China News Service, March 25. According to the website of the State Sports General Administration, recently, the State Sports General Administration and 12 other departments issued the "Implementation Opinions on the Reform and Development of Youth Football in China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"). The opinion mentioned that training integration should be comprehensively promoted. The Chinese Football Association is building a five-level youth training center with the National Football Youth Training Academy as the leader: "national, regional, provincial (district, city), city, district (county)". By 2025, 20 provincial-level men's and women's football youth training centers will be established and continue to be deployed layer by layer in cities and counties. By 2030, full coverage of provincial-level youth training centers will be achieved.
The full text of the opinion is as follows:
Sports administrative departments, development and reform commissions, education departments (education committees), public security departments (bureaus), finance departments (bureaus), natural resource authorities, housing and urban-rural development departments (committees, management committees), and radio and television bureaus of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government , Federation of Trade Unions, Youth League Committee, Women's Federation, Football Association, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Education Bureau, Public Security Bureau, Finance Bureau, Natural Resources Bureau, Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Federation of Trade Unions, Youth League Committee, Women's Federation, Football Association:
In order to thoroughly implement the overall arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on the reform and development of football, 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", and accelerate the promotion of high-quality development of youth football, we have studied and formulated The "Implementation Opinions on the Reform and Development of China's Youth Football" were issued. It is issued to you, please conscientiously implemented.
General Administration of Sport National Development and Reform Commission
Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Security
Ministry of Finance and Natural Resources
Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, State Administration of Radio, Film and Television
Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of All-China Federation of Trade Unions
All-China Women's Federation Chinese Football Association
February 23, 2024
Implementation Opinions on the Reform and Development of China Youth Football
In order to thoroughly implement the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on strengthening youth sports and football reform and development, 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", and promote the healthy and sustainable development of youth football. For high-quality development, the following implementation opinions are formulated.
1. Overall requirements
(1) Guiding ideology. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we will fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and comprehensively strengthen the Party’s leadership over youth football work. Adhere to the people-centered approach and promote the popularization of football to all young people. Adhere to the integration of sports and education to cultivate all-round development of football talents. Adhere to the combination of popularization and improvement to form a scientific work pattern that promotes and popularizes campus football and strengthens and improves professional youth training. Adhere to the combination of the national system and the market mechanism, mobilize all forces to develop youth football, strive to create a new situation in football work, and make due contributions to the construction of a sports power.
(2) Main objectives. By 2025, we will promote the construction of characteristic campus football schools in accordance with the planning goals and establish a normalized assessment and exit mechanism. By establishing five national high-level football reserve talent bases and a group of provincial and municipal men’s and women’s football youth training centers, the China Youth Football League has become my country’s youth football league with the widest coverage, the largest number of participants, the highest competitive level, and the greatest social influence. In top competitions, the growth channel for young players has been initially established, and a football talent training system that integrates physical education and education has been initially formed. By 2030, the youth football population will increase significantly, the youth football competition and training system with a reasonable structure, orderly connection, and clear levels will operate stably, and the results of the men's and women's youth national teams will rank among the best in Asia. By 2035, youth football management capabilities will be comprehensively improved, the competition training system will be further improved, and the youth football national team will achieve excellent results in important international events, providing strong support for the overall revitalization of Chinese football.
2. Continue to strengthen the popularization of youth football
(3) Steady expansion of the football population. Schools at all levels and types regard football as an important part of physical education courses and campus sports activities, and include it in after-school extended services. Schools at all levels are encouraged to establish football clubs and participate in football matches and activities inside and outside the school. The sports department and the football association support trade unions, the Communist Youth League, the Women's Federation and other people's organizations in carrying out extensive special football activities. Build a high-quality volunteer team with football culture and skills, and actively carry out various football charity activities such as "Happy Football" special volunteer services, charity football matches, and football carnivals. (The Ministry of Education, the General Administration of Sports, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the All-China Women’s Federation, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(4) Prosper youth football culture. Strengthen the construction of youth football ethics, compile the "Manual of Code of Conduct for Youth Football Related Personnel", attach importance to the ideological and moral education of young athletes and the professional ethics education of practitioners, cultivate the patriotism, collectivism, unity and fighting spirit of young athletes, and establish a healthy and Happy, progressive football concept. Encourage and guide the creation of a number of high-quality football-themed masterpieces such as animation games, literature, film and television that are popular among young people. (The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
3. Innovate the football reserve talent training system
(5) Improve the campus football after-school training mechanism. Strengthen the regional coordination of football-specific schools, optimize the layout of corresponding schools, and promote the balanced development of regional, urban and rural football-specific schools. Strictly implement the requirements of the "National Youth Campus Football Characteristic School Construction Standards" and improve the quality of characteristic school construction. Incorporate after-school training into the daily education and teaching of the school, establish class and school football teams, improve the training system throughout each school period, and establish a working mechanism for high-level coaches to guide teaching and after-school training. Encourage ordinary schools to co-develop with youth training centers, sports schools, social youth training institutions and professional club echelons to cultivate a number of high-level school football teams and steadily participate in all levels of the China Youth Football League. (The Ministry of Education, General Administration of Sports, and Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(6) Strengthen the construction of football teams in sports schools. Support sports schools in cultivating established football talent teams, encourage sports schools to complement and share educational resources, and jointly run famous teams with famous schools. Expand the scale of junior football training in children's sports schools, and select and cultivate outstanding football seedlings on the basis of cultivating interest and enhancing physical fitness. (The General Administration of Sports, the Chinese Football Association, and the Ministry of Education are responsible)
(7) Give full play to the leading role of professional football youth training. Improve the standards for the construction of youth training echelons of professional football clubs, clarify development goals, provide classified guidance, and promote the construction of echelons of various professional football clubs in a step-by-step manner. Implement the "Excellence Plan" for professional football youth training, carry out star rating of professional football club youth training academies, and continue to improve the overall quality management level of the club echelon. Regularly carry out inspection, training and technical guidance work for the national professional football club echelons every year, and effectively play the leading and exemplary role of professional football clubs in cultivating outstanding football reserve talents. (Chinese Football Association and General Administration of Sports are responsible)
(8) Promote the standardized and healthy development of social football youth training. Encourage social capital to invest in the establishment of football youth training institutions, continue to carry out the cultivation and evaluation of social football brand youth training institutions, and guide social football youth training institutions to become better and stronger. Implement the "Quality Improvement Action" for social football youth training, focus on supporting social football youth training institutions to build echelons for the U13 age group and above, and actively participate in youth football events. Actively promote the useful exploration and experience of purchasing services and joint supervision from social football youth training institutions in various places, implement local management responsibilities, and achieve standardized development and innovative development. (Chinese Football Association and General Administration of Sports are responsible)
(9) Comprehensively strengthen the construction of youth football national teams. Establish and improve men's and women's football teams that connect different age groups, smooth talent selection channels, and achieve development despite shortcomings. Select and equip a strong team of coaches, build a multi-field and interdisciplinary composite support team, continue to improve scientific training levels, and actively explore and form relatively unified, mature and stable technical characteristics and tactical styles. Invite high-level foreign teams to China and organize high-quality competitions to hone the teams. Strengthen the construction of team style and build national teams at all levels that are good at fighting and have excellent work style. (Responsible for the General Administration of Sports and the Chinese Football Association)
(10) Promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of youth football. Improve construction standards, build 18 key football cities with a foundation for development, and strive to create a number of distinctive campus football reform pilot areas. Increase support for youth football in old revolutionary base areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas, rural revitalization assistance areas and other areas. In the western region, pilot projects for the construction of a football youth training system integrating sports and education will be carried out, and support will be increased in teacher training, venue construction, competition activities, and talent training. Establish and improve a long-term mechanism for overseas study and training of young football talents in western China. Strengthen coordination and work together to promote various forms of targeted and targeted support for youth football in the eastern and central football-developed areas. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Finance, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(11) Expand overseas training channels and space for young players. Youth training institutions at all levels are encouraged to select and send outstanding young players to overseas clubs for training and participation in high-level competitions. The Chinese Football Association has established a long-term service guarantee mechanism for my country's overseas youth players, and has included international exchanges of campus football into Chinese and foreign sister city exchange projects and Chinese and foreign inter-school exchange projects. Select outstanding football teachers, coaches, referees and other football professionals to study and exchange in developed football countries and regions. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
4. Strengthen youth football training
(12) Comprehensively promote training integration. The Chinese Football Association is building a five-level youth training center with the National Football Youth Training Academy as the leader: "national, regional, provincial (district, city), city, district (county)". By 2025, 20 provincial-level men's and women's football youth training centers will be established and continue to be deployed layer by layer in cities and counties. By 2030, full coverage of provincial-level youth training centers will be achieved. The Chinese Football Association and key football cities have jointly built five national high-level football reserve talent bases for men's and women's football teams. Relying on the pilot projects of sports schools, we will build a number of football youth training centers that integrate sports and education, and build a comprehensive coverage of the region for the selection of outstanding football talents. The sports department and the Football Association have worked with the education department to establish a long-term mechanism for the integration and co-construction of the youth training center and the "Mangyxing" training camp to achieve scientific layout, resource sharing, and joint training. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(13) Comprehensively improve the quality of material selection. Build a big data management platform for youth football reserve talents, improve the selection standards and procedures for youth football players, and establish a scientific, objective and fair selection system to provide basis and support for the selection and training of football talents. Promote the construction of the scout team, go deep into the grassroots and first-line selection and archive it, strengthen the scientific tracking, stage evaluation and service guarantee of outstanding athletes, and dynamically adjust the list of youth training centers for training and youth football national team training. (Chinese Football Association, General Administration of Sports, and Ministry of Education are responsible)
(14) Accurately improve training effectiveness. Comprehensively promote the implementation of the "Chinese Youth Football Training Outline" and strengthen the monitoring and evaluation of implementation. Establish a "normalized" training monitoring and "drip-type" service guarantee system for outstanding football talents, and encourage the establishment of social mentors and psychological assistance systems for key athletes. The Chinese Football Association has strengthened the construction of the knowledge management system and created an intelligent youth training service platform with "training diagnostic guidance, competition analysis guidance and online expert guidance" as its core content. Use "technology-assisted training" to speed up the filling of the shortcomings in the coaching ability of grassroots youth training coaches and continuously improve the coaching ability of on-the-job coaches. (Chinese Football Association and General Administration of Sports are responsible)
5. Improve the youth football competition system
(15) Optimize the design of the competition system. Integrate resources from all parties and continue to promote the construction of a youth football competition system with the China Youth Football League as the backbone and other events as support and coordination. Strengthen the standardized management of campus football events, continue to improve the level of competitions, and form a four-level campus football league system that is connected with the China Youth Football League. Make local competitions bigger and more solid, encourage local governments to innovate competition models, support grassroots competitions, and achieve coordinated development of local and national competitions. Support qualified regions to hold regional high school age football leagues. Sports departments, education departments and football associations at all levels have established an annual consultation and joint release mechanism for events. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(16) Strengthen diversified and comprehensive supervision. Improve various systems such as competition style and discipline management, competition qualification review, disciplinary punishment, and dispute resolution. Strictly investigate and crack down on various violations and illegal crimes in accordance with the law, and strictly implement anti-doping work requirements. The Chinese Football Association takes the lead in establishing a national youth football player registration system that integrates sports and education to achieve integrated registration and promote reasonable and orderly participation and mobility of young people. Standardize the technical level identification of young football players and accept social supervision. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
6. Strengthen the training of professional football talents
(17) Strengthen football professional talent training institutions. Accelerate the construction of college football academies. Establish a football major and include it in the catalog of undergraduate (junior college) majors in colleges and universities, and support and encourage qualified schools to build football academies. Based on the needs of social development, we will steadily expand enrollment targets and vigorously cultivate football professionals. Research and demonstrate the "3+4" integrated training mechanism between sports schools and ordinary undergraduates, explore the industry-university-research collaborative model, promote the innovative development of football vocational education, and realize the normalized and order-based training of football talents. Innovative football professional talent training model. Explore the establishment of a "separation system of training and assessment" and recruit high-quality resources to expand the scale of training coaches and referees. The Chinese Football Association relies on university football academies to build a number of training bases for coaches and referees, and cultivates "double-certified" football professionals through level training authorization, course certification and other methods. (The Ministry of Education, General Administration of Sports, and Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(18) Strengthen the construction of the coaching team. The "Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project" to revitalize Chinese football coaches will be implemented step by step. Increase the training of grassroots football coaches and encourage and guide coaches to move to the frontline of grassroots youth training. Adhere to the dual development of "going out" and "bringing in", make use of high-quality foreign football education resources, expand the selection and recruitment of high-level foreign lecturers, accelerate the construction of the lecturer team, and gradually establish a team of full-time coaches and lecturers. Open a green channel for coaching training for professional football players, establish mechanisms such as financial support and an honor system, and encourage and support outstanding retired football players to serve as youth training coaches. Select 100 youth coaches each for men's and women's football teams for key training, and send a group of outstanding coaches to study in developed football countries to train them to become "leading" coaches. (Chinese Football Association and General Administration of Sports are responsible)
(19) Strengthen the service management of professional football talent teams. All localities should improve the personnel management system related to physical education teachers and coaches, strengthen the construction of teacher ethics, and ensure that physical education teachers or coaches enjoy the same treatment as teachers of other subjects in terms of merit evaluation, salary, professional title evaluation, job evaluation, etc. . Activities such as football teaching, training and competitions carried out by physical education teachers or coaches must be included in the workload. Schools with campus football characteristics can set up full-time and part-time football coaching positions according to actual needs. Strictly implement the coaching qualification management system for coaches to obtain certification and continue training. Encourage football reform pilot areas to explore coach sharing mechanisms and formulate football coach professional title evaluation standards that are consistent with local realities. (The Ministry of Education, General Administration of Sports, and Chinese Football Association are responsible)
7. Implement youth football protection policies
(20) Smooth the channels for football reserve talents to enter higher education. Improve the recruitment policy for football reserve talents, and study and introduce policies for the reasonable movement of young players across school districts when enrolling in higher education. Select some cities and counties as a pilot program to allow primary school students and junior high school students to move with their school teams within counties and cities respectively when entering higher education. Pilot special football classes will be established in middle schools in some areas, and pilot schools will be allowed to recruit students with football expertise 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. Encourage all localities to provide preferential policies to female football players in terms of enrollment quotas, incentive mechanisms, competition selection, and condition guarantees. (The Ministry of Education and the General Administration of Sports are responsible)
(21) Improve the training compensation policy for young players. Standardize and improve the transfer system for young players, and strengthen the management of athlete agents. Football associations and professional clubs at all levels should reasonably formulate training compensation standards, focus on implementing football training compensation and joint mechanism compensation policies, effectively ensure "whoever trains will benefit", and stimulate the enthusiasm of various entities to cultivate high-level football reserve talents. (Responsible for the General Administration of Sports and the Chinese Football Association)
(22) Strengthen the construction and open utilization of football venues. Combined with the preparation and implementation of detailed land and space planning, steadily increase the number of social football fields and campus football fields, and improve the supporting facilities of football fields. By 2025, the governments of key football cities and reform pilot zones will take the lead in implementing the policy of opening football venues to young people for free or at low fees. Encourage various localities to build flexible and applicable non-standard football venues. (The General Administration of Sports, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(23) Strengthen youth football training and event safety management. Establish and improve the physical and mental health protection mechanism for young players and effectively protect the sports rights of young people. Strengthen the risk management of production safety and sports injuries during youth football training and competitions inside and outside schools. Improve the comprehensive sports accident injury insurance mechanism to achieve full coverage for young people participating in football training and competitions. Improve the multi-party insurance investment mechanism for event organizers, participating units, participating units, and athletes' families, and improve the mechanism for preventing and handling sports injury risks. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
8. Strengthen organization and implementation
(24) Strengthen organizational leadership. All localities must strengthen overall coordination and guidance for the reform and development of youth football, include youth football work on the important agenda, formulate development plans, clarify development goals, and establish a long-term collaborative mechanism. Strengthen supervision and inspection of the implementation of these opinions, and implement a combination of administrative supervision, training supervision, competition supervision, and school supervision to ensure the implementation of various policies. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(25) Clarify the division of responsibilities. The sports department takes the lead in the national youth football work and is responsible for the overall planning, macro guidance, overall coordination, and supervision of youth football development; the education department fulfills its responsibility as the supervisor of youth campus football and is responsible for the overall planning, comprehensive management, and implementation of campus football, providing young people with Football seedlings formulate and implement relevant policies such as guarantees for further studies; the Chinese Football Association and its member associations give full play to their talent and resource advantages to strengthen industry guidance and technical services for youth football. (The General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(26) Increase funding investment. Improve the funding investment mechanism. Establish a youth football funding investment mechanism with government guidance, market participation, social support, and diverse channels. Formulate a list of government purchase services, innovate ways to support youth football work by football associations at all levels through government purchase services and other measures, and increase support. Educational administrative departments at all levels should strengthen policy guarantees. Football-specific schools should coordinate school public funds and other related funding channels in accordance with regulations, and support the development of football teaching, training, competitions and other activities. Actively explore ways to raise funds through social and market-oriented operations and encourage and guide donations from social forces. Encourage qualified regions to establish football development foundations to expand funding sources for youth football. (The Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, General Administration of Sports, and Chinese Football Association are responsible)
(27) Create a good atmosphere. Extensively publicize the educational, health, motivational value and multi-educational functions of football, adhere to a positive publicity policy, strengthen public opinion guidance, and strengthen news services. Make full use of various traditional media and new media, give full play to the leading role of the central mainstream media, increase publicity reports, television and online broadcasts of youth football events, and actively demonstrate the results of youth football reform and development. Select advanced youth football figures and typical practices, tell the story of youth football in the new era, promote a healthy and progressive football culture, and create a good atmosphere and public opinion environment in which society, schools, and families jointly care about and support the healthy development of youth football. (The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the General Administration of Sports, the Ministry of Education, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the Chinese Football Association are responsible)