Chapter 2373

The flood season of '99 passed in this lukewarm state. The water level was never as high as the same period last year, and this year the embankments everywhere had been rebuilt or reinforced, so the flood control capability had improved quite a bit compared to last year. Facing a lower water level than last year, they were naturally able to cope with ease.

This year's flood fighting and disaster relief did not cost as much manpower and material resources as last year, and the national economic development was basically unaffected.

Specifically for Chongjin County, various tasks in Chongjin County had seen a relatively large improvement this year. If last year was a year of laying a good foundation, then this year was a year of harvest.

By September, the water level of the Changjiang finally fell across the board, and it quickly fell below the warning water level. This meant that this year's danger had basically ended. Although the flood season had not officially ended, there was no more danger.

Except for the personnel on patrol and duty on the embankments, other personnel had basically withdrawn from the embankments, which made the common people of the entire Chongjin County heave a long sigh of relief.

And those common people who had immigrated to build towns finally understood why the central government wanted to carry out the policy of returning farmland to lakes. This was an iron-clad fact placed before them: returning farmland to lakes indeed had an immediate effect on flood control.

In mid-September, two more important projects in the Chongjin County New District were completed: one was the newly built Chongjin County Stadium, and the other was the newly built Chongjin County Library.

The Chongjin County Stadium was a comprehensive stadium and was open to the public. It included a soccer field with a standard track, as well as two smaller soccer training fields. In addition, there were four standard outdoor basketball courts, two outdoor tennis courts, and two outdoor badminton courts.

Besides these venues, some fitness equipment was scattered outside the stadium, which could be used by citizens for free exercise, and those ball courts could naturally also be used by citizens to play ball there for free.

Chongjin County's sports facilities were indeed too few. Except for the soccer fields and basketball courts in a few schools, there was only one soccer field and two basketball courts at the old Sports Commission, which was far from meeting the needs of the vast number of citizens in terms of sports.

Especially in the New District, sports facilities were almost a blank slate. The soccer field and basketball courts at the old Sports Commission in the old city could at least allow citizens to go play ball, but the New District now had a larger population than the old city, and it indeed needed such a stadium to meet the citizens' exercise needs.

This stadium did not cost much because there were not many auxiliary buildings, and the stands were simple and not luxurious, but it could truly and effectively serve the citizens and improve the citizens' satisfaction.

The library was an eight-story building. The first and second floors occupied a relatively large area and were a new theater allocated for the use of the county drama troupe. The upper floors were used by the county Cultural Center and the library. The library occupied the top four floors, which were the newspaper and periodical reading room, the adult reading room, the children's reading room, and the electronic reading room.

This comprehensive, multi-functional building could also meet the diverse cultural needs of the citizens.

There were two theaters on the first and second floors, which could perform two plays at the same time. The Chongjin County Drama Troupe could perform several types of plays, such as Peking Opera and Tea-Picking Opera, which could meet the different needs of opera fans.

The Cultural Center allowed some literature and art enthusiasts to carry out activities here, including calligraphy, Chinese painting, music, etc., which were all daily activities here.

The library was divided into four reading rooms, and the variety of books here had also increased. The county government allocated funds to allow the library to add many new books, especially the electronic reading room, which used computer networks to scan all the library's books into the server. Hanhai Company developed a system through which all the books in the library could be checked.

Especially for some precious historical materials and books in the library, they could no longer be borrowed for protection, but after being scanned into the system, this problem no longer existed. Readers could read them directly in the electronic reading room.

After the stadium was built, the Chongjin County government held a ball game tournament to welcome the National Day. The competition events included soccer, basketball, and badminton. Tennis matches were not held for the time being because the current mass base was not enough.

Those participating in these ball games included various county-level departments, various townships, various bureaus, and various enterprises, including enterprises in the Economic Development Zone, all of which could form teams to participate.

Such a competition naturally attracted the attention of many people, and various units were eager to sign up for the competition. Especially after the news spread that Su Xinghui had also signed up to represent the Chongjin County Party Committee to form a team to participate in the basketball tournament, the number of teams signing up for the basketball tournament suddenly increased, and in the end, the number of teams signing up reached nearly one hundred.

Basketball is considered one of the ball games with the best mass base in China. Every school has a basketball court, and basketball is also played in physical education classes. As long as they are young people, basically no one has never touched a basketball. Moreover, the number of people in a basketball game only needs five, or even three people can form a team to play, and the venue is simple, which is why it has such a good mass base.

However, there were too many teams participating in the basketball tournament this time. Of course, there were some people whose intentions were not in the wine, thinking about having intimate contact with Su Xinghui on the basketball court. Maybe Secretary Su would take a fancy to them?