To celebrate the annual National Fitness Day, various activities were held across Shanghai on August 8, according to the Shanghai Sports Bureau.

This year, the main venue of the celebration was Fuxing Park in Huangpu District. From 7:30 to 9:00 a.m., citizens gathered at the park to meet with experts face to face for health and fitness advice, watched fitness performances and enjoyed services such as physical fitness tests.

As in previous years, a team of physical rehabilitation experts had been invited by the Shanghai Sports Bureau and the Shanghai Research Institute of Sports Science and were present at the event, offering professional fitness consultancy services and guiding people on the proper ways of doing exercise based on their Functional Movement Screen (FMS) scores.

Citizens in the other fifteen districts also participated in activities held around their community.

Moreover, on the same day, 540 sports venues were open to the public.