China News Service, March 25. According to the website of the State Sports General Administration, 12 departments including the State Sports General Administration recently issued the "Implementation Opinions on the Reform and Development of Youth Football in China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Opinions"). Responsible comrades of the relevant departments and bureaus of the General Administration of Sports discussed the Relevant questions were answered by reporters.
1. What is the background and purpose of the document?
Answer: Since the implementation of the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football", under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, our country has comprehensively promoted the reform and development of football, strengthened the popularization and promotion of campus football, built youth football training centers at all levels, and held Chinese youth football competitions. Football League and youth football work have made positive progress. At the same time, it should also be noted that there is a lack of a unified blueprint for the development of youth football in our country. The scale of professional football talents is small, the quality is low, and the growth path is blocked. The youth football training and competition system is not sound enough and there are shortcomings in policy support. The integration of sports and education in the field of youth football urgently needs to be deepened and broken through, and there is an urgent need to accelerate the construction of a new system for the high-quality development of youth football. In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on football work, fully implement the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football" and "Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Sports and Education to Promote the Healthy Development of Youth", in accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the General Administration of Sports On the basis of in-depth research, he took the lead in drafting the "Implementation Opinions on the Reform and Development of China's Youth Football", which was jointly issued and implemented by 12 departments. The "Implementation Opinions" make a top-level design and overall plan for accelerating the high-quality development of youth football, and put forward four insistences: first, adhere to the people-centered approach to popularize football for all young people; second, adhere to the integration of sports and education, cultivate All-round development of football talents; the third is to adhere to the combination of popularization and improvement to form a scientific work system that promotes and popularizes campus football and strengthens and improves professional youth training; the fourth is to adhere to the combination of the national system and the market mechanism to mobilize all forces to develop youth football. . The main goal of the "Implementation Opinions" is to accelerate the construction of a new football reserve talent training system with deep integration of sports and education, mutual promotion of popularization and improvement, integrated design and integrated promotion, and promote the comprehensive and healthy development of youth football.
2. What are the key tasks and innovative measures in the "Implementation Opinions"?
Answer: The "Implementation Opinions" propose six key tasks and policy measures: First, continue to strengthen the popularization of youth football, coordinate with multiple departments, and implement multiple measures simultaneously to steadily expand the football population and prosper youth football culture. The second is to innovate the football reserve talent training system, accelerate the improvement of the "four-in-one" youth training development level of campus, sports school, vocational and social, and at the same time promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of youth football by taking the construction of key football cities and the pilot youth training in the western region as the starting point. . The third is to strengthen youth football training, comprehensively improve the quality of talent selection, and strengthen "technology-assisted training" to accurately improve training results. The fourth is to improve the youth football competition system, with the China Youth Football League as the backbone, make local competitions bigger and more solid, strengthen diversified and comprehensive supervision, and continue to optimize the design of the competition system. The fifth is to strengthen the training of professional football talents, implement the "Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project", expand the training institutions for professional football talents, and strengthen the construction of the coaching team and service management. The sixth is to implement youth football security policies, unblock the training channels for football reserve talents, improve the training compensation policy for young players, strengthen the open utilization of football field facilities, and improve youth football training and event safety management.
3. How to deepen the integration of sports and education in the field of youth football?
Answer: The "Implementation Opinions" make great efforts to deepen integration and open collaboration, and give full play to the multiplier effect of integration. The "Implementation Opinions" clarified the division of responsibilities. The sports department takes the lead in the national youth football work and is responsible for overall planning, macro guidance, overall coordination and supervision, with a focus on improvement. The education department is responsible for the construction and development of campus football, focusing on popularization, and formulating and implementing policies to ensure the advancement of young football talents. The Chinese Football Association and its member associations will give full play to their talent and resource advantages to strengthen industry guidance and technical services. In terms of the integration of training and competition, the "Implementation Opinions" clarified the establishment of a long-term mechanism for the integration of the youth training center and the "Mangyxing" training camp, the smooth connection between campus football matches and the China Youth Football League, the joint release of event calendars, and the integration of athletes Register to participate. At the same time, we will form a joint force in cultivating professional football talents and building a team of coaches. Taking the opportunity of implementing the "Implementation Opinions on Setting up Coaching Positions in Schools", we will establish full-time and part-time football coaching positions, explore the establishment of a coaching sharing mechanism, etc.
4. How to leverage the advantages of the national system to cultivate football reserve talents?
Answer: The "Implementation Opinions" clearly state that we must adhere to the combination of the national system and the market mechanism and mobilize all forces to develop youth football. In particular, government functional departments at all levels are mobilized to increase investment in youth football, based on improving the scale and quality of campus football after-school training, focusing on building a strong football team in sports schools, and adhering to the integration of sports and education to cultivate institutional football reserve talents. Team. By complementing and sharing high-quality educational resources, relying on sports schools to pilot the construction of a number of football youth training centers, we will effectively play the role of sports schools at all levels as the main position for cultivating sports reserve talents, continue to expand the scale of junior football training in children's sports schools, and cultivate interest in , select and breed more outstanding football seedlings on the basis of enhancing their physical fitness.
5. How to strengthen policy guarantees and solve the problem of "retiring at the age of 12"?
Answer: The "Implementation Opinions" strengthen policy guarantees from multiple dimensions, emphasizing the provision of comprehensive, full-process, and warm policy guarantees for the further study and professional development of football talents. It is required to focus on different stages of training and development, continuously provide high-quality training competitions and cultural learning services for young people, and smooth the channels for football reserve talents to enter higher education. Pilot projects should be carried out first, and they should be summarized and promoted to gradually solve the above problems. The "Implementation Opinions" clearly propose that the pilot areas explore the possibility of primary school students and junior high school students to move with the school team when they enter higher education. Pilot special football classes will be established in middle schools in some areas, and pilot schools will be allowed to recruit outstanding football reserve talents within the province. High school students and college students who enter the echelon and first team of professional clubs can retain their student status. Orderly expand the enrollment scale of high-level football sports teams in colleges and universities, especially "double first-class" colleges and universities, and establish a "one-stop" education system that connects primary schools, junior high schools, high schools, and universities. At the same time, the "Implementation Opinions" proposed to accelerate the construction of college football academies. Set up a football major and list it in the undergraduate (junior college) catalog of colleges and universities. Based on social needs, we will steadily increase enrollment targets and vigorously cultivate football professionals. Research and demonstrate the "3+4" integrated training mechanism between sports schools and ordinary undergraduates. Through the combination of the above policies, we can form a synergy to broaden and smooth the growth channels for football talents, build a strong youth training system leader, fill in the shortcomings of the youth training chain, prosper the diversified youth training formats, establish a youth training brand demonstration, continue to deepen the integration of sports and education, and improve the quality of talent training. Effectively address the concerns of parents and students, and gradually get out of the "cliff-like" decline of junior high school football reserve talents.
6. How to promote the implementation of the "Implementation Opinions" in the next step?
Answer: The "Implementation Opinions" were jointly issued and implemented by 12 departments, emphasizing long-term efforts, paying close attention to implementation, highlighting the guiding nature of work deployment and the pertinence of policy measures. It is not only a task list to clarify work priorities, but also a guide to comprehensively promote youth football. operating manual. In the next step, the General Administration of Sports will work with relevant departments and localities to establish a youth football funding investment mechanism with government guidance, social support, and diversified channels in accordance with the division of responsibilities specified in the "Implementation Opinions." Improve the youth football governance system, continue to shift the focus downwards, and mobilize local sports departments to assume the main responsibility. Through measures such as government purchase of services, we will innovate ways of supporting football associations at all levels to carry out youth football work, increase support, and build strong local football associations. Focus on the implementation of documents and policies, improve the assessment and evaluation mechanism, strengthen supervision and implementation, implement the combination of supervision of administration, supervision of schools, supervision of training, and supervision of games, actively create a good development environment for youth football, and promote the healthy development of youth football.