"Oxygen-Rich Run" Kicks Off in Tubole, Runners Create an Autumn Health Landscape

On September 27, the "Oxygen-Rich Tubole" Forest Health Run started in Inner Mongolia's Tubole National Forest Park. More than 300 runners from Guangxi, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia took on the 5.5-kilometer high-altitude uphill course. Amid the mountains of the Greater Khingan Range foothills, where the elevation ranges from 486 meters to 1,118 meters, they measured the beauty of nature with their footsteps.

In the morning light, participants gathered at the tourist service center. Professional coaches led warm-up stretches and explained the race rules. After the starting gun fired, the runners set off in three batches, their sportswear adding vibrant splashes of color to the autumn mountains and forests. Along the track, supply stations, medical teams, and staff on duty at dangerous sections provided full support throughout the race to ensure safety. While challenging their physical limits, the runners also enjoyed the stunning autumn scenery.

Wang Yanhua, a participant from Zhalantun, said, "Runners from Zhalantun, full of passion for sports and longing for nature, made the journey to attend this healthy gathering."

This integration of "sports + ecology" is creating a new landscape of cultural and tourism integration. Liang Lijun, a cultural and tourism promotion officer from Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, commented that Tubole's cultural and tourism features are highly representative of Northeast China. "The towering mountains offer a broad and magnificent view, and the primitive forests along the way fully preserve the landscape of the Greater Khingan Range—few other regions can match this," he said.

When the enthusiasm for sports blends with the beauty of nature, this race has ignited people's passion to embrace nature. The vision of a "Healthy China" is being illuminated by countless such footsteps.