Autumn is getting stronger, and a Frisbee sports venue in Panyu district, Guangzhou city is brightly lit, with a lively figure and enthusiasm of enthusiasts, mapping out the trend of the times in pursuit of health-it is countless fitness people who are active in the land of Shenzhou that jointly build an important cornerstone for building a strong sports country and a healthy China.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s sports industry has made great progress. National fitness has been vigorously carried out. In 2014, national fitness has become a national strategy. In 2022, Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games have been successfully held, achieve the goal of “driving 0.3 billion people to participate in ice and snow sports. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed, “carry out nationwide fitness activities extensively, strengthen youth sports work, promote the all-round development of mass sports and competitive sports, and speed up the construction of sports power.” This will make the beautiful blueprint for the development of China’s sports industry clearer and will definitely promote the national fitness to a higher level.

National fitness is integrated into public life

Sports is an important part of people’s healthy and happy life. To build a strong sports country and healthy China, the most fundamental thing is to enhance people’s physical fitness and protect people’s health. The data shows that the number of people who often take part in physical exercises in our country has exceeded 0.4 billion, and urban and rural residents have reached more than 90% of the qualified people in the National Physique measurement standard.

In August 2021, the State Council issued the National Fitness Program (2021-2025), which clearly stated that by 2025, the proportion of people who often take part in physical exercises would reach.

From the far-reaching national strategy to the lifestyle that benefits tens of thousands of families, national fitness has been integrated into public life.

On June this year, the 2021 China Fitness industry data report, which was guided by the State General Administration of Sports and the China Bodybuilding Association, was released. The report showed that, in 2021, the penetration rate of Fitness members and fitness population showed a growth trend for 5 consecutive years. As of December 2021, the number of fitness members nationwide reached 75.13 million, an increase of compared with 2020, the penetration rate of fitness population also increased from in 2017 to in 2021.

Guiding the masses to keep fit scientifically is an important prerequisite for carrying out national fitness. In recent years, sports departments at all levels have studied and standardized various fitness methods, combining online and offline, bringing scientific fitness concepts and methods to the masses, and strengthening the selection and training of social sports instructors, the team of grassroots sports workers continues to grow. By the end of 2021, more than 2.7 million social sports instructors had obtained technical grade certificates.

In June 2022, the sports law of the People’s Republic of China was revised. Ding Dong, director of the mass sports department of the State Sports General Administration, introduced that the newly revised sports law changed the title of the original Chapter II “social sports” to “national fitness”, making it clear that the country implements the National Fitness Strategy, build a public service system for national fitness, encourage and support citizens to participate in fitness activities, and promote the deep integration of national fitness and national health.

Nowadays, people’s fitness awareness is constantly increasing, and people gain health and happiness from sports. Sports play an increasingly important role in meeting people’s yearning for a better life and promoting people’s all-round development.

The playground is built beside the people

The Yangming Mountain Fitness Trail in Chongyi county, Ganzhou City is winding and winding, with full of green along the way. It has become a famous fitness “clock-in place” in Jiangxi province, and the citizens who exercise here every day are in constant stream. In recent years, Chongyi county has built and transformed a number of public stadiums, community fitness centers, fitness trails, etc. with the help of the National Sports General Administration, a counterpart support unit. The “10-minute body-building Loop” has basically taken shape.

Where to go for fitness? What the masses expect and think has become a breakthrough in carrying out mass sports work. In recent years, local conditions have been adapted to local conditions. Some have transformed the corner plots of the city into “Golden Horn and silver edge” for residents’ fitness, while some have opened up the “last kilometer” for serving the masses “, build the stadium to the masses……

By the end of 2021, there were 3.971 million national sports venues; The national sports venues area reached 3.41 billion square meters, and the per capita sports venues area was 2.41 square meters. “The government should guide the development of the project while providing more venues so that more people can participate in physical exercises.” Ding Dong said.

National Speed Skating Museum “Ice Ribbon”, “Ice Cube” ice sports center, Wukesong Sports Center, National Stadium, Capital Stadium…… A number of Winter Olympic venues were opened to the public after the closing of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympic Games to play a new role. The staff of “Ice Ribbon” said that in the future, we will focus on building a multi-functional ice and snow sports center integrating five functions: sports events, mass fitness, cultural leisure, exhibition and social welfare, become a new landmark for the masses to experience winter sports.

In March this year, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council clearly stated in the Opinions on building a higher level public service system for national fitness that by 2035, the public service system of national fitness, which is compatible with the socialist modern country, has been fully established. The document also puts forward 29 policies and measures from 8 aspects.

Let the masses enjoy a better supply of fitness venues nearby. In addition to expanding the increment, they should also revitalize the stock and plus-sized the opening of public sports facilities. In 2022, the Ministry of Finance issued a subsidy of 1.08 billion yuan for public stadiums to be opened to the society free of charge or with low fees. Comprehensively promoting the free or low-charge opening of public stadiums and promoting the two-way opening of school stadiums and social stadiums will effectively alleviate the problem of mismatch between people’s fitness needs and venue resource supply.

Online fitness expands new space

Wang Ke, a citizen living in Yangjiaping, Chongqing city, recently began to try online fitness. What he valued was the flexibility of this fitness method, “for office workers, it is not easy to take regular time to go to the gym every day.” Wang Ke said that because the working hours were not fixed, the previous fitness card had expired. “The rise of online fitness has helped me solve this problem.” Wang Ke said that unlike gym fitness, after participating in online fitness, he can also watch the playback and then find his own problems.

Ding Dong said that in recent years, with the general improvement of people’s fitness awareness, people’s fitness habits are also quietly changing. More and more people are gradually accustomed to home exercise through various sports fitness platforms, online clock-in, users become more and more dependent on the platform, and the vertical classification of projects becomes more and more detailed. These platforms are playing the role of traditional offline sports organizations and club associations, gathering people, organizing activities and providing communication and sharing channels.

As of the middle of September, the National Fitness online sports games jointly sponsored by the mass sports department of the State Sports General Administration and the mass sports department of the All-China Sports Federation and other departments have organized more than 100 events, A total of 39 national sports associations, 10 sports management centers, 10 provinces and cities, and more than 50 Internet platforms participated. The number of direct participants reached more than 13.63 million, and the cumulative number of clicks in each event exceeded 1.52 billion.

In October 2021, the State General Administration of Sports issued the “14th Five-Year Plan” for sports development, encouraging the development of “Internet + fitness” and “Internet of Things + fitness” modes, increase sports products and service resources, optimize online and offline fitness interactions, and increase home fitness scenarios and online fitness activities.

Everyone participates in sports, sports benefits everyone and accelerates the construction of a powerful sports country. Chinese sports is developing a more magnificent picture of the times.