20 14 On the evening of July 28th, the 5th China Midwest Youth Basketball Championship was grandly opened in Tongchuan Gymnasium. Liu Deyang, member of the Standing Committee of Tongchuan Municipal Committee and deputy mayor, Ren Rong, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, He Shangmin, deputy mayor, and Jin, vice chairman, attended the opening ceremony and watched the competition.

This competition is sponsored by China Basketball Association, China Midwest Youth Basketball Championship Council, Tongchuan New District Management Committee, Tongchuan Education Bureau and Tongchuan Sports Bureau, undertaken by Tongchuan No.1 Middle School and Tongchuan Midwest Basketball Culture Co., Ltd., co-organized by Shaanxi Institute of Physical Education, Tongchuan Basketball Association and Tongchuan Chaoyang Sports Club, and named by China Hongjin Scenic Area Management Committee. The competition will be held from July 27th to August 2nd. The game adopts the latest basketball rules approved by chinese basketball association. The competition has always been aimed at "popularizing campus basketball culture and vigorously developing sunshine sports", with the highest goal of discovering, excavating and cultivating more basketball reserve talents, which has a great impact on the weak basketball areas in the central and western regions and makes up for the blank of youth basketball events in the central and western regions.