The list of the second batch of key cities for national football development during the 14th Five-Year Plan was announced.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 14 (reporter Ma Bangjie) on the 14th, the “notice of the General Office of the General Administration of Sports on the announcement of the second batch of key cities for national football development during the 14th Five-Year Plan” was announced. Beijing, Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture, Suzhou city, Hangzhou city, Meizhou city and Xi’an city were rated as the second batch of key cities for national football development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
The notice said that the State Sports General Administration and the Chinese Football Association jointly organized the material Review and field investigation work of the second batch of key cities for national football development, after the expert group reviewed and reported to the leading group of national football development key cities for research and approval, the list of the second batch of national football development key cities was determined during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
The notice requires all key cities to attach great importance to, establish and improve the working mechanism, strengthen Funds, the guarantee of land use and other factors ensures that all construction tasks are effective, actively explores useful experience for reference and promotion, and gives full play to the typical demonstration role.
On January this year, the State Sports General Administration announced the list of the first batch of key cities for national football development during the 14th Five-Year Plan. Nine cities including Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Changchun, Chongqing, Dalian and Qingdao are listed.
In may 2021, in order to further promote the implementation of the “overall plan for the reform and development of Chinese football” and to make a deep implementation of the special plan for football in the “14th Five-Year Plan” sports development plan, the State Sports General Administration, the Chinese Football Association jointly launched the construction work of “key cities for national football development”, selected a group of cities with good Football Foundation, good development conditions and high working enthusiasm, and strengthened support and guidance, build a demonstration city of football reform and development in our country, summarize the typical experience of promoting football reform and development, and promote the exploration of football development path with Chinese characteristics.
The construction of key cities for national football development takes five years as a cycle. During the 14th Five-Year Plan, 16-18 key cities are planned to be built nationwide.
The head of the national football development key city office said that they would establish a supervision and evaluation mechanism and organize expert groups to evaluate the construction effect of the National Football Development Key City every year. If the evaluation is unqualified, rectification within a time limit, if the rectification still fails to meet the requirements or the evaluation fails for two consecutive years, the title of key city will be revoked.