Current Situation and Development Tendencies of Community Sport in Chinese Cities

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Current Situation and Development Tendencies of Community Sport in Chinese Cities

Wang Kaizhen et al (Beijing University of Physical Education, Beijing, China 100084)
Community sport here refers to mass sport in local grass-root communities. The research reveal that community sport in Chinese cities, although still in its rudimental stage with imbalanced development, has the following main features: it is organized in grass -root communities and districts; citizens organize and manage sports activities on a voluntary basis, combined by governmental guidance; sports activities are carried out in small scale, at times suited to citizen's daily life, and at places near where people live. Along with the deepening of economic system reform and the break up of social structure function in cities, citizens' (not including students) sports interests and benefits will progressively turn to community, where sports in return will have a greater development.