The 73rd anniversary of the national fitness theme activity with the inscription “Developing sports and enhancing people’s physical fitness” will be launched

This year marks the 73rd anniversary of Comrade Mao Zedong’s inscription “Developing sports and enhancing people’s physical fitness”. In order to deepen the integration of national fitness and health, improve the physical fitness and quality of life of the people, and further play the important role of sports in meeting the people’s aspirations for a better life and promoting economic and social development, the General Office of the General Administration of Sport of China recently issued a notice: around June 10th, a national fitness themed activity with the inscription “Developing sports and enhancing people’s physical fitness” will be organized nationwide.
This themed event will set up national main venues in the National Olympic Sports Center, Changzhou, Jiangsu, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Hefei, Anhui, Xianning, Hubei, and Yinchuan, Ningxia. Other places and units will follow the format of the national main venue event, organize and carry out national fitness themed activities that are close to the masses, highly participatory, and diverse in form according to local conditions and circumstances. Theme activities can utilize the National Fitness Online Games platform, combining online and offline activities with virtual reality, to guide different groups of people such as the elderly, teenagers, women, farmers, and people with disabilities to participate.
During the theme event, we will solidly promote the opening of public sports facilities around the masses. Around June 10th, sports venues and public sports facilities within the area will be open to the public for free or at a low cost, fully utilizing the existing capacity of public sports facilities to provide convenient and diverse venue facilities for the public, and promoting widespread participation in national fitness events.
At the same time, various regions will carry out nationwide fitness volunteer service activities in depth. Based on the characteristics and needs of different groups of people, sports projects, and regions, various localities and units take the “Striving for a New Journey and Promoting Health through Sports” national fitness volunteer service activity as the main form, fully leveraging the leading and driving role of outstanding athletes, coaches, social sports instructors, and sports professionals to provide sports project experiences, promote the spirit of Chinese sports, and other activities to enhance the enthusiasm of the masses to participate in national fitness.
During the event, we will vigorously carry out scientific fitness guidance activities. Carry out “Scientific Fitness Lecture Hall” and “Scientific Fitness Guidance Goes to Grassroots”, widely spread the national fitness culture, and promote scientific fitness methods. Combining with the “Weight Management Year” activity, strengthen the popularization and promotion of scientific fitness, and enhance the awareness of weight management among the whole population; Mobilize broad social participation and enhance the weight management skills of the entire population; Popularize healthy lifestyles and promote the improvement of weight abnormalities in some populations. To carry out health intervention activities for adolescent health problems such as “small glasses, small obesity, and scoliosis”, provide guidance services such as physical fitness monitoring and exercise prescriptions, help adolescents establish scientific fitness awareness, develop healthy lifestyle habits, and improve their initiative and enthusiasm for participating in sports activities.
The relevant person in charge of the Group Department of the General Administration of Sport of China expressed the hope that through this event, a series of events that are close to the people, convenient to participate in, and diverse in form can be brought to the people’s side, public services can be delivered to the people’s side, and the increasingly diverse fitness needs of the people can be continuously met, effectively enhancing the sense of gain and satisfaction of the people’s participation in national fitness. (Translated from May 15th, China Sports Daily, page 01)