◇Sports has been given new connotations and extensions. The goal of building a "sports power" has marked the new positioning of sports in the new era. It is an important symbol of social development and human progress, and an important manifestation of comprehensive national strength and national soft power.

  ◇From national fitness to healthy China, combining sports fitness with people’s health, the two major national strategies are superimposed to consolidate the foundation of a strong sports nation

Accelerate the building of a sports power

  Building a strong sports country is an important goal of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.

  From the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated the goal of "widely launching nationwide fitness activities and accelerating the construction of a sports power", to the release of the "Outline for Building a Sports Powerful Country" in September 2019, the strategic tasks of a sports power country were arranged, and then to " The 14th Five-Year Plan and the 2035 long-term goal outline clearly stated that by 2035, "build a sports power", sports has become a landmark cause of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

  In January 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Beijing and Hebei, and presided over the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics preparation work briefing, pointed out that building a sports power is an important goal for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. .

  Standing at the intersection of the "two hundred years" history, it can be clearly discovered that sports has been given a brand-new connotation and extension.

Our reporter conducted in-depth interviews and investigations, and comprehensively analyzed the inevitable logic and far-reaching significance of building a sports power in the new era.

Sports are strong, China is strong

  The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the Paralympic Winter Games are major landmark events held at the beginning of my country's "14th Five-Year Plan" period.

From January 18 to 19 this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping braved the severe cold to visit Haidian, Yanqing, Zhangjiakou and other places successively to go deep into stadiums, training bases, transportation hubs, etc. to learn about the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

  From January 18th to 20th, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission visited Beijing and Hebei and presided over a report on the preparations for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

It was the afternoon of the 18th. Xi Jinping was at the National Alpine Ski Center in Yanqing District, Beijing, and had a cordial exchange with the stadium support staff, athletes, and coaches.

Photo by Yue Yuewei / This Newsletter

  This is General Secretary Xi Jinping's first domestic inspection activity in 2021, and it is also his fourth field visit to the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

Since Beijing submitted its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics at the end of 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always cared about the bidding and preparations for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

In February 2014, he was invited to attend the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics. During his 43-hour visit to Russia, there were 12 bilateral and multilateral events. President Xi Jinping has never forgotten to promote Beijing.

He told IOC President Bach: “In China, ice and snow sports do not enter Shanhaiguan. If ice and snow projects can be promoted inside the customs, it is estimated that two or three billion people will participate, thus igniting the torch of China’s ice and snow sports."

  Before the International Olympic Committee voted on the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics on July 31, 2015, President Xi Jinping made a promise to the world via video: "The Chinese people look forward to and wait for this opportunity. I believe that if you choose Beijing, the Chinese people will definitely be able to dedicate a wonderful, extraordinary and outstanding Winter Olympics to the world in Beijing!"

  Promises must be kept and action must be resolute.

More than five years have passed, and China has consistently fulfilled its commitments in its Olympic bid.

Nowadays, China's ice and snow sports and ice and snow culture are rapidly "expanding south, west and east", and mass winter sports are widely carried out. The number of ice and snow tourists in Zhejiang, Guizhou, Hubei and other places has achieved a steady growth of about 10% per year.

The "Ice and Snow Entering Campus" jointly promoted by the education and sports system will promote the popularization of ice and snow sports to hundreds of cities, thousands of schools, and millions of young people by 2022.

  Why is it said that hosting the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Paralympic Winter Games are highly compatible with the achievement of the "two centenary" goals?

That's because in the minds of General Secretary Xi Jinping, sports have already had a brand new positioning and unique role in economic and social development.

  The Beijing Winter Olympics not only promoted the development of China's ice and snow sports, but also an important measure to implement the coordinated development strategy of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.

The Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway and Beijing-Lijiazhuang Expressway have been completed one after another, activating a "central artery" in the supporting construction of the Winter Olympic Games, linking Zhangjiakou, Chongli, Yanqing and Beijing urban areas into one line, which means that Yanqing and Zhangjiakou have officially entered the capital "One-hour traffic circle".

This year, General Secretary Xi Jinping further proposed to accelerate the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Sports Cultural Tourism Belt, injecting new connotations into the coordinated development strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.

  The new era must follow the new development concept.

Green, sharing, openness, and cleanliness-The Beijing Winter Olympics concept that General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized is highly compatible with the new development concept of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness, and sharing. A new model for running Olympics that is affordable, profitable and sustainable.

Because of this, Bach became the number one fan of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

He said: "The hosting of the Beijing Winter Olympics will not only leave a huge legacy for China, but it will also be a landmark event for the development of global winter sports."

  The ice and snow are also Jinshan and Yinshan.

In the past five years or so, as the main venue for the Winter Olympics snow projects, Chongli, a formerly impoverished national-level county, has seized the historical opportunity and has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Today, 1 out of every 4 people in Chongli is engaged in ice and snow-related work. Many Chongli people who have gone out to work for many years have returned to their hometowns. The locals have taken up the "snow rice bowl" and completely shed their hats in poor counties.

  "Sports is strong, China is strong, and national sports are prosperous." In the new era, the proposal to build a sports power is an important part of the overall development of China and an important part of the Chinese people to achieve the "two centenary" goals. It is the righteousness of the country's prosperity and an important part of the people's healthy and happy life.

  Because of this, General Secretary Xi Jinping always attaches great importance to the development of sports from a strategic perspective, and has made arrangements for promoting the building of a sports power on many occasions.

At the seminar of representatives of experts in the field of education, culture, health and sports held in September 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping summed up the new connotations of sports in the new era with "four important": sports is an important way to improve people's health, and is to satisfy the people. An important means to yearn for a better life and promote the all-round development of people is an important driving force for economic and social development and an important platform for showing the country’s cultural soft power.

From National Fitness to Healthy China

  Health is 1, and with this 1, the 0 behind career, family, reputation, wealth, etc. will have meaning, and the success of life is all tied to the stability of 1.

  "Without the health of the whole people, there can be no comprehensive well-off." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has placed the maintenance of people's health in a more prominent position.

At the 2016 National Health and Health Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to promote a healthy and civilized lifestyle, establish the concept of general health and general health, and transform the treatment of diseases as the center of people’s health, and establish a sound The health education system improves the health literacy of the whole people, and promotes the deep integration of national fitness and national health.

  From national fitness to healthy China, the superposition of the two national strategies has consolidated the foundation of a sports power.

From the 2014 "Several Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Sports Industry and Promoting Sports Consumption", the National Fitness was upgraded to a national strategy. In 2016, the "Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline pointed out that advancing the construction of a healthy China is to comprehensively improve the health quality of the Chinese nation and achieve A national strategy for the coordinated development of people’s health and economy and society.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has a great foresight and accurately outlined a clear logic and realization path between the two major national strategies.

  "Developing sports and enhancing the people's physique" is the fundamental task of my country's sports work.

This requires us to fully understand the positive significance of sports to improve people's health, implement the national strategy of national fitness, popularize national fitness, and promote the construction of a healthy China.

  At this stage, the needs of the people have shifted from "does it" to "good or not".

Wang Bing, dean of Hebei Yonghuai National Fitness and National Health Development Research Institute, believes that people's pursuit of health and happiness will become the first demand in the next 30 years.

Specific to the national fitness business, how to coordinate the construction of national fitness facilities and build a higher-level national fitness public service system is the current examination paper.

  Whether the answers are good or not, the people feel the most intuitive.

The construction of the national fitness public service system is changing with each passing day: There are more sports facilities around the country. As of the end of 2020, there are 3.713 million sports venues nationwide, with an area of ​​3.10 billion square meters. The number and area of ​​sports facilities have greatly increased; the sports guidance around them has increased. Scientifically, there are 30 national-level, 204 first-level, 474 second-level and 1609 third-level social sports instructor training bases, cultivating a total of about 650,000 social sports instructors at all levels; there are more events around, and associations at all levels Become the main force in organizing mass sports events...

  The in-depth integration of national fitness and national health means promoting the advancement of health barriers and establishing a new model of sports promotion in which the sports, health and health departments collaborate and the whole society participates in sports.

  "Practice the treatment of the disease before the disease", how to go from treatment to disease prevention, the ability and responsibility of sports has become a key part of it.

Xie Minhao, director of the Institute of Sports Medicine of the State Sports General Administration, said that sports play an irreplaceable role in improving people's physical fitness and health, and promoting people's all-round development.

  The "Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline also proposes to improve the public service system for national fitness, extensively carry out national fitness exercises, strengthen physical and medical integration and non-medical health interventions, and promote sports activities for key populations.

It is also necessary to establish and improve a library of exercise prescriptions for different groups of people, different environments, and different physical conditions, promote the formation of a disease management and health service model that combines sports and medicine, and strengthen the construction of a national fitness technology innovation platform and scientific fitness guidance service station.

If the young is strong, China is strong.

  Youth is strong in many aspects, including ideological and moral character, academic performance, innovation ability, and practical ability, as well as good health, strong physique, and sound personality.

General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed that it is necessary to adhere to the educational philosophy of health first, strengthen school physical education, promote the coordinated development of youth cultural learning and physical exercise, and help students enjoy physical exercise, enhance their physical fitness, improve their personality, and exercise their will.

  Tang Jiangpeng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and head of the Xishan Senior High School in Jiangsu Province, is a firm practitioner of this concept.

In addition to traditional sports courses such as basketball, volleyball, and football, Xishan High School also added 16 sports programs such as swimming, fencing, taekwondo, free fighting, yoga, and Tai Chi based on the needs of students. The children passed 2 national compulsory sports every week. Classes, 2 required school-based courses and 1 class team development class, which are based on grades and are taught according to options.

  The nine-story platform rises from the soil.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the foundation of a sports power lies in mass sports.

Over the past year or so, a sudden new crown pneumonia epidemic has swept the world.

In the process of fighting the epidemic, more and more people in the country have begun to deeply understand General Secretary Xi Jinping's good intentions to attach great importance to national fitness and to open up the logical relationship between national fitness and national health.

  Extensive development of national fitness activities will help further promote the overall development of mass sports and competitive sports, and gradually solve the problem of strong competitive sports and weak mass sports.

This will help further promote the high-quality development of sports in the new era, solidify the foundation of a sports power, and continue to consolidate the foundation for the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.

  Young players in the U8 age group of Dalian Tornado Club are training (photographed on May 19, 2020) Photo by Pan Yulong/this issue

Promote the all-round development of people and all-round progress of society

  104 years ago, Comrade Mao Zedong proposed in the "Sports Research": "If you want to civilize your spirit, you must first be barbaric of your physique; if you want to be barbaric, the spirit of civilization will follow." In his view, "the effect of sports As for strengthening the muscles and bones, thus increasing knowledge, thus adjusting emotions, and thus strengthening will."

  "China's sports industry continues to develop, and the Chinese government attaches great importance to sports. Our goal is to build a sports power." In February 2014, in an exclusive interview with Russian TV, President Xi Jinping pointed out.

  From "civilized its spirit and barbaric physique" to "developing sports and enhancing the people's physique", to building a sports power, its essential connotations are the same.

  General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that to speed up the building of a sports power, we must adhere to the people-centered thinking, regard the people as the main body of the development of sports, and regard meeting the people's fitness needs and promoting the overall development of people as the starting point and goal of sports work. .

  It is worth noting that in the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for the National Economic and Social Development of the People’s Republic of China and the Outline of Long-Term Goals for 2035" released in March this year, building a sports power was listed in Under the chapter of "Human's All-round Development", this deeply fits General Secretary Xi Jinping's idea of ​​a sports powerhouse.

Sports play an important and irreplaceable role in improving people's physical fitness and health, promoting people's all-round development, enriching people's spiritual and cultural life, promoting economic and social development, and inspiring people of all ethnic groups across the country to promote the spirit of pursuing excellence and breaking through themselves. .

  To promote the all-round development of people, to win in the present, but also to win in the future.

Ni Minjing, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, believes that the comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, and artistic labor is now re-emphasized. Moral education should be the first, and sports must be in the C position. If the sports work is done well, the moral, intellectual, physical, and artistic labor can be fundamentally guaranteed.

  In Tang Jiangpeng's view, education is for the development of people. The overall quality of today's children is the overall strength of the country in the future, that is, the level of social happiness. A good education should cultivate lifelong athletes, responsibilities, and problem solvers. Elegant life.

  Promoting the all-round development of people is not only about physical and mental health, but also about spiritual encouragement.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the development of sports is not only an important part of realizing the Chinese dream, but also provides a powerful spiritual force for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

  Athletes fight bravely in the international arena, and the Chinese women's volleyball team wins the Olympic championship again... Competitive sports has a strong appeal of cohesion.

In the new era to build a sports power, the patriotism that wins glory for the country, the fighting spirit that dares to compete for the first place, and the national self-confidence that promotes our country's prestige are the powerful spiritual forces to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The new generation of athletes has countless "circle fans", and Chinese role models have inspired more people to shine in their respective fields on and off the stadium.

  Not only that, but the "gold medal" can also be won outside the arena.

The preparatory work for the Winter Olympics has set a benchmark for the Olympics, and the hosting of high-level international events has been highly praised... China is actively participating in international sports affairs and has more and more voices in the international sports "circle of friends".

The Taekwondo Grand Slam event, founded in Wuxi, Jiangsu, is now not only a direct Olympic Games, but also promotes the reform of the world's taekwondo competition rules. The Chinese "IP" tells a new Chinese story.

In the past few years, the Men’s Basketball World Cup, Badminton World Championships, World Fencing Championships, Table Tennis World Cup, Sudirman Cup, Tangyou Cup...Many international high-level events have been held in China, and the world has shown the high quality of China time and time again. Competition organization and service capabilities.

FIBA President Hamane Niang said: "China has set a new benchmark for the Basketball World Cup." This is also the "Chinese answer sheet" sent by China for the international sports industry.

  Standing on the historical coordinates of the new era, the dream of a sports powerhouse is closely related to the Chinese dream.

From "sports power" to "sports power", although there is only one word difference, it is an important manifestation of the improvement of comprehensive national strength and the improvement of social civilization.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that sports is an important symbol of social development and human progress, and an important manifestation of comprehensive national strength and national soft power.

  From this perspective, sports should become an important platform for displaying the soft power of national culture. The competition is all-round and more difficult than pure competitive sports. The soft power of the country needs the comprehensive hard power of a sports power to support it.

Whether it is mass sports, competitive sports or the sports industry, it is necessary to make strides forward on the current basis. While laying a solid foundation, more celebrities and leading companies will emerge to truly shine on the world stage.

  The mission is on our shoulders, and I am struggling.

Standing on the historical coordinates of the new era, to build a socialist modern country in an all-round way, we need to be strong in all aspects, and sports must be strong, so that Chinese sports can enter the best times in the "best times."

(Reporter Wang Hengzhi)