【Domestic Information】P.E. Becomes the Focus of Chinese Middle and Primary Schools

　　China will carry out Three-Year Action Plan of P.E. which demands that governments at various levels find the problems, key points and weak links and strengthen P.E. in middle and primary schools according to local social and economic situations.

　　The State Council has approved Opinions of Further Strengthening P.E. in Schools drafted by Ministry of Education, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance and General Administration of Sport of China.

　　For years, governments at various levels have carried out P.E. policies and measures and promoted the development of P.E. reform. However, P.E. is still the weak point of school education. P.E. does not attract enough attentions and the imperfect evaluation system and the lack of P.E. teachers and facilities hinder the promotion of students’ physique and health. Therefore, people should realize the importance of P.E. and pay more attention to the promotion of students’ health.

　　According to the Opinions, we should strengthen P.E. in middle and primary schools. By the end of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, sports facilities in schools would have been in line with national standards; P.E. teachers would have been enough; the monitoring system of students’ health would have been perfect; scientific and formal P.E. evaluation system would have been established.

　　Schools should reduce students’ homework burden and make sure that students take one hour sports activity each day. Schools should forbid squeezing P.E. class time and student’s exercise time. Schools should strengthen the training of P.E. teachers and provide training opportunities for teachers. By 2015, all P.E. teachers in middle and primary schools should have been trained.

　　P.E. and students’ physique health should become the performance evaluation standards of leaders of schools and educational departments, in order to strengthen P.E. in schools.

　　If students’ physique health were continuously going down for three years, schools would be graded as bad in the evaluation.