[News Essay].
On January 27, at the Australian Open, Chinese Jinhua Zheng Qinwen faced Belarusian star Sabalenka, the last Australian Open champion. Although she lost to her opponent in the end, she won the first Australian Open women's singles runner-up in her career, and Zheng Qinwen became the second Chinese player after Li Na to reach a Grand Slam singles final. Not only that, the Chinese men's tennis team has also made historic breakthroughs in recent years, with the number of male players within the top 500 in the world ranking increasing to seven. In this year's Australian Open, Zhang Zhizhen partnered with Czech player Mahach to reach the semifinals all the way, creating the best Grand Slam men's doubles result for Chinese Tennis Association players.
China's tennis has blossomed in many places and a new generation of players has emerged, which has become a vivid epitome of the rapid development of Chinese sports. Competitive sports is one of the hard indicators for building a sports power, and promoting the high-quality development of competitive sports is an inevitable requirement for building a sports power. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the company has attached great importance to the construction of a sports power, always put people's health in the priority position, comprehensively promoted the development of public sports, competitive sports, sports industry, sports culture and other aspects, incorporated national fitness into the national strategy, and constantly created a new situation in the development of China's sports industry.
The foundation of building a sports power is to involve all people and improve their health and quality of life. National fitness is an inevitable choice to meet the people's yearning for a better life in the new era, and it is the foundation and guarantee for all people to enhance their physical fitness and live a healthy life. Nowadays, on the lawn of the park, playing frisbee has become a new trend of sports and social interaction for young people; At home on rest days, many people will turn on their mobile phones and tablets and follow the network anchor to dance aerobics; Whether it's surfing in the hot summer or skiing happily in the cold winter, the rich sports program provides a variety of choices for leisure and entertainment. By creating more new projects and new forms of sports and fitness, we can drive the enthusiasm of the people to participate in sports and fitness activities, and form a healthy, sunny and high-spirited style of the times in the whole society. At the same time, we should pay full attention to the role of promoting youth sports in accelerating the construction of a sports power and a healthy China, adhere to the educational concept of health first, strengthen school physical education, and insist on promoting the coordinated development of youth cultural learning and physical exercise, so as to cultivate socialist builders and people with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor for the motherland.
In the process of accelerating the construction of a sports power, the development of the sports industry is a solid foundation for building a sports power. In recent years, documents such as "Several Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Sports Industry and Promoting Sports Consumption" and "Outline for the Construction of a Sports Power" have clearly regarded the development of the sports industry as an important force to promote economic transformation and upgrading, and proposed the development of intelligent sports, fitness and leisure, outdoor sports and other formats, drawing a clear path for the development of the sports industry. To promote the high-quality development of the sports industry, it is necessary to start from the sports consumption needs of the people, cater to the escalating consumption needs of the people, deeply empower the sports industry with the innovation of digital technology and scene formats, integrate the love of sports into the social life of the people, vigorously develop mass sports, and lay a solid foundation for a strong sports country. At the same time, in the face of the new problems brought by the new situation to the sports industry, it is necessary to adhere to the problem orientation, focus on the key areas and key links of the development of the sports industry, deepen reform and innovation, continuously optimize the operation mode, products and services of the sports industry, carefully polish each link, promote the high-quality development of the sports industry, and inject new vitality and impetus into the development of a sports power.
Sports carry the dream of a strong country and national rejuvenation, and are related to the happiness of the people and the future of the nation. The development of sports is not only an important part of the realization of the Chinese dream, but also provides a strong spiritual force for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In the future, we should further focus on meeting the needs of the people, build a higher level of public service system for national fitness, vigorously promote the prosperity and development of sports culture, combine sports and fitness with people's health, combine the promotion of Chinese sports spirit with firm cultural self-confidence, and continue to develop sports, improve people's health, and strengthen the construction of a sports power at a new starting point, so as to inject inexhaustible impetus into the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Author: Sun Yuepeng, a special researcher at the Liaoning Provincial Research Center for the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, and an associate professor at the Department of Physical Education of Dalian Maritime University