Beijing, 27 Oct (Xinhua) -- The "14th Five-Year Plan for The Sports Development Plan" was officially released a few days ago, with a total of more than 30,000 words. What are the important contents of this important document that led the development of sports during the 14th Five-Year Plan period? What are the highlights? In order to facilitate readers to understand the overall situation, the reporter made a preliminary sorting out of some of the key points and highlights of the document.
Two big goals
The "14th Five-Year Plan for Sports Development" points out the long-term goals for the construction of a sports power in 2035 and the main goals of sports development in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and points out the direction of development. The long-term goal of building a sports power in 2035 will be implemented step by step. That is, "through the efforts of the next 5 years, all fields, projects and regions will achieve greater development and achieve important results, the foundation of sports development will be more solid, and the four beams and eight pillars of a sports power will basically take shape." By 2030, the overall development quality and efficiency of sports will be significantly improved, forming a new pattern of sports development in which the government is leading strongly, the society is full of vitality, the market is standardized and orderly, the people actively participate, and it is compatible with the basic realization of socialist modernization. By 2035, we will build a socialist modern sports power, the institutional vitality of sports, the affinity of the public, international competitiveness, economic contribution, cultural soft power, and world influence will be fully demonstrated, the sports governance system and governance capabilities will be modernized, and sports will become a landmark cause for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. ”
On August 8, citizens practiced tai chi at the Municipal Park of Bozhou City, Anhui Province. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Liu Qinli)
The main goals of sports development in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period are divided into 8 aspects. They are: the fitness level of the whole people has reached a new height, the strength of competitive sports has reached a new level, the development of youth sports has entered a new stage, the development of the sports industry has formed new achievements, new progress has been made in the construction of sports culture, new contributions have been made to foreign exchanges in sports, the work of sports science and education has reached a new level, and the level of sports rule of law has been newly improved.
Among them, in terms of national fitness, the per capita sports area will increase from 2.2 square meters at the end of 2020 to 2.6 square meters, and the proportion of people who regularly participate in physical exercise will increase from 37.2% at the end of 2020 to 38.5%. In terms of the sports industry, the goal is to reach a total scale of 5 trillion yuan, the added value to account for 2% of the gdp, the total scale of residents' sports consumption exceeds 2.8 trillion yuan, and the number of employees exceeds 8 million.
The sports level rating project will break the boundaries between "amateur and professional"
The "14th Five-Year Plan" Sports Development Plan puts the implementation of the national strategy of national fitness and the promotion of the construction of a healthy China in a prominent position, including the construction of a higher level of national fitness public service system, the extensive development of national fitness activities and other 6 aspects of the content and 5 special projects.
Among them, the sports level rating project is a major highlight. The document proposes, "On the basis of the current policy framework for the evaluation of athletes' technical levels, we should open up the boundaries between amateur and professional, and establish and improve a unified and standardized sports level rating policy system for all citizens in accordance with the principles of scientific and reasonable, convenient and beneficial to the people." Establish a sports level title system and a grade standard system. The content of this project also includes: "Relax the authority to grant sports level titles, clarify the functions of sports level rating business guidance, facilitation services and supervision during and after the event for individual sports associations at all levels, and supervise individual sports associations at all levels to strengthen industry self-discipline."
On November 29, 2020, men's champion Li Zicheng sprinted towards the finish line in the race. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shen Bohan
In the promotion and popularization project of sports projects, we will "give full play to the main role of national single sports associations, actively explore the promotion mode of different sports projects, focus on football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, tennis, athletics, swimming, gymnastics, martial arts, fitness qigong, Go, ice and snow and other sports that are popular with the masses, continuously expand the number of project participants, and strive to have a number of project participants exceed 100 million".
Support colleges and universities to form high-level sports teams
In the "14th Five-Year Plan for Sports Development", the position of "adhering to the combination of the national system and market mechanism to build a new model for the development of competitive sports" is placed after the section on national fitness, and the content is very detailed.
The content on the development of competitive sports covers 7 aspects, such as innovating the competitive sports system and mechanism, optimizing the layout of competitive sports development, establishing a scientific and effective training system, building a competition system with Chinese characteristics, innovating the management system of the national team, supporting colleges and universities to form high-level sports teams, and building a national team with a good fighting style, etc. In addition, it also mentions four columns, such as the strong foundation of competitive sports, the collective ball project promotion project, the "three balls" revitalization project, and the professional sports development project.
On June 20, tsinghua university players celebrated winning the 23rd China Collegiate Basketball League (CUBA) First Division (Men's Division) Finals after the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Bo
In the chapter of innovating the management system of the national team, it is proposed to "adhere to the combination of the state office and the social office, actively explore a new model of jointly building the national team with local, college and club social forces, and introduce a national team competition mechanism." In the chapter "Supporting Colleges and Universities to Form High-Level Sports Teams", it is more specific. The content includes: "Resolutely implement the spirit of the central government's policy on deepening the integration of sports and education, jointly with the education department to focus on collective ball sports such as athletics, swimming basic events and 'three major balls', establish an institutional mechanism for the formation of national teams and provincial teams and the construction of high-level sports teams in colleges and universities, and give strong support in the training, competition and guarantee of high-level sports teams." Give qualified high-level sports teams of colleges and universities a certain number of national training teams, and incorporate them into the national team structure and the Olympic and Asian Games World Cup and other major events such as the World Cup, integrated, normalized and equal management. ”
The "three balls" have become the focus of competitive sports development
In the competitive sports section of the "14th Five-Year Plan for Sports Development", the three major balls are the top priority. In the column of the collective ball project promotion project, it is pointed out that it is necessary to "comprehensively promote the popularization and improvement of the 'three major balls' and handball, hockey, baseball, softball, rugby, water polo, ice hockey and other collective ball projects, and strengthen the layout and support for collective ball projects." In addition, the column "Three Balls" Revitalization Project is used to depict the development plan of football, basketball and volleyball projects.
The "14th Five-Year Plan for Sports Development" points out that it is necessary to establish a scientific, standardized, orderly and effective "three balls" governance system, improve the "three balls" technical standards for the whole society, different age groups and different levels, improve the "three balls" system norms, establish a "three balls" supervision mechanism, and strengthen the self-discipline and style construction of the "three balls" industry.
National football players in training on August 18. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Zhe
Among them, the specific goals of football in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period are: the men's national team strives to reach the first-class level in Asia, and the women's national team strives to reach the leading level in Asia. The document proposes to vigorously cultivate amateur football clubs and campus football clubs, rely on the community to cultivate membership-based football clubs and other youth training institutions, and achieve more than 50,000 football clubs (including campus teams) registered with the Football Associations of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country. Establish a professional league management body to standardize the operation of professional clubs and the development of professional leagues. In addition, there are also "promote the reform of professional club equity diversification, improve the governance structure of club legal persons", "establish a sports and education integration registration system, to achieve 1.5 million registered players", "increase the training of football professionals, and achieve 120,000 people holding D level and above coach certificates, and 150,000 people holding level 3 and above referee certificates".
The goal of Chinese basketball in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period in terms of competitive performance is to "strive to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and narrow the gap with the world's strong teams; the five-man women's national team maintains its leading position in Asia and qualifies for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games; the three-man men's national team and the three-person women's national team qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and strive to achieve good results." ”
On July 28, the members of the Chinese team took a group photo at the award ceremony. On the same day, in the three-person basketball women's bronze medal competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese team defeated the French team to win the bronze medal. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lan Hongguang
China Basketball will also "fully implement the "Medium- and Long-term Plan for the Cultivation of Basketball Youth Reserve Talents", improve the construction of professional club echelons, encourage professional clubs to build and share with local universities and middle schools, sports schools and other social training institutions, strengthen the construction of a national basketball high-level reserve talent base", "establish an integrated youth basketball development mechanism for schools, sports schools and clubs, promote the comprehensive development of the scale and quality of small basketball leagues and fourth-level campus events, and the number of participants in small basketball events is not less than 10 million." Accelerate the construction of digital platforms and help the selection and training of basketball talents. ”
At the Tokyo Olympics, the defending champion Chinese women's volleyball team was out. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the goal of Chinese volleyball is to "maintain the leading position in Asia and the world's advanced level for the women's national team, and the men's national team strives to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and narrow the gap with the world's strongest teams".
On July 21, Zhu Ting, a member of the Chinese women's volleyball team, was in training. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Ting
In terms of further broadening the channels for the training of reserve talents, Chinese volleyball will "gradually form a multi-channel joint training model of volleyball traditional characteristic schools, sports schools, social clubs, and provincial, regional and municipal youth teams." Implement the construction project of top-notch talents in youth volleyball, and gradually establish a composite youth training system in which sports schools, schools, and society complement and integrate with each other. The number of high-level reserve talent bases for volleyball in the country has increased to 80, and the number of registered young volleyball players has reached 20,000."
Sports-education integration emphasizes cooperation
In the "14th Five-Year Plan" Sports Development Plan on "strengthening the integration of sports and education and promoting the healthy development of youth sports", cooperation is a key point that has been mentioned many times. In terms of strengthening the cultivation of outstanding talents in youth sports, we will strengthen cooperation with the education department, based on schools with traditional sports characteristics, focus on collective ball sports such as athletics, swimming basic majors and "three major balls", make full use of spare time and holidays to organize professional training, and select coaches and team leaders and other relevant personnel to carry out centralized professional training and daily management.
Students train in soccer at Yuhua West Road Primary School in Qiaoxi District, Shijiazhuang City, on September 29. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Zhang Xiaofeng)
In terms of improving the youth sports competition activity system, we will cooperate with the education department to jointly organize and organize the National Student (Youth) Games, expand the scale of events, and improve the quality of events. The joint education department integrates school competitions, U-series competitions and other sports events at all levels, establishes a system of national, provincial (district, city), city and county youth sports events in different school segments (primary schools, junior high schools, high schools, universities), and cross-regional national, provincial (district, city), city and county levels, and uses after-school, weekend and holiday time to organize intramural, inter-school, cross-regional and national competitions.
In terms of strengthening the construction of the backbone team of youth sports, the joint education department will vigorously train physical education teachers and coaches, and smooth the channels for outstanding retired athletes and coaches to enter schools to engage in physical education teaching and training. Promote the establishment of coaching posts in large, medium, and small schools, improve the supporting system and system, and select outstanding physical education teachers and coaches to participate in relevant skills training.
On November 27, 2020, Xu Bo (second from left), a physical education teacher at Jade Road Primary School in Shahe City, Hebei Province, instructed students to practice basketball. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu
Accelerate the establishment of a national sports arbitration institution
In the "14th Five-Year Plan" Sports Development Plan, the content related to improving the socialist sports legal normative system with Chinese characteristics and improving the level of governing the body according to law is also very substantial. The document points out that it is necessary to improve the sports law and normative system and actively cooperate with the National People's Congress to complete the revision of the Sports Law. Improve the system of systems and norms for all sports fields such as national fitness, competitive sports, youth sports, sports industry, sports culture, sports foreign exchanges, and anti-doping.
In recent years, controversial incidents in the field of sports, such as wage arrears, have occurred from time to time. The "14th Five-Year Plan" Sports Development Plan proposes to improve the sports dispute resolution and legal service mechanism, and strengthen the administrative reconsideration, administrative response to lawsuits and petitioning work of sports departments at all levels. Complete sports dispute resolution mechanisms such as conciliation, mediation, and arbitration. Improve dispute resolution mechanisms within sports associations such as appeals and internal dispute resolution. Accelerate the establishment of a national sports arbitration institution, improve rules and procedures, guide the effective connection between the internal dispute resolution mechanism of individual sports associations and sports arbitration, and actively participate in international sports arbitration affairs.
Editors: Liu Yang, Yu Sihui, Wu Junkuan