The main stadium of the Haixia Olympic Sports Center in Fuzhou is ready for the first National Youth Games, which will be held in Fujian province from Oct 18 to 27. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]

I am currently with dozens of media colleagues in Fujian province from Sept 17-22 to report on its preparations for the first National Youth Games (NYG), which is exactly a month away.

The NYG is the largest sports meeting ever in Fujian, with more than 7,300 athletes from across the country coming to compete from Oct 18 and 27.

Over 300 sports events will be held during the period in all nine prefectural-level cities and the Pingtan Comprehensive Pilot Zone, with Fuzhou, the capital city, will be staging more than 60 percent of them.

And my coverage starts from here.

Local authorities have made quite impressive promotion efforts, as I can easily see NYG-themed flags fluttering everywhere in painting advertisements on buses. A driver told me that NYG is the chief concern of the city.

We were shown around the Haixia Olympic Sports Center in the Cangshan district in the morning. It is an epic project consisting of a stadium, an arena, a natatorium and a tennis hall connected to one another with pedestrian streets in the air!

The main stadium occupies a land area of more than 60,000 square meters, with a capacity of 60,000 seats. It looks like a conch from afar and will host the opening ceremony of the NYG.

We also took a tour to another state-of-the-art gym in the Mawei district later in the day. It will host basketball events during NYG.

Addressing the concerns about the use of the venues after the NYG, a local sports official pledged that it will maintain the primary purpose of sports and, with a range of outdoor facilities, it will provide a variety of public sports options including badminton, basketball, tennis and gate ball with low charges.

Fuzhou is an ideal leisure destination and its people have great affection for all sports. The world will get these messages. Yet it has a lot more tags one needs to know about.

The city's history dates back to 202 BC and has long remained as the political center of Fujian.

It is one of the starting points of the Maritime Silk Road and one of the five treaty ports in modern China.

The Mawei district is regarded as the cradle of the modern Chinese navy and the birthplace of the Shipping Affairs culture.

Plentiful geothermal energy leads to an intensive distribution of hot springs.

Fuzhou has ambitions to become an economic hub on the west side of the Taiwan Straits. The central authorities have endorsed its plan by approving establishments of a free trade zone and multiple high-tech parks, so that its economy is firing on all cylinders.