The Outline of the National Fitness Program was issued by the State Council on June 20th 1995, which was specially formulated to carry out mass sports activities more widely, enhance people's physique and promote the development of China's socialist modernization. The Outline of the National Fitness Program is organized and implemented by the State Sports Commission.

The national fitness program is aimed at the whole country, with emphasis on teenagers and children. Organs, enterprises and institutions should strengthen the work of staff and workers' sports, and carry out various, healthy and civilized staff and workers' sports and fitness activities according to people, time and place.