A large number of outdoor enthusiasts joined the competition.
It is reported that the cross-country challenge was organized by the Yichang Municipal Sports Federation to enrich the amateur sports life of residents. The Bashiliang Grassland is adjacent to the Three Gorges Dam, with an altitude ranging from 1,000 to 1,200 meters. In ancient times, it was named for being "a hundred square li of desolate, uninhabited land," and the Song Dynasty literary master Ouyang Xiu once wrote the famous lines "A few households amid the wild haze, a lean field carved from the barren moor."