| Mass sports is an important part of physical education in China, which is closely related to happiness and healthy of the mass and harmonious society construction. Pay ing attention to mass sports and promoting it to get striding development are importa nt tasks in our country in the new century. By using the method of documentary, logical analysis and comparison, based on the survey data with mass sports participation in 2013 and 2007 in China, in this paper, we study the current situation of participation in our country, the social background of future development of mass sports and development trends of mass sports in China.Research shows that, in 2013 the participation in mass sports and regular sports was higher than in 2007 and the enhancement increased greatly; the main motivation of the masses involved in sports are rich and various, which mainly are the fitness, entertainment, disease prevention and control; sports activities with mainly brisk walking, jogging and small ball; the location of activities are mainly the unit or community sports venues, public sports facilities, road side streets, parks and so on. The ration of accepting social sports instructor is higher than in 2007; physical condition of who often participate in the sports is better than those who don’t participate in the sports, that in urban is better than in the country; no interest, lack of time, laziness, lack of facilities is the main factor that affect the mass sports participation. The longitudinal comparison, since the implementation of the national fitness program, the mass sports in our country has obtained the fast development, participation increased year by year, sports venues and facilities have been improved significantly, but compared to the developed countries horizontally, the participation rate is not high, the sports consumption is low, lack of sports and imbalance between urban and rural areas.The social environment for the future development of mass sports in China has positive effects, as same as there are negative side effects. The high attention of government, sustainable development of economic, the development of education, the acceleration of city process, the aging of the population, the improvement of life quality and inhibiting spread of modern civilization disease will become indispensable social background and environment which supports sustainable development of mass sports important. But fitness consciousness, school physical education is weakening, the imbalance between urban and rural economic development and the television network will shock and hinder the development of mass sports to some extent in China.Based on the current situation of the development and the analysis on future social development environment and background, the future development of mass sports will show the following trends:the masses fitness consciousness, the trend of sports life is more obvious; activity contents and ways will be rich and diverse, incline to diversification and personalization; the construction of public sports facilities will be speed up, and the opening degree will be improved, the material conditions of will be significantly improved; sports consumption level will be higher, and sports consumption structure will tend to be reasonable; consciousness of scientific fitness will be enhanced; the countryside sports will become a new growth point on the development of mass sports, but imbalance still exists; mass sports will continue to enhance the participation rate, but the "saddle shape" structure still exists. |