2023 Jingdong Suqian Marathon and the Grand Canal Marathon series (Suqian) 
started in the hometown of King Xiang Yu (the Overlord of Western Chu) at 7:30 
am, April 2nd, with 12,000 marathon runners rushing to the track with great 
enthusiasm.

As the youngest prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, Suqian is one of the 
prefecture-level cities with the fastest developing speed and the most obvious 
comprehensive strength improvement in the Yangtze River Delta region. The 
Jingdong Suqian Marathon course starts from the hometown of Xiang Yu, along the 
abandoned Yellow River, the Grand Canal, through the Pear Orchid Sea and the 
Luoma Lake. It enables runners to savor the beauty of Suqian's natural ecology, 
urban and rural livability, landscape charm and human culture, and green 
development in their running.

In 2021, the debut of Jingdong Suqian Marathon left the circle with "zero 
negative comment". This competition is the second marathon held in Suqian, and 
it is also a sports and tourism combined brand event built by Suqian Municipal 
Government. The competition attracted 15,170 contestants, covering 32 
provincial administrative units across the country, including 11 elite foreign 
contestants. After the fierce competition, Ethiopian contestants AMANUEL 
TESHOME TEREFE and BETELHEM HAJI SERB won the men's and women's full marathon 
respectively. They set new records for the Jingdong Suqian Marathon, according 
to Suqian City Marathon Organizing Committee.

Since last year, Suqian has carried out more than 200 events in 21 projects to 
continuously promote the construction of an international fashion sports city.

Source: Suqian City Marathon Organizing Committee

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   Caption: More than 10,000 runners participated in the marathon in Suqian, 
the "water and wine town" in China.