Chifeng's sports engine powers regional economic integration

The traditional games featured a total of 18 competitive events, encompassing traditional Mongolian sports such as wrestling and horse racing. New additions to the program included shaga (a traditional throwing game using sheep or camel anklebones) and camel polo - both of which symbolically represent the rich heritage of nomadic pastoral culture.

In an even more significant development, organizers have invited UNESCO intangible cultural heritage experts and international sports journalists to discuss plans for promoting the "Three Manly Skills" of the Mongolian ethnic group,—Bokh, or Mongolian wrestling, horse racing, and archery, as a cultural exchange program under China's Belt and Road Initiative.