AHEAD OF THE GAME
China launches drive to develop sports and improve people’s health By Wang Hairong
At Beijing Sport University, there is a well-shaded path called Champion Road. It is a walk of fame honoring Olympic champions who have graduated from this top sport academy in China, with their footprints and signatures imprinted along the way. Near the road stands a statue of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, who placed great importance on sports, and a sculpture of Pierre de Coubertin, the French educator who played a central role in restoring the Olympic Games in 1896.
Champion Road epitomizes the country’s glories and dreams in sports development. The first name on it is Xu Haifeng, the shooter who won the first Olympic gold for China at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Recently, recalling his first gold and sports development in China, Xu told the media, “Since its founding in 1949, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has constantly developed and changed. It is reaching the forefront of the world in many fields, including sports.”
“Now, China is growing from a big sports country to a strong one, which needs to meet higher standards. It means not only the development of competitive sports, but also the overall development of mass sports, the sports industry and sports culture,” Xu said.
In August, the State Council released the Outline for Building a Leading Sports Nation, which set the goal to develop China into a strong sports country by the year 2050.
前文给出了旋转、平移参数已知情况下的高度弧分段、逐级搜寻目标空间位置的方法,但在实际工程中,许多情况下这些参数是不可知的,本节采用粒子群优化算法,结合前文所述重建方法,利用少数匹配点估计出一个模糊的旋转、平移参数,并在此基础上实现更多点三维特征的重建。
为使课堂教学生活化，应创设与当前学习主题相关的、真实的、学生熟悉的生活情境，引导学生进入书本的学习环境。恰当的教学情境必然源于现实生活，符合学生实际，是学生所关心的或有能力关注的现实问题；能让学生在课堂中走向生活，把认知过程与生活体验融合起来。
Faster, higher and stronger
Over the past seven decades, China has made remarkable progress in sports, especially in competitive sports. As of the end of 2018, Chinese athletes had won 3,458 gold medals in international sports competitions such as World Cups and World Championships and 237 gold medals in Olympic Games, and broken 1,332 world records in various international competitions, according to the General Administration of Sport of China (GASC).
While continuing the whole-nation system, the government has also promoted the development of professional sports. The outline stated that the government supports coaches and athletes in developing professionally and forming professional associations.
Children play football in Sanyi School, Fuyang City of Anhui Province in east China, on September 10
多媒体将多种感官的信息作用于学生，打破了单调呈现板书的传统模式，使学生能够边看，边听，边说，边记，更好理解和掌握所学知识点。
The country adopted a whole-nation system to develop competitive sports. Under the system, talented children are selected and enter sport schools at a young age, where they are trained, with the qualified ones recruited into provincial and then national teams, and then selected to compete internationally. All expenses are covered by the government.
The system has turned out to be effective, with many Chinese athletes making remarkable achievements. From 1949 to the end of the 1950s, 39 Chinese athletes smashed world records, and in 1959, table tennis player Rong Guotuan won the first world championship for China in the World Table Tennis Championships.
Nowadays, China not only participates in international sport games, but also hosts them. The country’s long-cherished dream to host the Olympic Games was fulfilled in 2008, and recently, Wuhan in central China hosted the Seventh CISM Military World Games, where militaries from around the world flexed their muscles on the sports field rather than the battlefield. Moreover, Beijing and nearby Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province are gearing up to host the 2022 Olympic Winter Games.
Xu Haifeng receives the first Olympic gold medal for himself and China on July 29, 1984, at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles
Recalling his Olympic gold medal, Xu said, “After I played the last shot, the audience erupted.” The momentous victory was documented in a video, in which the announcer says during the medal ceremony, “I want you to know that you are participating in something that is more historic than you may have ever imagined, because the gold and silver medals will be awarded to a country that has never won a medal in Olympic competition in our history.”
Since then, China has kept winning Olympic golds. From 15 gold medals in Los Angles in 1984 to 16 in Barcelona (1992) and 51 in Beijing (2008)…, Chinese athletes have won gold medals at every Olympic Games since, and in more events. Many legendary figures have emerged, including Chinese table tennis teams, diving teams and the Chinese women’s volleyball team, which won five gold medals in two World Cups, two World Championships and an Olympic Games from 1981-86, and won the gold again at this year’s World Cup in September.
Before 1949, China had never won a medal in any world sports competition. Liu Changchun was the first Chinese athlete to participate in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932 and was the only athlete from China that year. In 1936, China sent 69 athletes to compete in the Berlin Olympic Summer Games, and except for a pole vaulter, no other Chinese athlete made it to the semifinals. As the delegation passed through Singapore on the return journey, a local paper published a cartoon satirizing China as the “sick man of East Asia.”
China is promoting public fitness. After the Beijing Olympic Summer Games in 2008, the day the games started, August 8, was designated National Fitness Day. In addition, fitness for all is one of the measures under the Healthy China initiative to enhance the overall health of Chinese people. Currently, Xu is a member of the national committee for promoting the initiative.
尽管2007年淮河洪水管理取得了较好的成效，但仍存在着许多不足之处。今后要借鉴国内外洪水管理取得的成功经验，继续提高各级政府洪水管理意识，加强干部群众的教育培训。要更加重视利益均衡，注重效果优化；要不断规范人类活动影响，更加重视防止人类对水的侵害；要建立风险管理机制，促进洪水资源利用，实现人与水的和谐相处。
More fit
Meanwhile, the government has also been expanding sports facilities, with sports fields increasing from 4,982 in 1949 to about 3.1 million now, Gou said.
After the PRC was established, sports were given more importance. Gou Zhongwen, head of the GASC, recalled in a published article that within 20 days after the PRC’s birth, a national conference was held to discuss the development of sports, which spelled out the policies for sports development. In June 1952, Mao wrote an inscription celebrating the establishment of the All-China Sports Federation, which read, “Develop sports and strengthen people’s physical fitness.” In November 1952, a sports committee was set up to oversee the development of sports in China.
Currently, 35 percent of people in China take part in sports regularly, he said. In the outline, the government set the goal to raise regular public participation in sports to above 45 percent by the year 2035 and have 92 percent of the people in the country meet the national physical fitness standards by then.
A marathon race in Chongqing Municipality in southwest China on March 19, 2017
In the early days of the PRC, as people were striving to keep themselves fed and clothed, fitness was not a big consideration. After the launch of reform and opening up in the late 1970s, as people’s living standard gradually improved, aerobic exercises spread in China and commercial fitness clubs sprouted up. In the beginning, fitness clubs, many located in luxury hotels, targeted mainly high-end consumers. As the general public became more aware of fitness, the centers became more popularized.
坚定不移推进产业结构转型升级，新型工业化步伐加快。2017年，实现工业增加值630亿元，增长10%。产业集群发展稳步推进，装备制造、新能源、新材料等产业已培育骨干企业40余家、相关配套企业80余家。高新技术工业企业实现增加值75亿元，占全市工业增加值比重11%；战略性新兴产业占全市工业增加值比重6.8%。示范城市建设以来，产业转型升级发展成效显著，三产比例由2014年的1.2：38.1：60.7调整为2017年的1：29.7：69.3，第三产业比重增加明显。
As it gets stronger in competitive sports, China also wants to stress that sports are not just about winning medals. The outline on building the country into a leading sports nation spelled out measures for engaging more of the public in sports, improving competitive sports and enhancing the sports industry, sports culture and international sports exchange, including formulating preferential policies, providing funding, upgrading facilities and organizing mass fitness activities. The sport administration is placing emphasis on promoting mass sports to improve people’s health, Gou said.
The sports that the general public play have also become more colorful. Now, they not only engage in tai chi, dancing, jogging, swimming and playing ballgames, some also take up more challenging sports such as marathon running. According to Gou, in 2018, 1,581 marathons were held in 285 cities in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, during which people participated in a total of 5.83 million runs. In addition, children are now trained in sports traditionally not common to China such as fencing, equestrian sports and ice hockey.
Ge Zhengnan, 71, is a veteran marathon runner in Nantong of Jiangsu Province. Over the past 30 years, he has run in more than 100 marathons in various locations around the country and has been covered by the media numerous times. His most recent race was completed in Nantong on October 13.
麻糍与常爱兰会闹矛盾，但麻糍从来不骂小羽。每天早上麻糍把周小羽放到独轮车上，与那些香味扑鼻的麻糍一起，载他到岭北小学。所以，周小羽每天上学的路程用脚的只有一程，去时是车，回来才是用脚，回来时他会用脚踢一脚小石头再踢一脚小石头地前进。
“I was once in poor health, suffering from high blood pressure and dizziness. My neighbors told me to start running to improve my health, and I haven’t stopped since,” he told the media. In the 1970s, he began middle- to long-distance running, and has covered a total distance of nearly 200,000 km, he said.
Long-distance running has not only given him good health, but also the courage to challenge himself. This is exactly the kind of result the fitness for all measure and the Healthy China initiative aspire to achieve.
By 2050, when China becomes a strong sports country, people’s fitness and health levels, and its overall strength and influence in sports will be leading the world, the outline stated.
思想建党是党的优良传统和政治优势。在党要管党、全面从严治党要求下，不断提高党建和思想政治工作科学化水平是所有党组织的重要任务。高校附属医院承载着教书育人和治病救人的双重职能，通过将精益求精、敢于创新的工匠精神注入党建思想政治理论研究工作，探索新时期党建和思想政治工作的新思路、新方法和新途径，必将提高研究实效性，进而推进高校附属医院党建和思想政治工作的发展。
Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo
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