The purpose of this study examines and analyzes realistic perspective on China’s sports system and its development in terms of the unfolding process since their reform, and projects its future outlook to anticipate further development. The backgroun...
The purpose of this study examines and analyzes realistic perspective on China’s sports system and its development in terms of the unfolding process since their reform, and projects its future outlook to anticipate further development. The background and those situation are analysed and future recommendations made. The paper attempt to discuss factors contributing to the circumstances and to imply possible solutions. The results of this study were as following. First, in order to continue its accomplishments of being a leading sports power in the world, China established the system that could have both elite and popular sports to be developed in the structure of market economy. Second, accepting Taiwan in international competitions and the start of Deng Xiao Ping’s "One Nation Two System" raised China’s foreign sports policy into a new chapter, creating "Olympics Promotion System" as well as playing a major role in the international scene of sports. Third, even though China took a similar approach to develop its sports enforcing method, China’s sports system eventually became unique of its own that suits to the circumstance of its society. While current market-oriented sports system is certainly different from the past nation-wide and enforced plan, the reform has been made to have the elite sports leading the entire development as a whole. Fourth, since the reform, the government encouraged and promoted for more direct and active involvement by local and regional communities, thereby enhancing econo·mic status of popular sports and everyday life. Such tendency made the shift from the welfare-focused towards the management-oriented, being distributed starting with major cities.