At 3pm on the 16th, at the "Village Super League" football field in Rongjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, with the first kick of the Pingdi Village football team against the Kouzhai Village football team, the 2024 second Guizhou "Village Super League" final stage match officially kicked off. This year's "Village Super League" competition is divided into two stages: preliminary rounds and finals. After a month and a half, a preliminary competition involving 62 village teams produced the top 20 from villages such as Kouzhai Village, Dangxiang Village, Zhongli Village, and Pingdi Village. In the final stage, the top 20 are divided into two groups, A and B. They will compete in a round robin and knockout rounds until the championship is determined. A total of 98 matches will be played, mainly on weekends or holidays, and will last until May 25th. "This year's competition will be even more exciting than last year." Yang Yajiang, one of the members of the organizing committee of the Guizhou "Village Super League" and vice chairman of the Rongjiang County Football Association, introduced that there are 42 more participating teams in this year's "Village Super League" season than in 2023. The top 20 teams that have emerged from the preliminary rounds are already strong, and these teams can absorb and supplement local excellent players from the eliminated teams, further enhancing their strength and greatly contributing to the improvement of the competitive level in the final stage of the competition. At the opening ceremony that day, a total of 43 teams, including the team, cheerleading team, and exhibition team, with approximately 3500 people, participated in the parade. During the pre match, midfield, and post match stages of the three football matches held on-site, Rongjiang prepared more than 20 exciting song and dance programs and music and fireworks shows for fans and tourists, including "Shui Ethnic Bronze Drum and Lusheng Dance", "Dong Ethnic Folklore Eternal Inheritance", as well as song and dance accompaniment "Welcome to the Village Super League", song co singing "Return to Rongjiang", and "In a Foreign Land", allowing tens of thousands of spectators to immerse themselves in a joyful ocean. Xu Bo, Deputy Secretary of the Rongjiang County Party Committee and County Mayor, stated that this year, Rongjiang will focus on the social and economic benefits of "village supermarkets", strengthen the vitality of "village supermarkets", focus on creating important node events such as "Super Planet 6", innovate more new game methods, promote the integrated development of agriculture, sports, tourism, and commerce in Rongjiang, spread a happy culture through happy football, develop a happy economy, and drive more people in Rongjiang to increase income and become rich. (Lai Xin She)