Guangdong Province, National Fitness Activities Situation And Strategic Studies

This paper was one of "the investigations for Chinese mass sport in 2001", it was also a tracing study for the similar investigation in 1996. The investigating objects were 946 homes of Guangdong. By the methods of investigation, comparison, visit and discussion, It analyzed the rate of Guangdong residents' participation in sports, different sports occasions and ways, motivations and consumptions on sports, comparing the situation of participation in sport in city and country. It also compared this investigation and that of 1996 in vertical and horizontal ways. The results indicated the development of mass fitness in Guangdong was healthy and active: the sport population had reached 34.2%, the choice of exercise occasions was wide, the sport items were colorful, the ways of participating in sport were free and the perceptions on sport changed into rational.At the same time, there were some problems in Guangdong residents participating in sport as follows: 1. The construction of sport population was not rational: men were more than women, the youth and the elderly were more than the middle age of adult, sport population of cities were more than that in countries. 2. The contradiction existed between the supply and need for exercise space, especially the public occasions couldn't be fit for the need. 3. The major ways of participating in sport were free combination and persona] exercise, lacking of organization and stability. 4. Theresidents lacked the knowledge of sport social instructers and the needs was not high.5. The contradiction existed between the residents' more and more different physical and mental needs and the circumstances of community sports. 6. There are spatial differences between the situation of participating in sport in city and country.The results indicated that the major factors affecting residents participating in sport were personal and social factors. And the personal factors included the resident's sport values, the character career and the character contradiction, personal consumption tendency, living mode. The social factors included exercise space and tools, social regulations, social sports instructors. At the end this paper proposed countermeasures correspondingly.