Recently, the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and other departments issued the "Implementation Opinions on the Reform and Development of Chinese Youth Football" and issued answers to reporters' questions on the "Opinions".
Among them, it is clear that -
➢➢ All types of schools at all levels regard football as an important part of physical education curriculum teaching and campus sports activities, and include after-school extended services.
➢➢ Incorporate after-school training into the school's daily education and teaching, form classes and school football teams, improve the training system throughout each school period, and establish a working mechanism for high-level coaches to guide teaching and after-school training.
➢➢ Improve the enrollment policy for football reserve talents, and study and introduce a reasonable flow policy for young players across school districts when they are admitted to higher education.
➢➢ Orderly expand the enrollment scale of high-level football sports teams in colleges and universities, especially "double first-class" universities, and establish a "one-stop" system of connecting primary schools, junior high schools, high schools, and universities.
➢➢ By 2025, the governments of key football cities and reform pilot cities will take the lead in implementing the policy of opening football venues to young people free of charge or at low fees.
➢➢ Expand the scale of primary football training in children's sports schools, and select and breed excellent football seedlings on the basis of cultivating interest and enhancing physical fitness.
➢➢ Implement the "Quality Improvement Action" of social football youth training, focus on supporting social football youth training institutions to build U13 and above echelons, and actively participate in youth football events.
➢➢ Improve construction standards, build 18 key football cities with development foundations, and strive to build a number of distinctive campus football reform pilot areas.
➢➢ Make use of foreign high-quality football education resources, expand the scale of high-level foreign lecturers, accelerate the construction of lecturers, and gradually establish a team of full-time coaches and lecturers.
➢➢ Football associations and professional clubs at all levels shall reasonably formulate training compensation standards, focusing on the implementation of football training compensation and joint mechanism compensation policies.
Implementation Opinions on the Reform and Development of Youth Football in China
The full text is below
In order to thoroughly implement the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on strengthening youth sports work and football reform and development, fully implement the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football" and the "Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Sports and Education and Promoting the Healthy Development of Youth", and promote the healthy, sustained and high-quality development of youth football, the following implementation opinions are formulated.
1. General requirements
(1) Guiding ideology. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and comprehensively strengthen the Party's leadership over youth football. Adhere to the people-centered approach, and promote the popularization of football for all young people. Adhere to the integration of sports and education, and cultivate all-round development of football talents. Adhere to the combination of popularization and improvement, and form a scientific work pattern of campus football promotion and popularization, and professional youth training strengthening and improvement. Adhere to the combination of the national system and the market mechanism, mobilize the forces of all sectors to develop youth football, strive to create a new situation in football work, and make due contributions to the construction of a sports power.
(2) Main objectives. By 2025, in accordance with the planning goals, we will promote the construction of schools with campus football characteristics, and establish a normalized assessment and exit mechanism. The China Youth Football League has become the top youth football competition with the widest coverage, the largest number of participants, the highest level of competition and the greatest social influence in the mainland. By 2030, the youth football population will increase significantly, the youth football competition and training system with a reasonable structure, orderly connection and clear hierarchy will operate stably, and the results of the men's and women's national football youth teams will rank among the top in Asia. By 2035, the governance capacity of youth football will be comprehensively improved, the competition and training system will be further improved, and the youth football national team will achieve excellent results in important international competitions, providing strong support for the comprehensive revitalization of Chinese football.
2. Continue to strengthen the popularization of youth football
(3) Steadily expand the football population. All types of schools at all levels regard football as an important part of physical education curriculum teaching and campus sports activities, and include after-school extended time services. Schools at all levels are encouraged to set up football clubs and participate in football competitions and activities inside and outside the school. The sports department and the football association support the trade unions, the Communist Youth League, the women's federation and other people's organizations to carry out a wide range of special football activities. Build a team of high-quality football culture and skill volunteers, and actively carry out various football public welfare activities such as "Happy Football" special volunteer services, public welfare football matches, and football carnivals. (The Ministry of Education, the General Administration of Sports, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the All-China Women's Federation, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(4) Prosper youth football culture. Strengthen the construction of youth football style, compile the "Youth Football Related Personnel Code of Conduct Manual", attach importance to the ideological and moral education of young athletes and the professional ethics education of practitioners, cultivate the spirit of patriotism, collectivism, unity and hard work of young athletes, and establish a healthy, happy and enterprising football concept. Encourage and guide the creation of a number of football-themed masterpieces such as animation games, literature, film and television that young people like to see. (The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
3. Innovate the training system for football reserve talents
(5) Improve the after-school training mechanism for campus football. Strengthen the regional co-ordination of football characteristic schools, optimize the layout of counterpart further education, and promote the balanced development of regional, urban and rural football characteristic schools. Strictly implement the requirements of the "National Youth Campus Football Characteristic School Construction Standards" to improve the quality of characteristic school construction. Incorporate after-school training into the school's daily education and teaching, set up classes and school football teams, improve the training system throughout each school period, and establish a working mechanism for high-level coaches to guide teaching and after-school training. Encourage ordinary schools to build together with youth training centers, sports schools, social youth training institutions and professional club echelons, cultivate a number of high-level school football teams, and steadily participate in all levels of the China Youth Football League. (The Ministry of Education, the General Administration of Sports, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(6) Strengthen the construction of the football team of sports schools. Support sports schools to cultivate into a team of football talents, encourage sports schools to complement and share educational resources, and cooperate with famous schools to run famous teams. Expand the scale of primary football training in children's sports schools, and select and breed outstanding football seedlings on the basis of cultivating interest and enhancing physical fitness. (The General Administration of Sports, the Chinese Football Association, and the Ministry of Education are responsible)
(7) Give full play to the leading role of professional football youth training. Improve the standards for the construction of youth training echelons of professional football clubs, clarify development goals, and provide classified guidance and step by step to promote the construction of various professional football club echelons. Implement the "Excellence Plan" for professional football youth training, carry out star rating of youth training colleges of professional football clubs, and continue to improve the overall quality management level of club echelons. Every year, we regularly carry out the supervision, supervision and technical guidance of the echelon of professional football clubs across the country, and give full play to the leading and exemplary role of professional football clubs in the cultivation of outstanding football reserve talents. (The Chinese Football Association and the General Administration of Sports are responsible)
(8) Promote the standardized and healthy development of social football youth training. Encourage social capital to invest in the establishment of football youth training institutions, continue to carry out the cultivation and evaluation of social football brand youth training institutions, and guide social football youth training institutions to become better and stronger. Implement the "quality improvement action" of social football youth training, focus on supporting social football youth training institutions to build U13 and above echelons, and actively participate in youth football events. Actively promote the beneficial exploration and experience of all localities in purchasing services and joint supervision from social football youth training institutions, implement territorial management responsibilities, and achieve standardized and innovative development. (The Chinese Football Association and the General Administration of Sports are responsible)
(9) Comprehensively strengthen the construction of youth football national teams. Establish and improve the teams of different age groups of men's and women's football teams, smooth the selection channels, and achieve the development of stubble. Select and strengthen the team of coaches, build a multi-field and interdisciplinary compound support team, continue to improve the level of scientific training, and actively explore the formation of relatively unified, mature and stable technical characteristics and tactical styles. Invite high-level foreign teams to come to China and organize high-quality competitions to sharpen the team. Strengthen the construction of team style and build national teams at all levels that can fight well and have a good work style. (The General Administration of Sports and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(10) Promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of youth football. Improve construction standards, build 18 key football cities with development foundations, and strive to create a number of distinctive campus football reform pilot areas. Increase support for youth football in old revolutionary base areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas, rural revitalization assistance areas and other areas. In the western region, we will carry out the pilot work of building a football youth training system that integrates sports and education, and increase support in teacher training, venue construction, competition activities, and talent training. Establish and improve a long-term mechanism for overseas education and training for youth football talents in the western region. Strengthen overall planning, and work together to promote the development of various forms of youth football fixed-point and counterpart support in the eastern and central football developed regions. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Finance, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(11) Expand channels and space for overseas training and training of young players. Encourage all levels and types of youth training institutions to select and send outstanding young players to overseas clubs for training and training, and participate in high-level competitions. The Chinese Football Association has established a long-term mechanism to provide services to overseas young players from the mainland, and has included international campus football exchanges in Sino-foreign sister city exchange programs and Sino-foreign inter-school exchange programs. Select outstanding football teachers, coaches, referees and other football professionals to study and exchange in developed football countries and regions. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
4. Strengthen youth football training
(12) Comprehensively promote the integration of training. The Chinese Football Association has built a five-level youth training center of "national, regional, provincial (regional, municipal), municipal, and district (county)" led by the National Football Youth Training Academy. By 2025, 20 provincial-level men's and women's football youth training centers will be established and continuously deployed in cities and counties, and by 2030, the provincial youth training centers will be fully covered. The Chinese Football Association and key football cities have jointly built five national high-level football reserve talent bases for men's and women's football. Relying on the pilot construction of sports schools, a number of football youth training centers integrating sports and education will be built, and a network of excellent football seedlings with full coverage of the region will be built. The sports department and the Football Association, together with the education department, have established a long-term mechanism for the integration and co-construction of the youth training center and the "Mantianxing" training camp, so as to achieve scientific layout, resource sharing and joint training. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(13) Comprehensively improve the quality of material selection. Build a big data management platform for youth football reserve talents, improve the selection standards and procedures for youth football players, and establish a scientific, objective and fair selection system to provide basis and support for the selection and training of football talents. Promote the construction of the scout team, go deep into the grassroots and front-line selection and file storage, strengthen the scientific tracking, stage evaluation and service guarantee of outstanding athletes, and dynamically adjust the training list of youth training centers and youth football national teams. (The Chinese Football Association, the General Administration of Sports, and the Ministry of Education are responsible)
(14) Accurately improve the effectiveness of training. Comprehensively promote the implementation of the "China Youth Football Training Program", and strengthen the monitoring and evaluation of its implementation. Establish a "normalized" training monitoring and "drip irrigation" service guarantee system for outstanding football seedlings, and encourage the establishment of social mentors and psychological assistance systems for key athletes. The Chinese Football Association has strengthened the construction of a knowledge management system and created an intelligent youth training service platform with "training diagnosis guidance, competition analysis guidance and online expert guidance" as the core content. Accelerate the completion of the shortcomings of the coaching ability of grassroots youth coaches with "science and technology training", and continuously improve the coaching ability of on-the-job coaches. (The Chinese Football Association and the General Administration of Sports are responsible)
5. Improve the youth football competition system
(15) Optimize the design of the competition system. Integrate resources from all parties and continue to promote the construction of a youth football competition system with the China Youth Football League as the backbone and other competitions as auxiliary and coordinated. Strengthen the standardized management of campus football events, continue to improve the level of competitions, and form a four-level campus football league system linked to the China Youth Football League. Expand and implement local events, encourage all localities to innovate the mode of organizing competitions, support the holding of grassroots events, and realize the coordinated development of local and national events. Support qualified areas to hold regional high school-age football leagues. Sports departments, education departments and football associations at all levels shall establish an annual consultation and joint release mechanism for the event. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(16) Strengthen diversified and comprehensive supervision. Improve the management of competition style and discipline, competition qualification review, disciplinary punishment, dispute resolution and other systems. Strictly investigate and crack down on all kinds of violations and illegal and criminal acts in accordance with the law, and strictly implement the requirements of anti-doping work. The Chinese Football Association has taken the lead in establishing a national youth football player registration system that integrates sports and education to achieve integrated registration and promote the reasonable and orderly participation and mobility of young people. Standardize the work of identifying the technical level of youth soccer players, and accept social supervision. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
6. Strengthen the training of football professionals
(17) Strengthen the training institutions for football professionals. Accelerate the construction of college football academies. Set up football majors and include them in the catalog of undergraduate (junior college) majors in colleges and universities, and support and encourage qualified schools to build football academies. Based on the needs of social development, we will steadily expand the enrollment index and vigorously cultivate football professionals. Research and demonstrate the "3+4" training mechanism between sports schools and ordinary undergraduates, explore the collaborative mode of production, education and research, promote the innovation and development of football vocational education, and realize the normalization and order-based training of football talents. Innovate the training model of football professionals. Explore the establishment of a "separation system between training and assessment", and recruit resources to expand the scale of training of coaches and referees with high quality. The Chinese Football Association relies on the University Football Academy to build a number of coaches and referee training bases, and cultivates "double certificate" football professionals through level training authorization and course certification. (The Ministry of Education, the General Administration of Sports, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(18) Strengthen the construction of the coach team. Step by step, we will implement the "Millions of Talents Project" for the revitalization of Chinese football coaches. Increase the training of grassroots football coaches, encourage and guide coaches to the front line of grassroots youth training. Adhere to the two-line development of "going out" and "bringing in", make use of foreign high-quality football education resources, expand the scale of high-level foreign lecturers, accelerate the construction of lecturers, and gradually establish a team of full-time coaches and lecturers. Open a green channel for coach training for professional football players, establish mechanisms such as financial support and honor system, and encourage and support outstanding retired football players to serve as youth coaches. 100 youth coaches for men's and women's football will be selected for key training, and a group of outstanding coaches will be selected to study in developed football countries to train them to become "leading" coaches. (The Chinese Football Association and the General Administration of Sports are responsible)
(19) Strengthen the service management of football professionals. All localities should improve the personnel management system related to physical education teachers and coaches, strengthen the construction of teachers' ethics and style, and ensure that physical education teachers or coaches enjoy the same treatment as teachers of other disciplines in areas such as merit evaluation, salary and treatment, professional title evaluation, and job evaluation. Physical education teachers or coaches carrying out activities such as football teaching, training, and competitions should be included in the workload. Campus football characteristic schools can set up full-time and part-time football coach positions according to actual needs. Strictly implement the coaching qualification management system for coaches to hold certificates and continue training. Encourage the pilot area of football reform to explore the sharing mechanism of coaches, and formulate standards for the evaluation of football coaches' titles in line with local conditions. (The Ministry of Education, the General Administration of Sports, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
7. Implement the youth football safeguard policy
(20) Smooth the channel for football reserve talents to go on to higher education. Improve the enrollment policy for football reserve talents, and study and introduce a reasonable flow policy for young players across school districts when they are admitted to higher education. Some cities and counties will be selected for pilot projects, and primary and junior high school students will be allowed to move in the county and city with the school team when they go to school. In some areas, middle schools will set up special football classes on a pilot basis, and pilot schools will be allowed to recruit students with football specialties in the province. High school and college students who have entered the echelon and first team of professional clubs can retain their student status. Orderly expand the enrollment scale of high-level football sports teams in colleges and universities, especially "double first-class" universities, and establish a "one-stop" system of connecting primary schools, junior high schools, high schools, and universities. Encourage all localities to give preferential policies to female football players in terms of enrollment quotas, incentive mechanisms, competition selection, and condition guarantees. (The Ministry of Education and the General Administration of Sports are responsible)
(21) Improve the compensation policy for the training of young players. Standardize and improve the transfer system for young players, and strengthen the management of athletes' agents. Football associations and professional clubs at all levels have reasonably formulated training compensation standards, focusing on the implementation of football training compensation and joint mechanism compensation policies, effectively ensuring that "those who cultivate will benefit", and stimulating the enthusiasm of all kinds of subjects to cultivate high-level football reserve talents. (The General Administration of Sports and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(22) Strengthen the construction and open use of football venues. Combined with the preparation and implementation of detailed planning of land space, the number of social football fields and campus football fields will be steadily increased, and the supporting facilities of football fields will be improved. By 2025, the governments of key football cities and reform pilot cities will take the lead in implementing the policy of opening football venues to young people free of charge or at low fees. Encourage all localities to build flexible and applicable non-standard football fields. (The General Administration of Sports, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(23) Strengthen youth football training and event safety management. Establish and improve mechanisms for protecting the physical and mental health of young players, and earnestly safeguard the rights and interests of youth in sports. Strengthen the risk management of safety production and sports injuries in youth football training and competitions inside and outside the school. Improve the comprehensive insurance mechanism for sports accident injuries to achieve full coverage of young people participating in football training and competitions. Improve the multi-party insurance investment mechanism for event organizers, participating units, training units, and athletes' families, and improve the mechanism for preventing and handling sports injury risks. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
8. Strengthen organization and implementation
(24) Strengthen organizational leadership. All localities should strengthen the overall coordination and guidance of the reform and development of youth football, include youth football work in the important agenda, formulate development plans, clarify development goals, and establish long-term coordination mechanisms. Strengthen supervision and inspection of the implementation of these Opinions, and implement a combination of supervision, supervision, training, competition, and supervision, to ensure the implementation of various policies. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(25) Clarify the division of responsibilities. The sports department takes the lead in the national youth football work and is responsible for the overall planning, macro guidance, overall coordination, supervision and supervision of the development of youth football; the education department fulfills the responsibility of being in charge of youth campus football, and is responsible for the overall planning, comprehensive management and promotion of campus football, and formulates and implements relevant policies for youth football seedlings to go on to higher education; the Chinese Football Association and its member associations give full play to the advantages of talents and resources to strengthen industry guidance and technical services for youth football. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(26) Increase funding input. Improve the funding mechanism. Establish a youth football funding mechanism with government guidance, market participation, social support, and diversified channels. Formulate a list of government procurement services, and innovate support methods for youth football work carried out by football associations at all levels through measures such as government procurement of services, and increase support. Administrative departments for education at all levels should strengthen policy safeguards, and schools with football characteristics should coordinate relevant funding channels such as school public funds in accordance with regulations, and support the development of football teaching, training, competitions and other activities. Actively explore the use of socialized and market-oriented operations, raise funds through multiple channels, and encourage and guide social forces to donate. Encourage qualified areas to set up football development foundations to broaden the sources of youth football funds. (The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Sports, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(27) Create a good atmosphere. Widely publicize the educational, health, motivational value and diversified educational functions of football, adhere to a positive propaganda policy, strengthen the guidance of public opinion, and strengthen news services. Make full use of all kinds of traditional and new media, give full play to the leading role of the central mainstream media, increase publicity and reporting of youth football events, television and online broadcasting, and actively demonstrate the effectiveness of youth football reform and development. Select advanced figures and typical practices of youth football, tell the story of youth football in the new era, promote a healthy and progressive football culture, and create a good atmosphere and public opinion environment for society, schools and families to care about and support the healthy development of youth football.
"Implementation Opinions on the Reform and Development of Chinese Youth Football" answers questions from reporters
A few days ago, 12 departments including the General Administration of Sports issued the "Implementation Opinions on the Reform and Development of Chinese Youth Football" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Opinions"), and the responsible comrades of the relevant departments and bureaus of the General Administration of Sports answered reporters' questions on relevant issues.
1. What is the background and purpose of the document?
A: Since the implementation of the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football", under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, the mainland has comprehensively promoted the reform and development of football, strengthened the popularization and promotion of campus football, built youth football training centers at all levels, held the China Youth Football League, and made positive progress in youth football. At the same time, it should also be noted that there is a lack of a unified blueprint for the development of youth football in the mainland, and the scale and quality of football professionals are small, and the growth path is blocked. The youth football training and competition system is not sound enough, there are shortcomings in policy guarantees, and the integration of sports and education in the field of youth football needs to be deepened and broken through, and it is urgent to accelerate the construction of a new system for the high-quality development of youth football. In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on football work, and fully implement the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football" and the "Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Sports and Education and Promoting the Healthy Development of Youth", in accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the General Administration of Sports took the lead in drafting the "Implementation Opinions on the Reform and Development of Chinese Youth Football" on the basis of in-depth research, which was jointly issued and implemented by 12 departments. The "Implementation Opinions" have made a top-level design and overall deployment for accelerating the high-quality development of youth football, and put forward four insistences: first, adhere to the people-centered approach and promote and popularize football for all young people; second, adhere to the integration of sports and education and cultivate all-round development of football talents; third, adhere to the combination of popularization and improvement, and form a scientific work system for the promotion and popularization of campus football and the strengthening and improvement of professional youth training; fourth, adhere to the combination of the national system and market mechanism, and mobilize all aspects of the development of youth football. The main goal of the "Implementation Opinions" is to accelerate the construction of a new system for the cultivation of football reserve talents with deep integration, popularization and improvement of sports and education, integrated design and integrated promotion, and promote the comprehensive and healthy development of youth football.
2. What are the key tasks and innovative measures of the Implementation Opinions?
Answer: The "Implementation Opinions" put forward six key tasks and policy measures: First, continue to strengthen the popularization of youth football, multi-departmental coordination and multi-measures at the same time, steadily expand the football population, and prosper youth football culture. The second is to innovate the training system for football reserve talents, accelerate the improvement of the "four-in-one" youth training development level of campuses, sports schools, occupations and society, and promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of youth football with the construction of key football cities and youth training pilots in the western region as the starting point. The third is to strengthen youth football training, comprehensively improve the quality of material selection, and strengthen "science and technology training" to accurately improve the training effect. Fourth, improve the youth football competition system, with the China Youth Football League as the backbone, expand and implement local competitions, strengthen diversified and comprehensive supervision, and continue to optimize the design of the competition system. Fifth, strengthen the training of football professionals, implement the "Millions of Talents Project", strengthen the training institutions of football professionals, and strengthen the construction of coaches and service management. Sixth, we will implement the youth football security policy, smooth the training channel for football reserve talents, improve the training compensation policy for young players, strengthen the facilities and open use of football venues, and improve youth football training and event safety management.
3. How to deepen the integration of sports and education in the field of youth football?
Answer: The "Implementation Opinions" make efforts to deepen integration, openness and collaboration, and give full play to the multiplier effect of integration. The "Implementation Opinions" clarify the division of responsibilities, and the sports department takes the lead in the national youth football work, responsible for overall planning, macro guidance, overall coordination, supervision and supervision, and focuses on improvement. The education department is responsible for the construction and development of campus football, focusing on popularization, and formulating and implementing policies for youth football seedlings to go on to higher education. The Chinese Football Association and its member associations give full play to the advantages of talents and resources, and strengthen industry guidance and technical services. In terms of the integration of training and competition, the "Implementation Opinions" clarified the establishment of a long-term mechanism for the integration of the youth training center and the "Mantianxing" training camp, the smooth connection of campus football events with the China Youth Football League, the joint release of the event calendar, and the integrated registration of athletes for the competition. At the same time, a joint force has been formed in the training of football professionals and the construction of the coach team, and the implementation of the "Implementation Opinions on the Establishment of Coach Positions in Schools" has been taken as an opportunity to set up full-time and part-time football coach positions and explore the establishment of a coach sharing mechanism.
4. How to give full play to the advantages of the national system to cultivate football reserve talents?
Answer: The "Implementation Opinions" clearly put forward the combination of the national system and the market mechanism, and mobilize all aspects of the development of youth football. In particular, mobilize government functional departments at all levels to increase investment in youth football, based on improving the scale and quality of campus football after-school training, taking the construction of a strong sports school football team as the starting point, and insisting on the integration of sports and education to cultivate a systematic football reserve talent team. Through the complementary sharing of high-quality educational resources, relying on the pilot construction of a number of football youth training centers in sports schools, we will give full play to the role of sports schools at all levels as the main position for the cultivation of sports reserve talents, continue to expand the scale of primary football training in children's sports schools, and select and breed more outstanding football seedlings on the basis of cultivating interest and enhancing physical fitness.
5. How to strengthen policy guarantees and solve the problem of "retirement at the age of 12"?
Answer: The "Implementation Opinions" strengthens policy guarantees from multiple dimensions, emphasizing the provision of all-round, whole-process, and warm policy guarantees for the advancement and professional development of football talents. It is required to focus on different stages of training and development, provide high-quality training competitions and cultural learning services for young people, smooth the channel for football reserve talents to go on to higher education, pilot first, and promote while summarizing, so as to gradually solve the above problems. The "Implementation Opinions" clearly put forward that the pilot areas should explore the movement of primary and junior high school students with the school team when they go to school. In some areas, middle schools will set up special football classes on a pilot basis, and pilot schools will be allowed to recruit outstanding football reserve talents in the province. High school and college students who have entered the echelon and first team of professional clubs can retain their student status. Orderly expand the enrollment scale of high-level football sports teams in colleges and universities, especially "double first-class" universities, and establish a "one-stop" system of connecting primary schools, junior high schools, high schools, and universities. At the same time, the "Implementation Opinions" proposed to accelerate the construction of college football colleges. The major of football is set up and included in the undergraduate (junior college) catalog of colleges and universities. Based on social needs, we will steadily increase enrollment indicators and vigorously cultivate football professionals. This paper demonstrates the "3+4" training mechanism between sports schools and ordinary undergraduates. Through the combination of the above policies, we will form a joint force to broaden and smooth the growth channel of football talents, build a strong youth training system, make up for the shortcomings of the youth training chain, prosper the diversified formats of youth training, establish a youth training brand demonstration, continue to deepen the integration of sports and education, improve the quality of talent training, effectively solve the concerns and worries of parents and students, and gradually get out of the dilemma of the "cliff-like" decline of junior high school football reserve talents.
6. How to promote the implementation of the "Implementation Opinions" in the next step?
Answer: The "Implementation Opinions" were jointly issued and implemented by 12 departments, emphasizing the long-term efforts to make efforts to implement the work, highlighting the guidance of work deployment and the pertinence of policy measures, which is not only a task list to clarify the focus of work, but also an operation manual to guide the comprehensive promotion of youth football. In the next step, the General Administration of Sports will work with relevant departments and localities to establish a youth football funding mechanism with government guidance, social support and diversified channels in accordance with the division of responsibilities specified in the "Implementation Opinions". Improve the youth football governance system, continue to promote the downward shift of the center of gravity, and mobilize local sports departments to assume the main responsibility. Through measures such as government procurement of services, we will innovate ways to support youth football work of football associations at all levels, increase support, and build strong local football associations. Focus on the implementation of documents and policy implementation, improve the assessment and evaluation mechanism, strengthen supervision and implementation, implement the combination of supervision, supervision, supervision, training, and competition, actively create a good environment for the development of youth football, and promote the healthy development of youth football.
Source | Website of the General Administration of Sport of China