70 years ago today, Comrade Mao Zedong wrote the inscription “Developing sports and enhancing people’s physique”, pointing out the direction for the development of sports in New China. Over the past 70 years, under the guidance of the spirit of the inscription, my country’s sports undertakings have undergone earth-shaking changes and achieved world-renowned achievements.
Over the past 70 years, my country’s sports front has always adhered to the direction of the inscription “Developing sports and enhancing people’s physique”, vigorously carried out mass sports activities, took enhancing people’s physique as a fundamental task, and strived to improve the physical fitness of people of all ethnic groups in the country. The average life expectancy across the country has continued to increase, the physical fitness of young people has undergone gratifying changes, and the number of people participating in physical exercise has continued to grow. As our country enters a new historical period of reform and opening up, the development of mass sports in our country has reached a new stage. In 1995, the “Sports Law of the People’s Republic of China” and the “Outline of the National Fitness Program” were promulgated and implemented. Under the new historical conditions, my country’s mass sports undertakings inherited, carried forward and developed the spirit of Comrade Mao Zedong’s inscription, and my country’s sports undertakings have developed healthily in the new century.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has attached great importance to the sports work, personally planned and promoted the reform and development of the sports undertaking, raised the national fitness to a national strategy, extensively carried out the national fitness campaign, and promoted national fitness and national health in depth. Fusion has made great achievements. The Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics were successfully held, achieving the goal of “driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports“, and the national fitness business has taken a new level.
Revisiting Comrade Mao Zedong’s inscription today, we must earnestly study and work hard to practice Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to “people-centered”, take the people as the main body of sports development, and focus on meeting the people’s fitness needs and promoting people’s As the starting point and end point of sports work, the all-round development of the sports work will be carried out extensively, so as to continuously improve the health of the people, build a higher-level public service system for national fitness, and accelerate the construction of a strong sports country. The cause of national fitness should be planned, coordinated and promoted in the overall layout of “five in one” and the strategic layout of “four comprehensives”, and fully implement the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the second, third and fourth middle schools of the 19th session of the Communist Party of China. , the spirit of the fifth and sixth plenary sessions of the Central Committee, never forget the original intention, keep in mind the mission, and strive to achieve the second centenary goal and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! (Transfer from the 01 edition of “China Sports News” on June 10)