Physical Education In China(IV)

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2001-01-01

PE in educational institutions implements the principle of combining popularization with improvement£® For some students who are talented in sports events, schools provide after-class training to improve their skills£® Training of reserve talents in sports for the country is also an integral part of PE in educational institutions. After-class training targets mainly sports teams and representing team of the school. It aims to develop students' strong points and increasingly improve their skills through regular training programs. With regard to a limited number of students talented with outstanding sports skills, the schools will send them, on a selective base, to spare-time sports schools for adolescence to receive systematic training. Up to now, there are thousands of such spare-time sports schools throughout the country, which give full play to their sports skills, and have turned out a great number of outstanding reserve talents with their improved skills.

In order to activate school life, promote students' enthusiasm in participating physical exercises, cultivate their awareness of competition and favorable inter personal relationship and find out sports talents, educational institutions organize a variety of sports competitions on regular base, with deversified form of limited-scale and single-event competitions, regularly or seasonally, between classes, grades or even schools. Educational institutions of different types and at different levels usually hold sports games both in spring and autumn. Comprehensive sports games for primary school students are held at county level and those for secondary school students at provincial level. The National School Games is held every three years and the National University Games every four years. In addition, some nationwide single-event competitions are also organized irregularly, and school or university sports teams are sent to participate in international or regional competitions. With increasingly improved skills and grown sports teams, student athletes and players have formed up a strong fresh force in the national competition sports.


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