Chinanews.com, Beijing, July 29th. On the evening of the 29th, the General Administration of Sport's website was updated. Gao Zhidan, who previously served as the deputy director of the State Sports General Administration, showed that he was the director and secretary of the party group.

  The updated website of the General Administration of Sport of China introduced it as "Director, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, presiding over the overall work of the General Administration".

Screenshot of the website of the State Sports General Administration

  In June 2016, Gao Zhidan was appointed as the deputy director of the State Sports General Administration.

Some media quoted public information showing that during his tenure as deputy director of the State Sports General Administration, Gao Zhidan was in charge of competition, foreign affairs and the daily work of the Chinese Olympic Committee, and was in charge of track and field, swimming, synchronized swimming, diving, boxing, taekwondo, karate and other summer events and alpine skiing. , snowmobiles, steel frame snowmobiles, sleds and other winter sports training, participation and domestic event preparation, etc., in charge of sports division, outreach division, boxing and taekwondo center (including taekwondo association, karate association), track and field center, swimming Center, Wushu Center, Training Bureau, Information Center, Communication Center, and guide the work of the Track and Field Association and the Boxing Association.

  It is worth mentioning that in early 2017, Gao Zhidan, then deputy director of the State Sports General Administration, also served as director of the Winter Sports Management Center.

In an interview at the beginning of his tenure, he said: "The projects that were well grasped in the past have to be hard-boiled now. The projects that failed to achieve good results in the past must be difficult. Regardless of talents or facilities, let's take the hard-bone first."

  At the Beijing Winter Olympics to be held on February 4, 2022, the Chinese sports delegation won 9 golds, 4 silvers and 2 bronzes, ranking third in the medal table, with the highest number of gold medals and medals in history.

Data map: Gao Zhidan.

Photo by Yuan Hongheng

  Before serving as deputy director, Gao Zhidan also served as a member of the party group and assistant director of the State Sports General Administration.

Before that, Gao Zhidan worked in several department-level units and centers of the State Sports General Administration.

  Searching for "Gao Zhidan" on the website of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, the latest content is "On the morning of March 22, the deputy director of the General Administration of Sports of the State Gao Zhidan met in Beijing with the visiting director of the Macao Sports Bureau, Pan Yongquan and his party."

  In recent media reports, Gao Zhidan went to the party branch of the national track and field team on July 7 to conduct a symposium, research, and lecture on party lessons. The authors Gong Lijiao and Liu Shiying presented the awards and gave guidance on the next step of the Party branch of the national track and field team.

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