【Domestic Information】The Latest Five-Year Plan for Public Sports Facility Construction Released

　　The latest five-year plan for public sports facility construction is released by National Development and Reform Commission and General Administration of Sport on 10th. Central and local government will invest more into public sports facility and try to promote it during the new five-year plan.

　　Plan requires constructing sports basic public service network covers city and countryside, setting up complete sports public facility operation system, ensuring rights of physical activities, enriching spiritual and cultural life, forming healthy lifestyle, improving national physical fitness as well as health level and life quality, promoting all-round development of human being, social harmony and civilization progress.

　　The aims in plan are as follows: public sports facility will achieve great development, and sports field area per capital will be more than 1.5 m2 until 2015. Every counties has public sports field if possible; more than 50% counties (cities or districts) have fitness centers; more than 50% avenues (towns), communities (villages) have convenient and practical sports facilities.

　　So the main construction task in plan includes: constructing public sports fields in Midwest counties without medium and large sports facility; constructing medium and small fitness centers in counties with sports field per capital less than 1 m2, that is comprehensive indoor fitness gymnasium which can support various mass sports activities without fixed stands; continuing to carry out “Farmers Sports Project” in Midwest villages without public sports fields; supporting setting up a simple hardening basketball court as well as a pair of basketball stands and 2 outdoor table tennis tables.

　　Plan indicates that local governments are responsible for basic public service sports facility and ensure the investment; complete preferential policies on finance, tax, banking and land, and activate social force to supply sports service; encourage agencies and enterprises to increase investment and the number of public sports facility.

　　According to the plan, central government will supply special grant year by year to county sports fields and fitness centers.