I represent the Jinling Exercise and Health Promotion Alliance (JEHPA) in China. Our mission is to improve the wellness and quality of life for all individuals in China by promoting scientific exercise prescriptions and user-friendly behavior change programs. We are looking for additional EU members to join JEHPA.
What can you bring to the Move Europe?
JEHPA has extensive experience in the following areas:
1) Exercise to reduce drug-abuse relapse
The JEHPA is cooperating with 9 municipal drug-abuse treatment centers to promote exercise/physical activity among those drug abusers. They are located in different cities such as Lian Yungang, Yancheng, Suzhou,and Zhenjiang.We helped developed a variety of equipment for physical rehabilitation training.
2) In-school activities
We also take responsibility for physical fitness screening test every year in a total of 82 universities and primary/secondary schools in Jiangsu province.
3) PA promotion in community senior centers
Jiangsu Senior Sports Association, a member of the JEHPA, is a voluntary sports and fitness organization for senior in Jiangsu, a non-profit social organization. Senior Sports organizations have been established in all cities, counties (cities and districts) and more than 95% of towns and streets in Jiangsu. The province provides 713 gateways, 173 volleyball courts and 9,656 chess and card rooms for senior. There are more than 5,200 sports and fitness teams of various types in the province, and 5.9 million senior citizens regularly participate in sports and fitness activities.
4) Outdoor activities
We have the copyright of a customized intelligent footpath for objectively monitoring people’s daily walking or running behaviors. Up to now, more than 100 footpaths, serving over 100,000 people every day, have been applied into nearly 20 provinces and cities in the east of China, such as Jiangsu, Beijing, Tianjin, Gansu, Zhejiang, Hainan, Shandong, Hebei, Shenyang, Heilongjiang and Shaanxi.
What are your expectations and learnings from Move Europe?
We are looking forward to having a pleasant cooperation with you to promote healthy lifestyles through proper PA related activities.
Where do you live in China?
I live in Shanghai, a city on the east coast of China.