老区长汀县又名汀州,是当年中央苏区重要组成部分和福建省委省苏维埃政府省军区省职工联合会所在地,与红都瑞金相邻。在那艰苦的革命战争年代,福建省委省苏维埃政府仍然非常重视组织开展群众性体育运动和竞技性体育比赛,大力发展赤色体育事业,以提高军民身体素质和军事技能为革命战争服务。因此,福建苏区许多县(市)、区都成立了赤色体育 Changting County, also known as Tingzhou, was an important part of the Central Soviet Area and the provincial government of Fujian Province, the provincial government of Jiangsu Province, the provincial military union is located next to the red and Ruijin. During that arduous and revolutionary war, the Fujian Provincial Provincial Committee and Soviet Government still attached great importance to organizing and conducting mass sports and competitive sports, vigorously developing the red sports cause, and improving the physical and military qualities of military and civilian personnel and serving the revolutionary war. Therefore, many counties (cities) in the Soviet area of ​​Fujian Province set up red sports