He Long: From the battlefield to the stadium, why did Chairman Mao let him change careers?

Mondo Sports Updated on 2024-01-31

One day in 1952, when he was working in the Southwest Military Region, he received a letter from ***, conveying his wish to serve as the director of the National Sports Commission. Knowing that *** also supported this decision, I accepted the task without hesitation. Subsequently, he was elected director of the Sports Committee at the 19th meeting of the People's Republic of China and began to develop the sports cause of New China. The reason why ** is good at commanding troops to manage sports affairs may have been predestined for a long time. **Born in 1896, the first year of the modern Olympic Games, which were held in Athens for the first Olympic Games.

Influenced by his grandfather, He Liangshi, he was interested in sports from an early age, practicing martial arts, focusing on physical exercise, and was gifted in this area. Although he was not specialized in sports, during the Anti-Japanese War, he actively responded to the call of the soldiers, actively promoted the soldiers to enhance their physique, and even set up a "sports unit" in his command and formed a "combat basketball team" to strengthen the soldiers' physique and unite people's hearts. ** Often emphasized: "Only with a healthy body can you defeat the enemy." ”。These measures not only exercised extraordinary skills, but also received the attention of the first class, causing the shock of the entire army.

Putting this veteran who has experienced many wars in charge of sports affairs is a precise talent arrangement, and perhaps it is already a fateful thing. Perhaps the first thing that came to mind when he was appointed to be in charge of sports was to have him form and lead a "combat basketball team." There is no doubt that national sports are fundamentally different from military sports, and the content, participants and relevant units of national sports are much more complex than military sports, and national sports also involve issues of national image and face, and the responsibility is heavy.

After accepting the arrangement of *** and ** and serving as the director of the sports committee, on the one hand, he put forward the basic guiding ideology of sports to "enhance the physical fitness of the whole people", and on the other hand, established an effective system and system. However, despite the correct thinking, the actual problem is far more intractable than expected. **Apply battlefield experience to sports - if there is a shortage of talent, find talent, first build a team, and then gradually develop. ** On the first day of taking office, there is a problem of lack of talent. Although the country has been established for three years, the majority of the people have still not solved the problem of food and clothing, and sports talents are even rarer. What to do?

**Apply battlefield experience to sports - if there is a shortage of talent, find talent, first build a team, and then gradually develop. In order to form the team, ** made many bold moves. Regardless of public opinion, Japanese women's volleyball coach Hirofumi Omatsu was invited to China for guidance, so that inexperienced newcomers could join the training ......Under the leadership of **, the problems were solved one after another. By 1954, the construction of China's sports team was basically completed, and basketball, volleyball, football, table tennis, swimming, track and field, gymnastics and other teams were born one after another. After having talents, we are facing a new problem - training venues and equipment.

It was found that although sports in China had developed during the period, there was no decent training ground in such a large city of Beijing, and training equipment was even more scarce. Without these, how can sports develop?Soon, they developed a detailed plan for **, and a year later the gymnasium was completed and put into use. With talents and training venues, we began to formulate a system according to the actual situation in China. In addition, he also founded the "China Sports News" and asked *** to inscribe the title himself. With the efforts of China, the basic framework of Chinese sports has been established, which is also an important foundation of China's sports system. As a result, he became the founder of China's sports industry.

At the moment, the current situation in the world of sports seems to deviate from the original intention of the ** marshal, which is deeply shocking and indignant. Recently, a football coach was exposed to be suspected of hundreds of millions, and a basketball player was involved in the "know three when three" incident to destroy other people's marriages. One scandal after another has made us gradually ignore the original call: "develop sports and enhance the physical fitness of the whole people". This situation can't help but make people sigh, is it true that today's sports are only for profit, and there is no noble pursuit?Isn't the sport aimed at making the whole population physically fit?

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