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Why is Shilong the hometown of weightlifting?
Shilong Town in Dongguan is an ancient town with a history of more than 800 years, with an area of 10.38 square kilometers and a population of only tens of thousands. However, it is this small town that gave birth to Chen Jingkai, the first China athlete who broke the world weightlifting record and won the Olympic silver medal in the history of New China, and Ceng Guoqiang, who won the first weightlifting gold medal for the motherland in the Olympic Games ... Up to now, Shilong athletes have broken the world record and the youth world record in international competitions for 29 times and achieved fruitful results in international weightlifting competitions, Asian weightlifting competitions and national weightlifting competitions. So far, Shilong Town has successfully held many national, Asian and even international weightlifting competitions, and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government awarded Shilong Town the glorious title of "hometown of weightlifting".