On the 28th, the State General Administration of Sport released the "Letter on the Reply to proposal No. 4968 (Medical sports No. 624) of the Fourth Meeting of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference" on the official website, replying to the "Proposal on the Urgent Revitalization of Chinese Football" in five aspects, including suggestions on the establishment of a "National Football Leading Group" and football starting from kindergartens.
Regarding the proposal to establish a "National Football Leading Group", the letter replied: In 2015, the State Council issued the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football" (hereinafter referred to as the "Overall Plan"), which opened a new journey of comprehensively deepening football reform in the new era. In order to implement the "Overall Plan", with the consent of the State Council, the State Council Football Reform and Development Inter-ministerial Joint Conference System led by the leading comrades of the State Council was established in March 2015, and its main responsibility is to provide macro guidance for the reform and development of football, coordinate the implementation of the "Overall Plan", supervise and inspect the completion of key tasks of football reform, and assist in solving major issues and major issues in football reform and development. The joint meeting is composed of 17 departments and units, including the Central Propaganda Department, the Central Reform Office, the General Office of the State Council, the Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Education. The operation mechanism of the joint meeting gave full play to the reform and development concept of "special affairs, first to try", and established a supervision and supervision mechanism, with remarkable results. In the process of implementing the key tasks of the Overall Plan, the relevant member units of the joint meeting and the China Football Cooperation Association are the leading units of various specific tasks, and will persistently promote the implementation of reform and development tasks.
Advice on starting football from kindergarten. Reply in the letter: In October 2018, the Chinese Football Association launched the "Doll Football Project" in conjunction with a number of departments and launched a series of key tasks. First, on the basis of research, organize social forces to carry out a series of empirical research on children's football to guide the scientific development of children's football activities; second, in 2019, the Chinese Football Association established a child football expert working group to collect physiological data and scientifically monitor the activities of young children's football events in 9 cities across the country, and then formulated technical standards for the health science of children's football events; the third is to make comprehensive deployment and promote member associations to start local children's football activities. At the same time, it provided technical support and assistance to the National School Football Office of the Ministry of Education to carry out the creation of special football kindergartens, organized and coordinated and participated in the children's football promotion activities in Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Wuhan, Shandong, Beijing, Henan, Hunan and other places, and organized and held two empirical research results exchange and display conferences of the "Chinese Football Association Doll Football Project" in Zhengzhou and Qingdao Chengyang District; the fourth is to promote enterprises and social forces to actively participate in and promote children's football activities, and together with member associations to cultivate a number of children's football promotion enterprises that radiate the whole country. The number of kindergartens served by each enterprise exceeds 200; the fifth is to strengthen publicity work, using professional leagues, youth events and the official website of the Chinese Football Association to publicize doll football; the sixth is to take the social football brand youth training institutions recognized by the Chinese Football Association as the core, promote all kinds of social football training institutions at all levels to actively carry out early childhood football services, and the number of kindergartens served by each brand youth training institution has increased by more than 3 per year in the past few years. In the next step, the Chinese Football Association will further summarize the past work experience and continue to do a good job in the promotion of children's football and the popularization of youth football.
Proposals for the construction of football fields and efforts to expand the football population. Reply in the letter: The Development and Reform Commission and other departments have carried out special actions for the construction of social football venues and facilities nationwide, clarified the goals and tasks step by step, established a monthly statistical system and a supervision and implementation mechanism, carried out self-inspection and acceptance and promoted typical experiences. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the number of social football stadiums in the country increased from 6,507 at the beginning of 2016 to 33,464 at the end of 2020, adding 27,000 new social football venues; the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other departments carried out pilot work on the construction of urban community football venues and facilities, and built and transformed 779 community football fields in 9 cities (counties) in two batches according to local conditions, relying on community football venues to hold more than 440 football matches and other fitness activities. The Chinese Football Association will continue to cooperate with the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the General Administration of Sports and other departments to continue to promote the construction of social football venues and facilities across the country, cooperate with the implementation of the "Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of Football Venues and Facilities in Urban Communities", solidly promote the construction of football venues and facilities in urban communities, and implement the opening of campus football venues and stadiums to students and society. With free and low-cost football fields around the people, the football population will inevitably increase significantly, and a good atmosphere of national fitness and young people actively participating in football will be formed in the whole society.
Proposals for strengthening the management of football players. Reply in the letter: The Chinese Football Association has revised the "Measures for the Administration of National Team Athletes of the Chinese Football Association", which puts forward clear disciplinary requirements for national team athletes at all levels. National teams at all levels will strictly implement the relevant requirements of the "Management Measures", effectively strengthen the management of the life, training and competition of national team athletes, fully demonstrate the positive and upward spirit of Chinese football players, and set a good social example. Among the specific requirements for national team athletes at all levels, the national team and U23 national team athletes are strictly prohibited from having new tattoos, and those who have tattoos are advised to remove their tattoos on their own, and if there are special circumstances, they must cover the tattoos during training and competition after the consent of the team; the U20 national team and the following national teams at all levels are strictly prohibited from recruiting athletes with tattoos. At present, there is basically no concept of provincial team in the domestic football team structure, and athletes who violate discipline in the club will be dealt with in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Disciplinary Code of the Chinese Football Association. National teams at all levels will further organize and carry out various forms of ideological and political education activities, strengthen the patriotic education of national team athletes, enhance the sense of mission, responsibility, and honor, and build a national team that can fight well and have a good work style.
Proposals for the establishment of professional or semi-professional football teams in provinces, cities and counties. Reply in the letter: In accordance with the relevant requirements of the "Overall Plan", in order to give full play to the role of functional departments at all levels of government, the General Administration of Sport has promoted sports schools at all levels to actively carry out football projects. Attach importance to and strengthen the work of football youth training in various provinces and cities, and incorporate the development into the assessment of local government work. Promote the reform and innovation of the institutional mechanism of local sports schools at all levels, actively open football projects and continuously increase investment, and continuously improve the level of training and teaching, competition, infrastructure construction and team support. Support qualified sports schools to build into national football youth training centers, relying on sports schools to form a football youth training network that radiates and drives regional development. Encourage private schools such as all kinds of martial arts schools to actively carry out football training and provide relevant professional support for them. In promoting this work, with football as a breakthrough, we will promote the reform and innovation of the sports school system and mechanism and transform the development mode. Innovate the formation of sports school sports teams, explore the open team model of cooperation between sports schools and schools, clubs and social organizations, support cross-regional recruitment of athletes, form multiple training teams of different ages, and expand the scale of training. Physical education departments at all levels have increased investment to explore the guarantee service models such as sports teams, establishment, funding, and incentives of sports schools under the new situation, breaking down obstacles and stimulating the vitality of sports schools to carry out football. At the same time, with the popularization and promotion of football and talent training as the center work, with the campus as the core, we will increase the promotion and popularization of football projects among young people, cultivate interest, and expand the scale of participation. Primary and secondary schools actively support the development of football projects, cooperate with sports schools, youth training institutions, and football schools to enter the campus to establish football clubs, and use professional teachers and other resources to support the development of campus football. On this basis, excellent seedling organizations with good football foundation, high level and strong willingness to train are selected to carry out improved professional training and cultivate outstanding football talents.