Source: Football Gazette
On the 20th, a jointly issued by the Tangshan City Development and Reform Commission and the Tangshan City Sports Bureau notice document circulated on the network. The content of the notice is "actively promote the introduction of the Chinese Super League team to support the development of the city's soccer career", then, the newspaper through authoritative channels to confirm the authenticity of the document.
In response to the matter, the latest information from the newspaper is as follows:
1, Tangshan introduction of Chinese Super League team situation is true, the target team for the just renamed Hebei team, the two sides are indeed discussing;
2, the two sides of the cooperation model has not been determined, it is possible that equity cooperation, the future of Tangshan as the home field, or with Langfang as a double home field, there may be a direct transfer to move into Tangshan;
3, once the club moved directly into Tangshan, Tangshan, this period of time to have a Super League team, especially for the vigorous development of the soccer industry and sports industry, to enhance the city's popularity, is absolutely good; Langfang, a combination of factors to see, is by no means only the loss of a team so simple.
Tangshan has enough economic power
In terms of economic volume, Tangshan, Hebei has all the strength to bring in a Chinese Super League team.
Although only a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province, but Tangshan's position in Hebei, similar to Dalian in Liaoning, Qingdao in Shandong, Suzhou in Jiangsu, are the economic development of their respective provinces, "the top chair".
In 2020, Tangshan's GDP reached 721.09 billion yuan, ranking 28th in the national city GDP rankings and first in Hebei. During the same period, Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, had a total GDP of RMB 593.51 billion in 2020, second in Hebei, with Cangzhou in third place, followed by Baoding, Handan and Langfang.
In addition, Tangshan's total GDP exceeds that of a number of provincial capitals in China, including Kunming, Changchun, Shenyang and Harbin.
Tangshan is also a typical heavy industry city in China's economic map, which is also known as "the cradle of China's modern industry", giving birth to China's first mechanized coal mine, the first standard gauge railroad, the first steam locomotive, the first barrel of mechanically manufactured cement, the first railroad bridge, and so on, a number of domestic firsts. In terms of the output value of the three industries, the proportion of the output value of the secondary industry exceeds 52%.
In terms of economic strength, Tangshan is enough to support a Chinese Super League team, of course, a single enterprise independent support is relatively difficult, but if led by the government, a number of enterprises jointly operated, there is no problem at all.
In terms of sports facilities, the new Tangshan City Sports Center is currently under construction, including stadiums, gymnasiums, swimming pools and other facilities, of which the main stadium stands can accommodate 35,006 seats, has completed the steel structure of the skeleton, in accordance with the plan, the new Tangshan City Sports Center will be completed by the end of 2021.
This stadium, in the future, will also be the team's main stadium.
Strong willingness to introduce
Tangshan's economic strength is fully capable of supporting a Chinese Super League (CSL) team, and the current question is how to operate to bring in a CSL team?
Previously, the CFA stipulated that professional clubs are not allowed to transfer across associations, meaning that if a professional club is registered in a local soccer association, it can only be transferred between cities under this association. In this case, inter-provincial transfers are naturally impossible. Previously there was news that the FA intended to liberalize this rule, but it was only a rumor, and there is no indication that the FA allows inter-provincial transfers.
In this case, the only club that meets the conditions for the introduction of the city of Tangshan is Huaxia Happiness, and another team from the same province, Shijiazhuang Yongchang, has settled in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, and changed its name to Cangzhou Lions Football Club.
Hebei Huaxia Happiness does face some difficulties as well, and a move to Tangshan is possible for the club's healthier and more stable development.
Sources close to the newspaper also indicate that Tangshan is currently negotiating with none other than Hebei Football Club.
According to our understanding, Tangshan City Government departments are indeed talking with Hebei Football Club in the introduction of the team. Tangshan each other on the introduction of the Chinese Super League club's strong will, the city leaders attach great importance to and made important instructions, the municipal government level has also set up a task force, is a special study and actively promote related matters. Tangshan city's purpose is very clear, in China's soccer back to rational stage of intervention in professional soccer, the huge social impact of soccer and development potential, hope that through the introduction of the Chinese Super League club, to promote the development of the city's soccer business, enhance the city's image and influence, and pull the economy and sports industry upgrading.
What is the trade-off between Tangshan Langfang?
As for Hebei FC, the first team has finished the first stage of winter training before the Spring Festival, and is still on vacation, the next stage of training will be based on the schedule of the new season; the club has normal office at present, and the staffs have been busy preparing the admission materials for the new season and the administrative change process of the club's name recently. Affected by the group's business, Hebei Football Club's current difficulties are well known, although the group's support for the club as always, the club also has the determination to continue to engage in, especially now the club's investment has reached a very rational range of circumstances, but in the current environment, the club for a variety of cooperation are open to, which led to the Tangshan City contact with the club, after all, living is more important than After all, living is more important than anything else.
Once the two sides agreed, the future of the Hebei team may take the double home system, that is, Tangshan home + Langfang home, of course, does not rule out the possibility of moving the home and the club completely to Tangshan, which depends on the Tangshan side of the policy and financial support given to the club how much. If the final farewell to Langfang, for Hebei club, it is really helpless. Since the club set up its home ground in Langfang in 2018, the popularity and influence of this obscure third-tier city sandwiched between Beijing and Tianjin has been rapidly boosted with the help of soccer matches, TV broadcasts and media publicity, and Langfang has become the only third-tier city among the 16 cities hosting teams in the Chinese Super League, but on the flip side, there is a limited amount of various support given to the club at the city level. If Hebei Football Club moves to Tangshan City, there is no doubt about the positive impact on Tangshan City, but for Langfang City, no matter from the aspect of sports industry and soccer industry development, or the city's popularity and influence, as well as the club's contribution to the city's economy, will be seriously affected.
In addition is the introduction of the model. From this notice of Tangshan City, Tangshan City, Tangshan City, gave a direction: the government to promote, enterprise operation, at the same time, to encourage private capital to host. In addition, the symposium is organized by the Tangshan Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Sports Bureau and the Tangshan Municipal Culture and Tourism Group, the Tangshan Municipal Culture and Tourism Group's figure surfaced, but also shows that this heavyweight state-owned enterprises may not stay out of it.
Founded in 2008, Tangshan City Culture and Tourism Group was organized as a key municipal state-owned enterprise in 2018, with a registered capital of 3.18 billion and total assets of more than 20 billion, which is quite strong.
This notice requires counties and municipalities, development zones from their respective jurisdictions to screen three to five strong, enthusiastic sports business enterprises to participate in the symposium, indicating that the city of Tangshan also realized the need to unite more power to invest in soccer.
The newspaper learned that the information shows that the cooperation model has not yet been determined, in terms of the overall development of the future, if you want to stabilize the maintenance of a Super League team, diversified shareholding structure is imperative, and the most stable program is led by state-owned enterprises, private enterprises to participate in, such as Tangshan City, Culture and Tourism Group and Huaxia Happiness cooperation, at the same time, a number of Tangshan City, a number of powerful enterprises participate in the shares, so that the pressure borne by each enterprise will not be too great. And the joint force is not small.
The current impact on this cooperation is perhaps the time. From now until the 2021 season of the Chinese Super League kicked off, only a month or so left, in such a short period of time to operate the introduction of the work, the difficulty is not small, and from the Tangshan City of this notice, the introduction of the work is still only in the preparatory stage, has not yet finalized the implementation of the introduction of the operation may be carried out in 2021, the introduction of the operation at the end of the year to complete the introduction of the work is more likely to be completed.
