History, Experience and Inspiration of Building Shanghai into a World Famous Sports City through Large-scale Sports Events——Taking the Shanghai Rowing Event as an Example
Using the methods of literature review, field investigation and case study, this paper takes the Shanghai rowing event as a case to study and analyze the process and experience of building Shanghai into a world famous sports city through large-scale sports events from the temporal-spatial dimension, and draws inspirations thereby. The research reviewed the rowing events in China and found that the development of rowing in China can be roughly divided into two stages:the initial stage (1852-1949) and the compre-hensive development stage (1949 to present). In addition, the development of modern rowing in China has benefited from the combina-tion of top-down policy support and bottom-up mass participation. The success of Shanghai rowing event has brought the following experience:(1) integration with urban landscape;(2) rational use of urban space;(3) integration of city (body) and sport (soul);(4) creation of new brands of the city;(5) panoramic three-dimensional new image of the city;(6) improvement of social benefits;(7) innovations and unique features in building Shanghai into a world famous sports city. On this basis, the research draws the follow-ing inspirations:first, provide sports events that people need to balance the contradiction between sports supply and demand;second, explore the development mode of sports events with local characteristics;third, establish sports events- "embedded" urban develop-ment mechanism;fourth, maintain the balance between time and space of large-scale events communication;fifth, make use of city-specific landscape to create new brands for city sports events.