The “15th Five-Year Plan” for building a strong sports nation was released: the scale of the industry will exceed 7 trillion yuan by 2030
The Zhitong Finance App learned that recently, with the approval of the State Council, the State Administration of Sports officially released the “15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Strong Sports Nation” (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”). Recently, the head of the Policy and Regulation Department of the State Administration of Sports explained issues such as the formulation and implementation of the “Plan”. Among them, it is mentioned that the “Plan” comprehensively lays out the high-quality development of sports during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period and sets five main targets. By 2030, the per capita stadium area will reach about 4 square meters, the proportion of people regularly participating in physical exercise will reach about 40%, and the national fitness rate will reach 31.1%. The number of world champions is at the top, and the total size of the sports industry exceeds 7 trillion dollars. The “Plan” makes separate arrangements for each field of building a strong sports nation.
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Anchoring 2030 goals and drawing up a blueprint for the development of sports in the “15th Five-Year Plan”
——The head of the Policy and Regulation Department of the State Administration of Sports explains the “15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Strong Sports Nation”
Recently, with the approval of the State Council, the State Administration of Sports officially issued the “Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for Building a Strong Sports Nation” (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”). Recently, the head of the Policy and Regulation Department of the State Administration of Sports explained issues such as the formulation and implementation of the “Plan”.
Q: Please tell us about the background of the publication of the “Plan”.
Answer: The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to sports work. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed “promoting the development of mass sports and competitive sports in an integrated manner and speeding up the construction of a strong sports nation”, pointing out the direction for doing a good job in sports work during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, the various tasks set out in the “14th Five-Year Plan” were successfully completed. China ranked among the world's major sports powers and Olympic powers. The development and progress of sports became a microcosm of the achievements of the Chinese modernization drive, making positive contributions to advancing the construction of a strong nation and national rejuvenation. The “15th Five-Year Plan” period is a critical period for basic socialist modernization, consolidating the foundation and full strength. It is also an important stage in the overall acceleration and comprehensive improvement of the quality of the construction of a strong sports nation. The development of the sports industry faces both rare opportunities and serious challenges. From an international perspective, the international situation has become chaotic and intertwined, 100 years of change have accelerated, global turmoil and uncertainty have increased, and geopolitical conflicts and ideological differences have penetrated into the field of sports. Changes in the international Olympic Games have accelerated, competition between the Los Angeles Olympics and the Alps Winter Olympics has become more intense, and the difficulty and uncertainty of preparations has increased significantly. From a domestic perspective, the Party and state have elevated sports to an unprecedented important position, given sports the responsibility and historical mission of the times to show greater achievements in the all-round construction of a modern socialist country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and provided a strong political guarantee for the development of the sports industry. China's comprehensive national strength continues to improve, providing a solid material guarantee and a favorable social environment for the development of sports. The public's awareness of fitness has increased markedly, and the demand for multi-level and diversified sports has become more urgent, providing new opportunities for sports development. This is the first time that a sports field plan has been included in the catalogue list compiled by a national special plan, which fully demonstrates the importance that the Party Central Committee and the State Council attach to sports work. During the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, it is necessary to anchor the goal of building a strong sports nation by 2035, thoroughly implement the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, and put into practice the various tasks of building a strong sports nation.
Q: Please introduce the process and main ideas of the “Plan”.
Answer: The General Administration of Sports attaches great importance to planning and has set up a leading group for the preparation of the “Plan”, fully mobilized all relevant forces and fully invested in the preparation of the “Plan”. It mainly carried out the following tasks. The first is thematic research. Experts and scholars from many universities were organized to conduct research on 17 major issues around a series of major difficulties and blockages in the construction of a strong sports nation during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, which provided strong support for the preparation of the “Plan”. The second is in-depth research. They went to various parts of the country to conduct in-depth research, comprehensively understand the frontline development of sports, listen to opinions and suggestions from local sports administration departments and relevant experts and scholars, and publicly solicit opinions from the public on the official website of the State Administration of Sports. The third is to solicit opinions. After the draft text of the “Plan” was drafted, numerous exchanges and discussions were held, and comments were solicited from the national sports system twice. At the same time, it was also organized to solicit comments from relevant ministries and departments of the country. Fourth, revise and improve. Research is carried out one by one according to the consultation process, and opinions and suggestions from various parties are fully absorbed. At the same time, the content and framework of the planning text were revised and improved in accordance with the principles of focusing on key points, refinement and pragmatism. The fifth is to submit for approval and publication. After completing the relevant preparation procedures, the “Plan” is submitted to the State Council for approval. On June 29, the State Council approved the issuance of the “Plan” by the State Administration of Sports.
The main idea behind drafting the “Plan” is to adhere to Xi Jinping's ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress and the 20th Plenary Session of the CPC, earnestly implement the arrangements of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Central Committee, comprehensively implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important remarks and instructions on sports, and scientifically formulate sports development plans for the next five years in accordance with the requirements of the “Outline of the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China” and the “Outline for Building a Strong Sports Nation”. Adhere to inclusive sharing, fairness and accessibility, prioritize meeting the health needs of the masses and promote the all-round development of people as the starting point and foothold of sports work, and continuously enhance the ease and accessibility of sports integration into people's lives. Implement the requirements for further comprehensive and deepening reforms, adhere to reform and innovation, diversified co-construction, adhere to the combination of a promising government, an effective market, and an organic society, and construct a new pattern of participation of diverse actors in sports development under the leadership of the government. Adhere to integrated development and service the overall situation, give full play to the comprehensive value and diverse functions of sports, promote the deep integration of sports with culture, tourism, health, education, etc., and better serve the overall development of the country. Adhere to balance and fully adhere to the bottom line, implement high-quality development requirements, achieve high-quality sports development and a high level of safe and healthy interaction, and prevent and mitigate all kinds of risks in the sports field. Adhere to the systematic concept, focus on key points, promote the comprehensive development of all fields, projects, and regions of sports in an integrated manner, and continue to step up efforts to focus on the difficulties and blockages in building a strong sports nation.
Q: Please explain the basic framework of the “Plan” and how it is linked to the national plan.
A: Referring to the national planning model, the “Plan” consists of 11 parts and is divided into three major sections.
The first section is an overview. This is the first part of the “Plan”, which mainly puts forward the guiding ideas for building a strong sports nation during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, and clarifies the overall goals and development indicators in major fields of building a strong sports nation during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period.
The second section focuses on tasks. That is, parts 2 to 10 of the “Plan” deploy strategic tasks and major initiatives for the “15th Five-Year Plan” period by field, clarifying development ideas and key tasks in national fitness, competitive sports, youth sports, the “three major goals”, sports industry, sports culture, sports exchanges, and physical education, science and technology, talent, rule of law, anti-doping, lottery, and safety.
The third section is safeguard measures. In other words, Part 11 of the “Plan” improves the plan implementation guarantee mechanism in terms of strengthening organizational leadership and strengthening the implementation of the plan.
The “Plan” proposes eight column projects, focusing on the construction of mass stadium facilities, sports program layout, training base upgrading, training reserve personnel training for key projects, upgrading the outdoor sports industry, sports science and technology innovation, sports talent training, and anti-doping.
The main aspects of the interface between the “Plan” and the national plan are as follows:
The first is about speeding up the construction of a new development pattern. The “Plan” implements the requirements of the “Outline” of the national “15th Five-Year Plan” to build a strong domestic market and vigorously boost consumption, and makes arrangements in improving the sports industry system, developing the competition economy, building high-quality outdoor sports destinations, expanding the snow and ice economy, and optimizing the sports industry and consumption environment, so as to promote the high-quality development of the sports industry and stimulate the vitality of sports consumption.
The second is about safeguarding and improving people's livelihood. The “Plan” implements the requirements of the “Outline” of the national “15th Five-Year Plan” to actively develop mass sports and strengthen the popularization of youth fitness, etc., and makes arrangements in improving the national fitness public service system, strengthening the construction of national fitness facilities, enriching mass and youth sports events, deepening the integration of physical education, etc., to enhance the convenience and accessibility of sports integration into people's lives and better meet people's sports needs.
The third is about building a healthy China. The “Plan” implements the requirements of the “Outline” of the national “15th Five-Year Plan” to accelerate the construction of a healthy China and promote the construction of stadium facilities, etc., and makes arrangements in implementing “small but beautiful” site facilities construction projects around the masses, carrying out non-medical sports health intervention services for key population groups, deepening the integration of sports and health, strengthening scientific fitness guidance, etc., to promote the deep integration of sports and national health, and explore new models of sports to promote health.
Fourth, it is about the prosperity and development of socialist culture. The “Plan” implements the requirements of the “Outline” of the national “15th Five-Year Plan” for building spiritual civilization, promoting cultural creation and production, and enhancing the influence of Chinese civilization, etc., and makes arrangements to expand and strengthen the “Ode to Chinese Sportsmanship” cultural brand, enrich sports and cultural products and platforms, strengthen the cultivation of field civilization, and promote traditional Chinese sports to go global, to promote Chinese sportsmanship and promote the prosperity of sports culture.
The fifth is about integrated development and security. The “Plan” implements the requirements of the “Outline” of the national “15th Five-Year Plan” on strengthening bottom-line thinking, effectively preventing and mitigating various risks, and enhancing economic and social resilience, and makes arrangements in terms of raising the level of the rule of law, promoting the fight against anti-doping, paying close attention to sports industry style, strengthening sports safety and security, etc., to continuously improve the level of modernization of the sports sector's governance system and governance capacity.
The sixth is about promoting coordinated regional development. The “Plan” implements the requirements of the “Outline” of the national “15th Five-Year Plan” to enhance regional development coordination and promote joint regional development, and makes arrangements to promote the integration of sports into coordinated regional development strategies, coordinate the integrated construction of urban and rural sports infrastructure, and encourage joint hosting of sporting events across regions, so as to give better play to the role of sports in serving the country.
Q: Please explain how the “Plan” lays out to promote work in key areas of sports.
Answer: The “Plan” comprehensively lays out the high-quality development of sports during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period and sets five main indicators. By 2030, the per capita stadium area will reach about 4 square meters, the proportion of people regularly participating in physical exercise will reach about 40%, and the national fitness rate will reach 31.1%. The number of people who have won world championships is at the top, and the total size of the sports industry exceeds 7 trillion dollars. The “Plan” makes separate arrangements for each field of building a strong sports nation.
The first is to improve the national fitness public service system to help improve people's health standards and quality of life. The “Plan” proposes to comprehensively raise the level of national fitness public services, coordinate the integrated construction of urban and rural sports infrastructure, and promote the construction and transformation of field facilities suitable for aging, adapting, and barrier-free facilities. Strengthen the construction of national fitness facilities. Implement plans to expand space for mass sports, and encourage places that are in a position to do so to explore the “Golden Horn and Silver Edge”. Promote the deep integration of national fitness and national health, and deepen the integration of sports health. Enrich mass competition activities. Improve the national fitness organization system. Strengthen scientific fitness guidance. Implement a “small but beautiful” site facility construction project around the public.
The second is to reform and improve the competitive sports management system and operation mechanism to enhance comprehensive strength and the ability to win glory for the country. The “Plan” proposes improving the new national system of competitive sports, unblocking channels for social forces to participate in competitive sports, and making better use of the important role of the market mechanism in the development of competitive sports. Promote the transformation of competitive sports in China to a comprehensive development strategy focusing on the “633” project. Improve scientific material selection and training standards. Establish a modern competitive sports event system. Build a national team that can fight well and have an excellent style of work, and do a solid job of preparing for international comprehensive games such as the Olympics and Asian Games. Implement the “selection and fairness” requirement and improve the selection mechanism for national team athletes and coaches. Accelerate the development of professional sports. Implement sports program layout optimization projects and training base upgrading projects.
The third is to strengthen youth sports work, and promote the promotion of young people's physical and mental health and the training of reserve talents for competitive sports in an integrated manner. The “Plan” proposes deepening the integration of physical education and exploring the establishment of a “primary school-middle school-high school” training system for soccer, basketball, and volleyball reserve talents. Improve the physical and mental health of young people, focus on key issues such as myopia, obesity, scoliosis, and mental health among young people, and carry out high-quality sports pilot projects to promote the physical and mental health of young people. Improve the youth competition system. Strengthen the training of reserve talents for competitive sports, and give full play to the role of sports schools as the main channel in the training of reserve talents in competitive sports. Implement a comprehensive upgrading project for reserve personnel for key projects.
Fourth, consolidate the development foundation of the “three major goals” and promote the revitalization and development of the “three major goals”. The “Plan” proposes to continue to deepen soccer governance reforms, vigorously develop youth soccer, continue to promote the popularization of soccer in schools, and steadily advance the construction of key cities for soccer development across the country and pilot construction of a soccer youth training system integrating sports education in the western region. Actively promote basketball reform and development, improve the basketball management system and working mechanism, and lay out and carry out comprehensive basketball reform pilot projects. Implement an overseas training project for outstanding basketball talents, a study abroad program for high-level basketball coaches, and a plan to improve the level of referees. Consolidate the foundation for the development of volleyball, strengthen the promotion and popularization of volleyball sports schools, and promote pilot volleyball reform projects in some key cities. Improve the “big national team” model.
Fifth, speed up the upgrading, expansion and upgrading of the sports industry, and strongly serve the overall economic and social development situation. The “Plan” proposes to improve the modern sports industry system and promote the high-quality development of the fitness and leisure industry, competition performance industry, and sporting goods manufacturing industry. Promote the integrated development of business tourism, culture, sports and health. Vigorously develop the tournament economy and give full play to the driving role of city leagues and village tournaments. Deepen pilot work to promote sports consumption and the competition economy. Raise the level of development of outdoor sports, and consolidate and expand the achievements of “driving 300 million people to participate in snow and ice sports”. Optimize the sports industry and consumption environment, cultivate new sports formats, new scenarios, and models, and activate the “silver hair economy” and “parent-child economy”. Implement an outdoor sports industry upgrade project.
The sixth is to vigorously promote Chinese sportsmanship and promote the prosperity of sports culture. The “Plan” proposes inheriting and promoting Chinese sportsmanship, expanding and strengthening the “Ode to Chinese Sportsmanship” cultural brand, resolutely resisting the erosion of vulgar and vulgar ideas, and cultivating a healthy project culture. Enrich sports and cultural products and platforms, and continue to promote the collection, conservation, research and use of sports cultural relics, archives, oral materials, etc. Encourage the innovative development of digital sports collections, sports cultural and creative products, and sports film and animation works. Strengthen the cultivation of field civilization, formulate and introduce a code of civilized conduct on the field, and strengthen the rectification of chaos in the sports “food circle”. Improve public opinion guidance mechanisms and public opinion response mechanisms for all sports.
The seventh is to deepen exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in the field of sports, and serve to build a community of human destiny. The “Plan” proposes to promote sports as a regular topic in the foreign affairs of the head of state and serve the country's overall foreign affairs. Strengthen sports exchanges with foreign countries and enhance the right to speak out in international sports. Continue to deepen strategic partnerships with important organizations such as the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Council of Asia. Promote traditional Chinese sports such as martial arts, dragon boat, Go, fitness qigong, and dragon and lion dance to the market. Strengthen sports exchanges and cooperation with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, consolidate the achievements of the 15th National Games jointly hosted by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Sports Bay Area. Consolidate and improve cross-strait exchange mechanisms and enrich cross-strait exchange activities.
Eighth is to enhance the ability to support sports development and strengthen guarantees for the construction of a strong sports nation. The “Plan” proposes to improve the quality and level of physical education, promote the innovation and development of higher sports colleges (departments), and accelerate the construction of world-class universities and disciplines with Chinese characteristics. Promote self-reliance and self-improvement in high-level sports science and technology, strengthen the transformation of sports science and technology achievements, and accelerate the construction of digital sports. Strengthen the construction of a team of highly qualified and specialized sports talents, implement a more open sports talent introduction policy, and improve the evaluation system for sports professionals. Promote the coordinated development of regional sports. Give better play to the role of sports in serving coordinated regional development strategies, major regional strategies, and revitalization of special types of regions. Implement sports science and technology innovation projects and sports talent training system construction projects.
The ninth is to coordinate development and safety to raise the level of safety management in the sports industry. The “Plan” proposes to raise the level of the legal system. Promote revisions to administrative regulations such as the “National Fitness Regulations” and “Anti-Doping Regulations”, improve local sports enforcement mechanisms, and improve sports arbitration dispute resolution systems. Resolutely push forward the fight against doping. Improve sports lottery governance capabilities. Pay close attention to the style of work in the sports industry, and seriously rectify industry chaos such as falsification, game manipulation, and stadium violence in the sports field. Strengthen sports safety and security, strictly implement the “three controls and three must” requirements, and earnestly carry out the safety management responsibilities of the sports industry. Implement a “clean anti-doping ecosystem” construction project.
Q: Please explain what arrangements are in place to implement the Plan.
A: The “Plan” is an important document to guide the construction of a strong sports nation during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period. In order to ensure the implementation of the Plan, the focus is on arranging and deploying from the following aspects.
The first is to strengthen planning and publicity. Through various forms of publicity and interpretation, the “Plan” is thoroughly interpreted, the main goals, key tasks and reform initiatives of the “15th Five-Year Plan” sports nation building is thoroughly interpreted, the ideological understanding of the national sports front is unified, cohesion is enhanced, and a favorable development atmosphere is created for the implementation of the “Plan”.
The second is to clarify the division of responsibilities. The State Administration of Sports will do a good job of overall coordination and strengthen coordination between ministries and departments. Compile the responsibilities of local people's governments at all levels, departments of the State Administration of Sports, relevant units directly under their supervision, and relevant national sports social organizations, and promote the implementation of the Plan in an integrated manner. Promote the effective link between the implementation of the plan and the annual work plan, strengthen the support of sports related plans for the “Plan”, and ensure the coordination of various sports plans and annual plans.
The third is to strengthen planning and evaluation. Strengthen dynamic monitoring, mid-term evaluation and summary evaluation of the implementation of the “Plan”, speed up the implementation process of the “Plan” tasks according to the implementation evaluation status and actual work of the “Plan”, and improve the effectiveness of the implementation of the “Plan”. Improve the dynamic adjustment mechanism for implementing the “Plan”, and promptly request instructions and reports on important matters from the Party Central Committee and the State Council in accordance with the procedures.
This article was edited by the General Administration of Sports, Zhitong Finance Editor: Chen Wenfang.