Factors On Influencing The Development Of Chinese Athletics And Researches On Development Strategies

As the basis for competitive sport, the power of track and field athletics is major standard of athletic level of a country. In the Olympics, track and field sports has two features: it has more gold medals and wider influence. It is known as"those who have track and field get the world". Since the 21st century, China has made brilliant sports achievement in competitive sports, however, the track and field sports fails to develop in general maintained with simultaneous development of the situation, on the contrary there are signs of decline.In this paper, I'll adopt for the study of literature, mathematical statistics and other research methods, by analyzing the performances of Chinese athletes at the Olympic Games, World Championships and the National Games, analyzing the strengths of Chinese competitive track and field as well as its weaknesses. I'll take the sports administrative staff, coaches, experts and scholars on track and field from 90 different sport units, such as National Athletics Administrative Center, Hunan Sports Bureau, Guangxi Sports College, Beijing Sport University, etc. as research objects, with the methods of questionnaires, interviews and so on, analyzing the factors on the development of Athletics and putting forward the strategies on Athletics development. The main conclusions are as follows:1. World track and field in the 21th century shows the following features: the increasing number of participating countries and projects; the emerging of new forces; the world records are constantly rewritten, meanwhile U.S. dominant position challenged.2. The overall level of Athletics in China has been improving. But when we affirm our achievements, we must clearly understand the deficiencies. One shortcoming is that females are more aggressive than males in the track and field and the other is lack of advantaged projects. All in all, to some extent, the development of competitive track and field sports fails to keep the pace with the world.3. The factors affect the development of Chinese competitive track and field sports include six aspects: the first is the training, including the training condition, the training scientific and technological content, special factors in basic training and training program factors; second factor is the staff, including the overall quality of athletes and coaches, personal flow and reserve talent Succession personal factors; third is the economic factor, including the input and incentive factors; forth are the theoretical factors, including the level of education the athletes accept and the researches on the basic theory.; Fifth, institutional factors, including the strategies of national sports, management system, and selection system; the sixth is the environmental factors, including political participation, media factors, stimulant factors, group factors and regulatory factors in sports.4. China should develop Athletics from the following four aspects: first, to perfect the National System under socialist market economy in the new period; second, to improve the technology content in sports training and scientific training level; third, to strengthen selection and training of reserve forces; fourth, improve the physical legal system, pay more attention to anti-doping, clean environment for track and field competition.