In July 2015, the Russian Chinese Youth Sports Games will start in Irkutsk. Preparation was discussed at a subcommission meeting on sports cooperation. The sides also discussed sports cooperation prospects, including hockey, sambo and preparation for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The Games will include 12 sports, and the opening and closing ceremonies will be held at landmark venues in Irkutsk Region.
The start of the Russian-Chinese Youth Sports Games is scheduled for July 2015.This was discussed on Thursday at the 4th meeting of the Subcommission on Cooperation in the Field of Sports of the Russian-Chinese Commission for Humanitarian Cooperation, held in the government of the Irkutsk Region. The Russian delegation was headed by Yuri Dmitrievich Nagornykh, Deputy Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation. The Chinese side was represented by Yang Shuang, Deputy Minister and head of the General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China. In addition, representatives of sports federations and representatives of the Government of the Irkutsk Region took part in the discussion. At the meeting, the parties discussed prospects for strengthening and developing cooperation in the sports sphere and preparations for the Summer Olympic Games, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The discussions also touched on topics in the field of sports science and education, the holding of international hockey sporting events, and the development of sambo. The parties exchanged views on the promotion of ice hockey and agreed to further strengthen cooperation in order to promote the development of ice hockey in China
Yuri Nagornykh thanked his Chinese colleagues for the excellent organization and conduct of the recently concluded Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing; in his words, Russian-Chinese cooperation has long-term prospects in the field of sports, and the views of the two countries coincide. For example, the leading positions of young athletes from Russia and China at the competitions held confirm the fact that the system for training the sports reserve has the right development vector. As part of the sixth Russian-Chinese Youth Games, competitions in various sports are planned: volleyball, basketball, futsal, archery, freestyle wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling, judo, table tennis, rhythmic gymnastics, water polo and swimming, wushu. The opening of the Games is planned to be held in the indoor athletics arena of the Baikal-Arena sports complex, and the closing ceremony in the Taltsy architectural and ethnographic museum. This meeting became the longest in the history of such gatherings. It was decided to hold the next, 15th meeting of the subcommission in Irkutsk right during the Games. Following the meeting, a Protocol on bilateral cooperation was signed.
As stated by Pavel Nikitin, Minister for Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region, the Angara Region has a broad base for holding such a significant international event and has experience in organizing such competitions.
According to materials from the press service of the administration of the city of Irkutsk.