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Beijing, 3 Mar (Zhongxin Net) -- Referring to the common memories of his student days, radio gymnastics is counted as one.

When the bell rang for the end of the second class, a prelude to radio gymnastics played on loudspeakers urged students to come to the playground. In order to "cope" with this daily compulsory lesson, some people do exercises like "sleepwalking", and some hide in the classroom and pretend to be sick...

These memories always come to mind when I hear similar melodies. Now, the "memory killing" of office workers' youth has been staged again, and new "scenes" have been unlocked.

Recently, the Sports Bureau of Qinghai Province, the Working Committee of Organs Directly under the Jurisdiction of Qinghai Province and the Federation of Trade Unions of Qinghai Province jointly issued the Notice on Further Promoting the Broadcast Gymnastics and Work Fitness System in the Province. The "Notice" requires that party and government organs, enterprises and institutions at all levels in the province organize and carry out work-break fitness activities for 15 minutes a day from Monday to Friday.

It is worth mentioning that the content of the event is mainly based on the well-known ninth set of radio gymnastics. Only this time, the past recess exercise has become a recess exercise.

Infographic: Stretching exercises in radio exercises. Photo by Yang Huafeng

It was once an "Internet celebrity movement"

Ms. Zhou, 60 years old this year, has deep feelings and deep memories of workplace exercises.

When Ms. Zhou was younger, she worked as a biscuit maker in a food processing factory. The work on the assembly line is boring, and only during the workbench can workers be freed from the mechanical repetitive work. The short 15 minutes a day has become the most awaited leisure moment for Ms. Zhou and her co-workers.

"No one back then didn't do workbenches. In the past, there were no sports and fitness programs, and work-based exercises were the only way for everyone to exercise. Ms. Zhou told reporters.

Speaking of the origin of workshop exercises, it goes back to 1954. At that time, the Administrative Council of the Central People's Government adopted the Notice on Carrying out Work Exercises and Other Sports in Government Organs, which stipulated that ten minutes should be set aside for each morning and afternoon work hours to do work exercises. A precedent was set for organized and led collective physical exercise during an eight-hour working day.

At that time, the first set of radio gymnastics was already widely practiced throughout the country. Radio gymnastics music is broadcast several times a day on several radio stations throughout the country. Every few years, a new set of radio drills came out. Up to now, domestic broadcast gymnastics has been iterated to the 9th set.

According to Ms. Zhou's recollection, at ten o'clock every morning, the password on the factory radio would sound on time: stop working, take a deep breath, one, two, three, four... Ms. Zhou and the other female workers put down their work and began to twist their bodies to the music. Doing radio exercises with music became an important way for hundreds of millions of cadres and workers in China at that time.

Infographic: Coaches are undergoing the eighth set of broadcast gymnastics training. Photo by Tomita

However, with the economic and social development, the change of the working environment and social concepts, the work exercise has gradually lost its former glory. In early 2000, Ms. Zhou became self-employed after being laid off. The once familiar melody of work exercise also slowly blurred in her memory.

On days when there is no work-break exercise, Ms. Zhou plays badminton, table tennis, softball, and dances square dances for a while. She said: "I haven't done exercises for many years, and now I have more ways to exercise. It's much more fun than doing exercises. ”

The staff of the Event and Activity Department of the Group Department of the State General Administration of Sports once told Chinanews.com that the development of workplace exercise in China has a process of change. In the early days, enterprises were mainly state-owned enterprises, and the promotion of work-break exercises was relatively simple. Later, the form of enterprises gradually diversified, and "some enterprises may not be willing to spend time to do unified operations."

Until 2009, taking advantage of the aftermath of the Beijing Olympic Games, the "Regulations on National Fitness" came out, which mentioned that state organs, enterprises and institutions and other organizations should organize their own personnel to carry out workshop (pre) exercises and amateur fitness activities. The long-lost workbench has once again attracted attention.

Infographic: Neat work-break formation. Photo by Yang Huafeng

Can it become the "favorite" of office workers again?

After encouraging the resumption of work-break exercises at the national level, local governments have also stepped up the promotion of work-lapse exercises. For example, under the joint initiative of the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions and other departments, Beijing resumed employee (former) exercise activities in 2010. Radio stations play radio gymnastics music at fixed times every morning and afternoon.

Chuzhou City, Anhui Province also resumed work-break exercises in party and government organs and institutions directly under the city in 2014, and from 9:10 am to <> am every day on weekdays, all organs and institutions organized cadres and employees to exercise.

It is reported that the current national promotion of workplace gymnastics is mainly based on the ninth set of broadcast gymnastics, which was launched after the research of the professional team of Beijing Sports University. However, with the diversification of sports projects, the forms of work exercise are becoming more and more abundant. The "Notice" jointly issued by the three departments of Qinghai Province mentioned above said that in addition to broadcast gymnastics, excellent traditional fitness methods such as "Baduan Jin" and "24 Styles of Simplified Tai Chi" can also be selected.

Today, when the concept of national fitness is prevalent, workplace exercise has gradually become the "favorite" of many young people.

Zhao Wei, 32 years old this year, works in an agency in Beijing. Due to his long sitting at work, he had different degrees of lesions in his lumbar and cervical vertebrae. Staying up late to write materials also made his hairline gradually move back, and the degree of myopia continued to deepen.

Recently, he joined the army of workout exercises, following the office sisters in the corridor: "I have never done workbench exercises before, and now I do it sweating, which is still very good for the body." Sometimes, Zhao Wei felt that radio gymnastics was too dull and boring, and he would also jump rope in the yard, or practice eight dan jin with the video.

The fast-paced urban life makes it difficult for Zhao Wei to find time to go to the gym. For him, work-break exercises can at least ensure a certain amount of exercise every day.

Nowadays, there are more and more young people like Zhao Wei. In the state of difficult work-life balance, work-break exercise is a good way for working people to exercise.

However, in the process of popularizing work-break exercises, there are also many practical challenges. Some netizens said that the daily workload is already very saturated, and they just want to rest during the rest time and do not want to do exercises. Some netizens are worried that "paid exercise" will not affect their own work?

Venue restrictions, individualization of employees' sports needs, and single forms of work-break exercises are all "roadblocks" on the road to popularizing work-based exercises. But if we can awaken the health awareness of more people, perhaps this is the greatest significance of the existence of work-break exercises. (End)