On April 29, “DOBE Sports LOFT International Sports Industry Alliance” was formally established.
Hongkou District Park Office’s Director Le Zixing, Hongkou District Sports Bureau’s Director General Jiang Hanjun, Guangzhonglu Subdistrict’s Deputy Director Yao Zheng, DOBE Group’s Board Chairman Jia Bo, DOBE Sports LOFT International Sports Industry Alliance’s person in charge Shi Jianmin, Deputy Secretary General of the CKGSB Alumni Society of Cultural and Creative Industries and the Sports Industry Alliance’s person in charge Si Yaming and Shanghai Ruishi Sports & Culture Development Co., Ltd. co-founder Adam inaugurated the alliance together. Hongkou District Park Office’s Deputy Director Luo Juan, Hongkou District Sports Bureau’s Deputy Director General Zhang Jialian and other leaders were present at the inauguration.
The launching of DOBE Sports LOFT International Sports Industry Alliance
With the assistance and support of Hongkou District Park Office and Sports Bureau, DOBE united different forces to establish the “International Sports Industry Alliance”. The alliance is established to integrate government, enterprise, industry and venue resources, break barriers, provide alliance members with a platform for sharing resources, exchanging information, starting businesses, helping and serving each other. The alliance plans to organize exchanges and collaborative exhibitions regularly, to promote cooperation between upstream and downstream industries; link the government with enterprises, to make government policies benefit more enterprises in the sports industry; link up the sports industry’s capital, introduce external resources, build an international platform, to support the industry’s development.
Hongkou District Sports Bureau’s Director General Jiang Hanjun said in his speech: “DOBE Sports LOFT has become an important representative of Hongkou District’s cultural and creative parks. By establishing the industry alliance, it built a more open and convenient platform for information exchange between enterprises and the government, which can help the government to know and serve enterprises better.”
Director of Hongkou Sports Bureau Mr. Jiang Hanjun
Hongkou District Park Office’s Director Le Zixing said: “as China’s first international sports industry park, DOBE Sports LOFT is the pioneer among Hongkou District’s existing sports venues and parks. The International Sports Industry Alliance’s establishment also provides the park’s enterprises and the alliance’s members with a platform to share resources. Hongkou District also will provide such an effective platform’s establishment with policy support and guarantees.”
Hongkou District Park Office’s Director Le Zixing
Deputy Secretary General of the CKGSB Alumni Society of Cultural and Creative Industries and the Sports Industry Alliance’s person in charge Si Yaming congratulated “DOBE Sports LOFT International Sports Industry Alliance” on its establishment and expressed expectations for follow-up alliances and deep cooperation with the alliance.
Deputy Secretary General of the CKGSB Alumni Society of Cultural and Creative Industries and the Sports Industry Alliance’s person in charge Si Yaming
Located at Huayuan Road close to Hongkou Football Stadium, DOBE Sports LOFT formerly was the East China Electric Welding Machine Factory of Shanghai Electric Group. The factory building group is called “The Museum of Chinese Contemporary Factory Buildings”. As China’s first international sports industry park, since it opened in 2009, the park has served nearly 1,000 enterprises successively. China’s current largest sports website www.hupu.com is one of the first enterprises to have grown up in this park.
By the end of 2015, DOBE Sports LOFT had successfully operated for 7 years and become a public space highly integrated into the surrounding communities. The park has distinctive theme sports venues open to pedestrians 24 hours everyday. Thus it has become the best place for residents in surrounding communities to have physical exercises. Meanwhile, to the enterprises in the park, the diversified sports venues and facilities let their employees enjoy the fun of sports after work. The moderate relaxing work environment has inspired the teams more.
An introduction of DOBE Sports LOFT Creative Park given by Ms. Shi Jianmin
As the operation of DOBE Sports LOFT matures day by day, in the space and activity platforms built by the park, cooperation between enterprises also becomes frequent. www.hupu.com in DOBE Sports LOFT once invested in another enterprise www.paohaile.com in the park. The latter is China’s first APP to combine exercise with music. It advocates “no music, no exercise”, devotes itself to creating professional and interesting sports communities for people who love running. Meanwhile, the park’s enterprises ZuP8 and J& J Books also have joined hands. By combining exercises with reading, they have broken the limitation of space and developed exercises for different groups of people.
Co-founder of IN SPORT & ENTERTAINMENT Adam
DOBE Group’s Board Chairman Jia Bo mentioned in his speech: “as an emerging industry, the sports industry in the next 10 years will start a boom of innovation and entrepreneurship, and thus become an importance force to promote China's economic growth and transformation. DOBE Sports LOFT has gathered 179 enterprises. It began to introduce specific sports industry as early as in 2008. The park’s networking and the construction of exchange platforms formed cooperation between enterprises, as well as the prototype of the sports industry alliance. Sports enterprises can depend on the park, gather more resources through the platform of the “International Sports Industry Alliance”, radiate outward to support the sports industry’s development better.”
DOBE Group’s Board Chairman Jia Bo
DOBE Sports LOFT is the initiator and important booster of the “International Sports Industry Alliance”.DOBE has successfully operated more than 30 cultural and creative clusters in China and Italy. Over 5000 companies are served by DOBE in the area of Shanghai.
