Essay On Sports In China

Sports in China

Sports played an important part in shaping of a national consciousness among the Chinese people and consolidated the unity of the country, China.

China’s sporting glories has been an essential part of the strategies of Chinese nationalists, politicians and educationalists, who aimed at achieving national salvation. In the past years, China has topped many Olympic/Asian Games with countless gold medals. Is this success something to cheer about?

In my opinion, achieving gold medals in games is not the most important thing. One very good example is the 2013 East Asian Games in Tianjin, China. The motto of the Games is Peace, Friendship, Harmony and Development. It is meant to be a festival which brings all the Asian countries together. However, China's sport has

In fact, the government provided funding to support mass sport and has provided legal protection for people who took part in sports and leisure activities. Furthermore, in the development of mass sport, more playgrounds and sports facilities were built to serve local communities in both urban and rural China. Sports facilities in government schools had also been opened up to the public. Local governments also provided funding to promote mass sport.

In recent years, there are an increasing number of citizens who take part regularly in sports and leisure activities.

Sports played an important role in establishing China's international image and helped to fulfil China's ambitions for modernisation. However, with the further development of the market economy, elite sport system is facing some major difficulties.

Firstly, the elite sport stem is run by the government. This goes against the ethos of the market economy, which requires sport to depend on society and the market. It also goes against the objective of the reforms, which should eventually form a 'small government' and a `big