Background On the 23rd, the National Conference on School Physical Education was held in Beijing. State Councilor Chen Zhili attended the meeting and announced the launch of the "National Sunshine Sports Campaign for Hundreds of Million Students", stressing the need to conscientiously implement the Party's educational policy, comprehensively promote quality education, and vigorously strengthen school physical education, so as to make school physical education the focus of the national fitness campaign and effectively improve the health quality of young people. Call on young people to seize the opportunity of hosting the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in China and set off a sports craze. On September 18, 2006, the State Sports General Administration and the Ministry of Education jointly held a press conference to announce the monitoring results. Yang Guiren, director of the Department of Physical Education of the Ministry of Education, introduced the results of physical fitness monitoring of more than 380,000 children and adolescents (students): while the students' physical health level continued to improve, their endurance, speed, explosiveness and strength showed a downward trend, the detection rate of overweight and obesity among students continued to increase, and the detection rate of poor eyesight remained high.
Chen Zhili emphasized that school physical education is a major event of education and physical education. To engage in education, we must attach importance to physical education; To engage in physical education, we must attach importance to school physical education. Governments at all levels and the administrative departments of education and sports should, in accordance with the requirement of "health first" put forward by Comrade Mao Zedong, establish a scientific view of talents and fully understand the positive role of sports in strengthening physical fitness, cultivating sentiment, enlightening wisdom, magnificent life, cultivating unity and cooperation, perseverance, dedication to the spirit of friendship and carrying forward the national spirit. We should understand the importance and urgency of strengthening school physical education from a strategic perspective, strengthen leadership with a high sense of political responsibility for young people, take comprehensive measures from the aspects of guiding ideology, evaluation system, institutional mechanism and policy orientation, create good conditions for school physical education from the aspects of capital investment, condition construction, teacher allocation and curriculum guidance, establish and improve the supervision mechanism, and ensure that all measures of school physical education are implemented.
Chen Zhili demanded that students should take part in one hour of physical exercise every day on the premise of ensuring the full development of physical education class and not being squeezed out, so that the concept of "exercise for one hour every day and live a healthy life for a lifetime" can be deeply rooted in people's hearts. Reform physical education teaching and school physical education work to enhance the vitality and attraction of school physical education work. Organize multi-level and diversified sports teams and competitions to improve students' interest in participating in extracurricular sports activities. Principals should personally mobilize and call on students to participate in extracurricular sports activities, and head teachers in primary and secondary schools, college counselors, physical education teachers and students should be active organizers and promoters of sports activities to form a lively campus sports atmosphere in which everyone participates. She hopes that parents, communities and news media will care about and support school sports work, and form a joint force to promote the vigorous development of youth sports activities and promote the healthy growth of young people. On February 23rd, 65438, State Councilor Chen Zhili announced the official launch of the "National Sunshine Sports Campaign for Hundreds of Million Students", and a large-scale mass sports activity for all students in schools at all levels in China began. In order to strengthen the guidance of this activity, the Ministry of Education, the State Sports General Administration and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League jointly issued the Notice on Launching Sunshine Sports for Hundreds of Million Students in China.
According to the Notice, in three to five years, more than 85% of schools will fully implement the Standards for Students' Physical Fitness and Health, and more than 85% of students can exercise 1 hour every day, reach the qualified level of the Standards for Students' Physical Fitness and Health, master at least two daily exercise skills, form good physical exercise habits, and effectively improve students' physical fitness and health.
The three departments require that the "Sunshine Sports" should be based on the full implementation of the "Students' Physical Health Standards", and establish and improve the record system of the test results, which will serve as an important basis for graduation and further study. It should also be combined with physical education class teaching and extracurricular sports activities to ensure that students have a good physical education class and an hour of exercise time every day. Vigorously carry out large-scale extracurricular sports activities and constantly enrich the forms and contents of students' extracurricular sports activities. Through publicity, the slogans of "health first", "reaching the standard and creating excellence, keeping fit" and "exercising for one hour every day, working healthily for 50 years and living happily for a lifetime" are widely known and deeply rooted in people's hearts.
First, we should understand the importance and urgency of strengthening school physical education from a strategic perspective, strengthen leadership, work hard and achieve results. We should adhere to the people-oriented Scientific Outlook on Development, incorporate the improvement of teenagers' health quality into the overall goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, incorporate it into the planning of education and sports work, take teenagers' physical health status as an important index to evaluate education and sports work, earnestly strengthen the leadership over school sports work, and change the situation of "saying important, doing secondary and not busy" in school sports as soon as possible.
Secondly, we should truly establish a scientific view of talents and take comprehensive measures from guiding ideology, evaluation system, institutional mechanism and policy orientation to strengthen school physical education. The main obstacle to strengthening school physical education is exam-oriented education. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the work in a multi-pronged manner, effectively change the situation of students' excessive academic burden, and improve the evaluation and assessment system for schools and students.
Third, take practical measures to create good conditions for strengthening school physical education. Vigorously strengthen the construction of school sports facilities and improve the level of school physical education teachers and physical education teaching; We should pay special attention to improving the health quality of rural teenagers, take various forms to ensure the physical education teachers and sports facilities in rural schools, ensure that the physical education class in rural schools is in full swing, and carry out vivid and diverse sports activities according to local conditions; Efforts should be made to improve nutrition and hygiene conditions and improve the health security level of rural students. Education administrative departments at all levels should strengthen school physical education from the aspects of capital investment, condition construction, teacher allocation, curriculum guidance, supervision and inspection. Sports administrative departments at all levels should take strengthening school sports as the focus of the national fitness campaign, actively promote the combination of sports and education, make full use of existing sports resources to support school sports, build new sports resources in schools, especially colleges and universities, and promote the vigorous development of mass sports through school sports and community sports. All walks of life should provide help for young students to carry out healthy sports activities, national defense education, labor and social practice, and at the same time strengthen the standardized management of market behaviors such as various Internet cafes, game halls and cram schools.
Fourth, reform physical education teaching and school physical education work to enhance the vitality and attraction of school physical education work. First, we must ensure a good physical education class. Physical education curriculum is the key to school physical education, which plays an important role in helping students form exercise habits, master physical education knowledge and develop sports skills. It is necessary to ensure the full development of physical education class and not be squeezed out. Physical education class in the compulsory education stage can only be increased, not decreased. In senior high school, schools can't occupy physical education class in any name, and colleges and universities should also do a good job in physical education class. Second, we must ensure that students participate in physical exercise for one hour every day, so that the concept of "exercise for one hour every day and live a healthy life" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Schools should provide conditions for students' extracurricular physical exercise, organize multi-level and diversified sports teams and competitions, improve students' interest and enhance the attractiveness of extracurricular sports activities. Principals should personally mobilize and call on students to participate in extracurricular sports activities, and head teachers in primary and secondary schools, college counselors, physical education teachers and students should be active organizers and promoters of sports activities to form a lively campus sports atmosphere in which everyone participates. Amateur training of young athletes is the basis of cultivating high-quality reserve talents in competitive sports in China, and it also plays a great role in driving and promoting school sports. Traditional sports schools, amateur sports schools and universities with high-level sports teams should correctly handle the relationship between popularization and improvement, mass sports and competitive sports, and organically combine the all-round development of school sports with the cultivation of higher-level athletes with higher quality for the country. At the same time, special attention should be paid to scientifically arranging the schedules of young students and strengthening targeted health guidance. At present, we should attach great importance to the high myopia rate of students and take practical measures to resolutely reduce the high myopia rate of students.
Fifth, establish and improve the supervision mechanism to ensure that all policies and measures of school physical education work are implemented. This time, the opinions of the Ministry of Education and the General Administration of Sports put the policy emphasis on improving the guarantee and supervision mechanism, and I agree with them very much. We should take resolute and effective measures to ensure the status of school physical education. First of all, it is necessary to establish and improve the school sports supervision system, the students' physical health monitoring system and the sports examination evaluation system, and establish an all-round and dynamic school sports and students' physical health evaluation system. The conclusion of sports supervision and the results of students' physical health test should be published, and it should be used as an important index to measure local and school education, and as an important reference to adjust the enrollment plan of colleges and universities and the allocation of enrollment places in demonstration high schools. Physical exercise and health status should be taken as important contents of students' growth records and included in students' files as an important basis for graduation and further studies.
Sixth, the whole society should support school physical education and care about the healthy growth of young students. Education, sports departments, schools, communities and news media should form a joint force and play an active role according to their respective functions. Social sports facilities should be actively open to schools and students, and school sports venues should also be open to students and society on holidays, so as to give full play to the positive role of various sports resources in promoting the health of teenagers and promoting the national fitness campaign. It is necessary to further improve community sports facilities and encourage community organizations to organize young families to carry out beneficial sports activities. The news media should publicize the healthy and scientific modern lifestyle, popularize sports health knowledge, and create a good public opinion atmosphere for school sports. Through the joint efforts of schools, communities and news media, we will educate parents with vivid cases and easy-to-understand truths, help parents to establish a correct concept of education, parenting, success and health, let more parents and children participate in physical exercise together, and make family education methods and lifestyles full of vitality of the times. It is hoped that the news media will strengthen the coverage of school sports work and student competitions, and further guide and promote the vigorous development of youth sports activities.
Comrades, we are about to usher in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The Olympic Games belong to the whole people, but to teenagers. Hosting a successful Olympic Games is not only the Olympic Games itself, but also an opportunity to promote the whole nation, especially young people, to improve their sports level and health quality and inspire their national spirit. Schools at all levels and types should seize the opportunity to set off a youth sports craze, practice the concepts of green Olympics, high-tech Olympics and people's Olympics, show the spirit of young people in China to meet and host the Olympics, and improve the level of school sports work and the health quality of all young people.