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Zip Gyms

Beijing is creating mini sports grounds in its communities and parks. The sports grounds usually cover about 30 to 40 square meters and feature stationary bicycles, hopscotch lines, and even digital screens with online fitness and sports programs, among other things.

These grounds are part of the Zip project, which aims to install sports facilities in urban public areas. “Zip means compress. We try to zip various sports programs into limited space,” Li Changlin, Executive Director of Dream Deck, a Beijing-based urban planning and smart technology company, told . “Of

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