Shared Gym Pure-Run Opens, With One Thousand to Follow by Year's End(Yicai Global) Sept. 7 -- Following the debut of the shared gym Misspao, Pure-Run, another shared fitness facility, has opened in Beijing.
Its founder expects to open 1,000 shared exercise facilities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen by the end of the year in the first batch.
Pure-Run kicked off in Beijing yesterday. It is the first shared running gym equipped with an air cleaning system and intelligent kinetic analysis, CNR reported. The gym has a smart treadmill that customers can use by scanning a QR code with a smartphone. It can upload motion data in real time and features social-sharing functions.
Pure-Run is cooperating with some well-known domestic real estate companies, e.g. China Vanke Co. [HK:2202], China Evergrande Group [HK:3333] and Greentown China Holdings Ltd. [HK:3900], and expects to locate in housing developments and business districts nationwide. Zhang Dong, Mo Huilan and other VIPS attended the inauguration of Pure-Run. Zhang is the deputy director of the Group Division of the General Administration of Sport, while Mo is a former world gymnastics champion and a senior partner with Seaweed Capital.
