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A CHINESE expert has called on domestic school teachers and principals to learn from their US counterparts and help develop campus sport in China.
“China’s campus sport lags at least 50 years behind the United States, and the difference in the schools’ operative principle in the two countries remains the main reason,” according to Yang Liguo, general secretary of the Federation of University Sports of China.
Yang was talking this week at the launch ceremony for the 2015 Pac-12 Universities China Educational Expo, to be held in Shanghai in November, together with the inaugural Pac-12 China Game.
The Pacific-12 Conference (Pac-12), the leading collegiate sports league in the US, is introducing the 2015 China Game at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area on November 14.
The basketball duel between the University of Washington Huskies and the University of Texas Longhorns will become the first US sports league regular season event to be held in China.
The Federation of University Sports of China and Pac-12 have been cooperating since 2012. Chinese teachers and educators have gone to the US to learn from their counterparts, and education themed forums have been held in China.
“There is a difference in the recognition of the importance of sports education between the two countries,” said Yang. “In China, PE lessons are often neglected, and what the school managements do is different from what they say or what is required of them.”
Yang said Chinese schools, at all levels, have done a poor job in sports education, which is a worrying situation.
“It’s not the students’ academic performance, but their health condition that worries me. The myopia rate among students has almost reached 100 percent in high schools. Obesity has become a regular problem. We must carry out countermeasures and learn from the best — the US, regarding facilities, parents and students’ attitudes towards sports.”
Though China has been a powerhouse on the international sports stage, its athletes are often products of a national or provincial training system, who usually find it hard to find a balance between academic performance and professional training. However, in Chinese schools, sport and PE lessons are often given less importance, or even have to give way to other subjects and courses, though the country’s educational authority has pledged to rectify the situation.
Pac-12 is a collegiate athletic conference that operates in the western US. It has 12 full member institutions, including Stanford University, University of Arizona, University of Oregon, and University of Utah. Many of their talented student-athletes start earning their spurs in the school days before turning professional and collect fame.
According to Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott, students from Pac-12 institutes have won a total of 1,100 Olympic medals, including 19 gold medals at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
“Sport is as important as academic achievements for students in the US,” Scott revealed. “Many get to know a university via the school’s sports achievements. A wide choice of sports activities makes a university more attractive to students, staff and donors.”
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