On this day, 26 years ago, on October 16, 1999 (September 8, 1999, the 34th World Gymnastics Championships closed. On October 16, 1999, the 34th World Gymnastics Championships, which was competed by more than a thousand gymnasts from 73 countries and regions, came to an end in Tianjin and held a grand closing ceremony. Zhu Rongji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, Wu Jieping, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and Qian Weichang, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the closing ceremony. Following the 43rd World Table Tennis Championships, China athletes have created greater glory here. After hard work and hard work, China gymnasts have won four championships in the men's team, men's rings, women's balance beam, men's vault and third in the women's team, with good results of one silver and three bronze medals per person. This is a gymnastics event of unprecedented scale. The number of participants and the fierce competition are unprecedented in previous gymnastics championships in the past century. Five men's and women's individual events were held before the closing ceremony. After eight days of extremely fierce competition, all 14 gold medals were awarded. Except for China who won the men's team championship and Dong Zhen's rings gold medal, Li Xiaopeng's vault gold medal, and Ling Jie's balance beam gold medal, the remaining gold medals were allocated: Russia five, Romania three, South Korea and Spain one each.