Empirical Study Of Chinese Collegiate Elite Sport Teams’ Development

As the socialist market economic system continues to improve, especially as theThird Plenary Session of the eighteenth CPC Central Committee decided to furtherreform, collegiate elite sport teams are treated as the new attempt to reform the elitesport training model in China. In substance, on the one hand the sports talentscultivating integrate into campus has a rich cultural heritage, open up a new way todevelop all-round development of sports talents, on the other hand, to promote reformand development of collegiate sports. Therefore, to speed up the construction anddevelopment of collegiate elite sport teams, and to build scientific managementsystem of elite sport teams that match up with international standards and theeducational reform, is not only the requirement of the reform of Chinese elite sportmanagement system which contributes to the sustainable development of thecompetitive sports, but also the requirement of the development of collegiate elitesport itself.This study is based on theories of sports sociology, management, sport trainingand statistics, by methods of literature review, expert interview, questionnaire, casestudy, content analysis and statistical analysis. The purpose of this paper is to studythe developmental tactics of collegiate elite sport teams in China, and to find a waythat can adapt to the socialist market economic system and comply with the law of thedevelopment of college, at the meantime, meet the needs of the development ofcollegiate elite sport teams.The main results of this study are as follows:1．According to the summary of27years’ achievement and experience gotfrom the college elite sport teams, a series of problems have been found: thedevelopment orientation needs to be corrected; the constraints of presentcompetitive sports need to be removed; the ideas of holding college elite sport teamsneed to be strengthened; the identity of college elite sport teams players need to bedefined clearly; the coaches’ abilities need to be improved; the pool of potentialcollegiate elite athletes needs to be optimized; the guarantee for college elite sport teams need to be reinforced.2． According to the file spirit of2005National Educational Department andGeneral Administration of Sports, the development of the whole college elite sportteam need to be scaled up steadily and improve its quality of sports teams. Meanwhilesports colleges’ high level sports teams should be planed and built as one importantcomponent of college elite sport teams and they can not be excluded because ofdifferent affiliation and registration relationship.3．The sustainable development of Chinese college elite sport teams shouldfollow its own development characteristics and depend closely on the city’s economic,social and educational development. The regular features of the development ofChina’s collegiate elite sport teams are: the sports chosen should comply with the age,the interests of the college students and their likeness, the feature of college studentsgroup, the feature of the training are "Intensive type","knowledge" and "high-tech",and the goal is to train excellent athletes with all-round development.4. To accelerate the construction of College elite sport teams, the key is to persistin reform and innovation. For government departments, it needs institutionalinnovation, to create a favorable social developmental environment for college tobuild high performance sports teams, give the necessary autonomy to colleges, andgive some preferential policies to support and encourage; for colleges themselves,they need to renew their perceptions, fully understand the role and significance ofCollege Athletes, follow the rules, define their positions accurately, and strive to builda true high-level sports teams which can become the traditional strengths and brandsfor colleges.5. The development targets of collegiate elite sport teams are: developing a"knowledge-based","cultural type" outstanding athletic talent; leading sportsactivities for the college students; enhancing the centripetal force of the teachers andstudents; serving the Goals of the colleges.6. The identification of the collegiate elite athletes: full-time undergraduate orgraduate students who have no fixed salary incomes. 7． The sports events positioning of collegiate elite sport teams: sports eventsshould be popular among teachers and students and become the school’s traditionalsports; comply with the sport’s own law of age; comply with the characteristics ofcollege students; fully take into account the strategic needs of the country and thecity’s sports development; take full account of the sport that carry out widely inprimary and secondary schools.8. The patterns of developing collegiate elite sport teams include both the insideand the outside pattern. The outside institution pattern is the ideal one for the futuredevelopment of the collegiate elite sport teams, however, under currentmacro-circumstance, it is difficult to determine which pattern is better, therefore,further studies and attempts are needed. At the same time, given the restraints ofcollege students’ age and the sports events’ promotion possibility, it’s still difficult forcollege elite sport teams to solve the problem of all the sports events professionalteams’ exit strategy.