especially it is the witness of profound friendly sentiments of the military and civilian.
For a long time, under the concept of “developing the economy while supporting our military”, we vigorously carrying out projects based on "harmony, cooperation and sharing" and creating a brand of "grand support" so as to open up a new map of integration and development between military and the people. This match fully reflects our enthusiasm of supporting for the military, also provides a good opportunity to further enhance bilateral friendship and deepen military and civilian relationship. Through the match, the employees are able to apply the spirit of cooperation and courage into their daily work and life, and input more enthusiasm and style into the work. Hopefully, both the local social economy and military modernization could reach to a new level high.
In the 5 days of competition, 8 teams respectively from the county authorities, the artillery regiment, Pioneering authority, Pioneering Women's Basketball Team, Development Zone, Innovation Metal, the Public Security Bureau and Ford Friends, conducted a total of 28 games via the single round robin system competition. Innovation Metal carefully set up the team, with external aid from Shandong Normal University, University of Jinan, Shandong University of Technology and other institutions and staff from the fifth plant in the first Park, Development Department, Driver Crew and Innovation Precision Technology. These players made concerted efforts on training and planning, striving to play well at each game. Also, Innovation Metal leadership attaches great importance to this match, that the Chairman Cui Lixin visited the stadium to command and cheer for the player; Deputy General Manager Wang Wei as the team leader, greatly inspired the team morale. Innovation finally won the fifth place and the "unity and progress" medal.
At the end of the match, Cui Lixin awarded the trophy of the moral fashion award for the Ford Friends.