Editor's note: 2021 is the first year of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the second centenary goal. In the past year, NPC deputies and CPPCC National Committee members have been concerned about the country's state and the people's livelihood, gathered public opinion, gathered strength, and handed over one wonderful answer sheet after another. Since March 1, the Ministry of Economic and People's Livelihood Interviews has launched the column "The Year in which Deputies and Members Perform Their Duties", interviewing representatives and members from government departments, industry organizations and front-line grassroots committees, approaching the deputies and members who will participate in the two sessions of the National People's Congress, tracking their footsteps in performing their duties, and listening to their voices in performing their duties.
Many people know Zou Kai, in the summer of 2008, in the Beijing Olympic Games, only 20 years old, he won three gold medals in the men's team, free gymnastics, horizontal bar, and achieved the Chinese gymnastics team grand slam. Since retiring in 2016, although Zou Kai has left the arena, he has been active in the sports world in another capacity.
On February 3, the Beijing Winter Olympic Torch Relay completed the relay at the Badaling Great Wall. In the 1.47-kilometer relay distance, 40 torchbearers held aloft the silver and red torches to "fly" up the stairs, and Zou Kai, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Gymnastics Management Center of Sichuan Sports Vocational College, was fortunate to be one of the torchbearers. ”
Beijing Winter Olympics torchbearer Zou Kai. Courtesy of respondents
From the campus to the arena, it's a cycle in itself. The school sends professionals to sports teams at all levels, who can return to campus to teach experience to more students after experiencing the competition.
However, in the past year's performance survey, Zou Kai found that although most colleges and universities are very complete in sports hardware facilities, they are relatively scarce in professional talents.
"At the two sessions of the National People's Congress this year, the proposalS I brought mainly revolved around promoting retired athletes to enter schools to teach, while continuing to promote the professional development of physical education, it also provided a broader development space for more children who love sports." Zou Kai said.
Retired athletes need channels and platforms to continue to exert their residual heat off the field.
Data show that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the number of physical education teachers in China's compulsory education stage increased from 502,000 to 595,000, although school sports have made great progress in recent years, but in some rural areas, there is still a shortage of physical education teachers.
In this context, broadening the source of physical education teachers has become one of the important measures for the development of school sports.
In August 2020, the General Administration of Sport and the Ministry of Education issued the Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Sports and Education and Promoting the Healthy Development of Adolescents, which pointed out that the implementation of the "Management Measures for Part-time Teachers of School Physical Education and Aesthetic Education", the formulation of a system for outstanding retired athletes to enter the campus as physical education teachers and coaches, the formulation of a system for teachers and coaches of sports schools and other sports systems to teach in primary and secondary schools, and a system for teachers of primary and secondary school cultural classes to teach in sports schools. Smooth the channels for outstanding retired athletes and coaches to enter schools and serve as physical education teachers, and explore first entry and then training.
Policies have also "blossomed" in local areas. Zou Kai introduced that in July 2021, Sichuan Tianfu New District explored the integration of sports and education, established a sharing mechanism for physical education teachers, and recruited retired world champions, retired athletes, coaches and outstanding physical education teachers to the Tianfu New District Physical Education Teacher Sharing Center to teach students a variety of sports projects through the way of "scheduling classes and going to school" in the whole district.
It is understood that retired athletes only need to hold professional qualification certificates, as well as relevant materials, you can apply for stationing in the platform, after signing the cooperation agreement, according to the needs of students, schools, by the sharing center coordination, as a physical education teacher or sports coach, for a number of pilot schools.
Zou Kai walked into the school to conduct research. Courtesy of respondents
Promote happy gymnastics into primary schools, hold Sichuan Provincial Children's Basic Happy Gymnastics Competition, and when he is with children, Zou Kai will always lean down to communicate with them.
Zou Kai began to be exposed to gymnastics at the age of 4. He said that gymnastics is very beneficial to basic physical training, and children learning gymnastics between the ages of 3 and 6 can enhance the coordination, balance and flexibility of the body, making the body more "able to move".
On February 25, Zou Kai celebrated his 34th birthday. From the "Olympic Hardware King" to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Zou Kai walked off the field and into the grassroots, turning his attention to the national fitness and gymnastics into the campus.
"Let more children love sports and get happy in sports, in order to find more excellent sports talents." The development of youth sports is not only a support for competitive sports, but also a responsibility for the health of the people. Zou Kai said.