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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts
Recreation and Sports Programmes
In 2016, the LCSD organised some 38,000 recreation and sports programmes for about 2.1 million participants of all ages and abilities at a total cost of $154 million.
District Sports Teams Training Scheme
A total of 9,389 young people took part in 259 district team events about basketball, football, handball and fencing.
Young Athletes Training Scheme
Training was conducted for 30,380 teenagers in 30 sports disciplines.
School Sports Programme
The programme provided 8,180 sporting events for 611,800 students at about 980 primary and secondary schools through seven subsidiary programmes: Sport Education, Easy Sport, Outreach Coaching, Joint Schools Sports Training, Sport Captain, the Badges Award Scheme and the Sports Award Scheme.
Community Sports Club Project
The project, organised by the department in collaboration with the NSAs, supported about 430 Community Sports Clubs in organising 2,350 sports training activities for 51,000 participants. Seminars and management development programmes were formulated for some 480 sports volunteers to help them run the clubs.
Sports Subvention Scheme
The department provides subvention to the NSAs and other sporting organisations for sports promotion and development. The subvention covers office and personnel expenses and spending on NSA programmes. In 2016, subventions totalling about $280 million were allocated to 59 NSAs and 22 sport organisations, which organised 10,610 sports programmes for 732,780 participants. The subventions included subsidies for NSAs to stage local and international events in Hong Kong, such as the IWAS Asian Wheelchair Fencing Championships 2016, Asian Table Tennis Qualification Tournament - Qualification Event for the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, East Asian Muaythai Championships 2016 and 5th Men's Asian Hockey Federation Cup. Subsidies also went towards supporting the NSAS in strengthening squad training and in helping athletes representing Hong Kong take part in overseas competitions.
'M' Mark
The 'M' Mark system aims to increase support from the commercial sector and the community for NSAs to develop sustainable major international sports events. Twelve events were awarded 'M' Mark status and/or support packages in 2016.
Corporate Games
The Corporate Games is a major multi-sport event organised by the department every two years for working people. In 2016, over 9,000 employees from 233 industrial, commercial and governmental organisations took part in 11 sports competitions.
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