The United Arab Emirates is a federal state consisting of seven emirates, including Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, and um Al Quwain.

The Gulf state of the United Arab Emirates is rich in oil, and its territorial waters are full of oil. The oil produced in the Gulf region is quite high, and their oil is in high demand in the international market. The emperor's daughter does not worry about getting married, and no matter how the international situation changes and the international average oil price rises and falls, the oil of the Arabs can be sold at a higher price in the international market, so as to exchange for real money.

With a large amount of capital earned back from the oil trade, the Gulf tycoons have willfully built a bustling international metropolis - Dubai in the desert.

Dubai's tycoons are rich and capricious, but they are not stupid, they know that a single resource-grabbing economic development model will not last forever, and once the oil resources are exhausted, they will have to return to the traditional way of life hundreds of years ago when they ride camels and live in tents and eat flatbread on dates.

As a result, people in Dubai began to diversify and develop, and the money used to pretend to be willful was actually a small amount, and most of the funds were invested in the cause of benefiting future generations.

Dubai is located on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf, relying on geographical advantages, Dubai people will build the city into the largest entrepot trade port in the Gulf region, vigorously develop trade, transportation, logistics, tourism and shopping, finance and other more diversified business, after years of development, with a population of more than 2 million Dubai is now the economic and financial center of the Gulf region and even the Middle East and North Africa Arabic-speaking region.

Located in the east of Dubai, the Ahmed Ibrahim Almatum Swimming Pool is a state-of-the-art swimming pool named after a respected sheikh who is the product of Dubai's local tyrants.

In Dubai, where fresh water is more precious than oil, build an international state-of-the-art swimming pool that is rarely used by locals. Of course, that's not even the most capricious, about 10 kilometres away from the Emirates Swimming Pool in Almatum, there's also the world's largest indoor ski resort, Ski Dubai, yes, you heard it right, there is no one of the "world's largest" indoor ski resorts. Desert, scorching heat, largest ski resort...... The combination of these words that intersect with ice and fire does not have a sense of disobedience, and it seems that in Dubai, there is nothing impossible.

The Chinese swimming team arrived in Dubai four days ahead of schedule, allowing plenty of time to bridge jet lag, adapt to the local climate, and familiarize themselves with the competition venues.

On the morning of November 12, the Chinese team conducted adaptive training at the Emirates Swimming Pool in Almatum, which is the venue for the Asian Swimming Championships.

The Chinese team only has one morning to get used to the venue, and the rest of the time is left to other national teams to adapt.

The venue is a high-end venue with two swimming pools, the swimming pool is 25*50 meters and the water depth is 3.2 meters, and the diving pool is 21*30 meters and the water depth is 5.5 meters. The pool water is all disinfected by ozone + chlorine preparation, and an air-conditioning circulation system is installed throughout the museum to keep the temperature on the bank of the pool at 22-25 degrees all year round.

With 5,000 permanent seats in the spectator stands on both sides, Dubai's organisers have added more than 4,000 temporary seats to support the Asian Championships, bringing the venue's total capacity to more than 9,000 spectators during the Asian Championships.

Compared with a football stadium that can easily accommodate tens of thousands of people, the swimming pool includes other closed venues, and the capacity of nearly 10,000 people is considered a medium and large venue. The maximum capacity of the Water Cube during the '08 Olympics was 17,000 (the Water Cube usually seats six or seven thousand people, but 10,000 seats were temporarily added during the Games).

All in all, all the equipment and facilities of this swimming pool in Dubai are high-end goods, which fully meet the requirements of international competitions. It not only meets the requirements of international competitions, but also is a world-class swimming competition venue.

The officials, coaches, and players of the Chinese team are satisfied with this venue, and the players have adapted to the morning.

After finishing the matter, the Chinese team pulled the team back to the hotel for training.

The hotel where the Chinese team stayed was only two streets away from the famous seven-star Burj Al Arab, because the budget was not enough, the Chinese team could not afford to live in the Burj Al Arab, the average price of a night in the hotel was several thousand US dollars, and all the members of the Chinese team had 146 people, and they lived for half a month, and millions of US dollars were gone, and they really couldn't afford to live.

If you can't afford to live, let's take a look at the head office, so the Chinese team stayed at the Ramada Dubai branch not far from the Burj Al Arab, and opened the curtains in the room to see the galleon.

Ramada is actually a five-star hotel with a swimming pool. The Chinese swimming team chartered this pool and trained here.

After an afternoon of training, after dinner, the officials and coaches allowed the players to go out for two hours of free activities, but also put forward requirements: must go together, be sure to respect local customs, do not cause trouble, if there is an emergency, the first time to implement the emergency plan of "waiting, calling, stopping", that is, "stay where you are, call the head coach immediately, and stay still in place after the call and wait for backup".

The leaders of the delegation can be regarded as humane leaders, these team members have been locked up in the South China Winter Training Base for 20 days for closed training in China, and they have to continue to be locked up when they go abroad, and they will be locked up for depression and confusion. Just let the players go out and relax before the game.

Sun Yang, Ye Shiwen and other big names often go abroad to compete, Lu Zhiwu, Wu Peng, Lai Zhongjian These veteran players also often represent the national team in international continental competitions, and they have gone abroad a lot of times, they have seen the world, have rich experience in competitions, and know how to regulate their emotions before the game, so they are too lazy to go out for a walk, so they stay in the hotel to rest.

Du Ke went abroad for the first time, and the first time he left the country, he came to such a country where local tyrants gathered, and he really wanted to go shopping. So Du Ke pulled Xu Jiayu and Wang Xian and a few young team members, left the Ramada Hotel, and wandered in the bustling night of Dubai.

Before coming to Dubai, Director Qin specially invited experts in the study of Arab customs from the Department of West Asia and North Africa of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and asked the experts to give lessons to the team members, mainly to popularize the customs and habits of Arab countries in West Asia, especially some religious taboos.

Not only oral teaching, Director Qin also asked the team members to take the exam, and they had to make up the exam, but they were not allowed to go to Dubai for the make-up exam. The leaders are strict, mainly for the sake of the safety of the team members after going abroad.

In the exam of customs and habits in the Arab region, Douca passed it in one session and got a perfect score. "In Islam, don't use your left hand to receive things from others, because they think your left hand is unclean," and "If you see an Arab woman wearing a veil on the street, don't take a photo with someone else, let alone take a secret photo." If you are going to be beaten to death on the street because of candid photography, we will not identify the body"...... These teaching points are ripe for Duke's back.

After visiting shopping malls, Burj Khalifa and other famous tourist spots, Du Ke thought that was just that. Although it is a religious country, Dubai is actually very secular, there are people of any color on the street, Dubai is indeed a very prosperous international metropolis, the commercial atmosphere is very strong, because it is too commercial, the sense of national characteristics is weakened, in addition to spending money on shopping, there seems to be nothing particularly interesting to do.

Duke didn't have much money, and the promised prize money for the national championship had not yet been paid, so he found shopping in Dubai boring. Even if the tens of thousands of dollars are delivered, it won't take a few days in Dubai.

On the 13th and 14th, Du Ke was too lazy to go out on the street, so he stayed in the hotel to train, and after practice, he read novels and played a few games in his room to relax.

Finally on November 15th, today, the Asian Championships will officially kick off.

First up was the heats, and the first event Duke competed in was the men's 400m freestyle. The Chinese team sent a combination of Sun Yang and Du Ke to compete in the men's 400 free.

In Asia, the real opponents of Sun and Du can be said to be only one -- South Korean star Park Tae-heng.