The march played during the opening ceremony of the sports meeting is called "Athletes' March"

Song title: Athletes' March

Singer: Chinese People's Liberation Army Military Band

Composer: Wu Guangrui, Jia Shuang, Li Mingxiu

Lyricist: Anonymous

We are like eagles spreading their wings and flying, we are like petrels facing the wind and waves

We are like The rapid current is unstoppable, rushing out of Asia to win glory for the country

We are like mountain eagles spreading our wings, and we are like petrels facing the wind and breaking waves

We are like the rapid current being unstoppable, rushing out of Asia to win glory for our country

To win glory for the country in the century

For the friendship of the five continents, for the ideals of all mankind

To carry forward the spirit of the Olympics, we compete in the sports field

For the five continents Friendship, for the ideal of all mankind

In order to carry forward the Olympic spirit, we compete in the sports field

We are like eagles spreading our wings and flying, we are like petrels facing the wind and waves

We are like an unstoppable torrent of water, rushing out of Asia towards the century to win glory for our country

For the friendship of the five continents and for the ideals of all mankind

To carry forward the spirit of the Olympics, we compete In that sports field

We are like eagles spreading their wings and flying, we are like petrels facing the wind and waves

We are like the unstoppable rapids of water

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Creative background

In 1971, in order to welcome the Asian Table Tennis Friendship Invitational Tournament held in Beijing, relevant departments asked the Chinese People's Liberation Army Military Band to compose a "Athletes' March".

In a few days, seven or eight comrades composed a single melody of "Athletes' March". After some deliberation, everyone agreed that the main melody written by amateur composer Wu Guangrui was better, but it needed further processing. The group leaders decided to send professional creators Jia Shuang and Wu Guangrui to complete this glorious task.

In order to write "Athletes' March", Wu Guangrui had many heart-to-heart conversations with athletes, watched their sports games, read relevant sports materials, and listened to some famous marches at home and abroad repeatedly. In the gymnasium, when the athletes entered the stadium with great appearance, Wu Guangrui also played and sang the song himself, asking the athletes to perform to the beat of the music. After the hard work of Wu Guangrui and other comrades, this heroic "Athletes' March" was finally born.