Research On The Contemporary Development Status Of Rural Sports

This paper focuses on the circumstances of sport activities together with the pattern of physical fitness, the peasants'attitude towards sports, the administration of sport activities in villages and the peasants'enthusiasm for joining sport activities in the rural areas of YongCheng. In order to achieve these goals, various kinds of research methods are employed, such as field study, questionare survey and mathematical statistics analysis. The inquiry elicits these following facts:Firstly, the peasants in the rural areas of YongCheng have plenty of leisure time but, most of them spend it watching TV, chatting and playing cards. Gambling activities like Mah-Jong are becoming more and more popular and even some feudalistic superstitions emerge again. Secondly, among those peasants surveyed,48.6% indicated that they never take part in any kind of sport activities. And the following factors constitute the main reason:subjectively, the lack of interest and fear for other people's mock and, objectively, the bad conditions of sport facilities and inappropriate administration of these activities. Thirdly, compared to those of urban areas, severe problems exist in the overall conditions of rural sport facilities. Fourthly, only 9.6% of the peasants surveyed take excercises and the most popular sport activities include basket ball, running, badminton, table tennis, rope skipping and billiards; besides, most of these activities are taking place in open fields such as roads, yards or plazas. Fifthly, the existence of sport facilities doen't serve for the people's excercises but for the leaders'supervisions and therefore, these sport facilities have little use in organizing sport activities for peasants; besides, the government doesn't pay any attention to the sport undertakings in rural areas in YongCheng and the peasants living there never get any kind of operation expenses of sports.Based on these analysis mentioned above, the author recommends some advice on the development of sport activities as follows:Firstly, the government should attach much more importance to the financial support of the sport activities in rural areas, the revision of relevent laws and regulations so as to bridge the gap between rural areas and citys and the promotion of the recognition of the importance of sport activities among peasants. Secondly, great emphasis on the improvement of the administration and regulation of the rural sport activities, the proper plans for further sport development and the organization of various sport activities should also be placed to enrich the rural people's leisure life. Thirdly, the strengthening of sports-related infrastructure construction would provide the rural people with more useful sport facilities. Fourthly, the academic circles should conduct more theoretical and practical studies on sport activities in rural areas.This paper is committed to exploring the conditions of sport activities in rural areas in Yongcheng City and, the author sincerely hopes that the advice recommended in the paper will be benificial to the New Rural Construction Project in Yongcheng.