Where to go for fitness? The official plan is coming!
In order to speed up the solution to the problem of "where to go for fitness", the General Office of the General Administration of Sport, together with the General Offices of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the People’s Bank of China, recently issued the "Work Plan for the Improvement of National Fitness Facilities (2023-2025)" and launched the "National Fitness Facilities Improvement Action".
According to reports, the "National Fitness Facilities Improvement Action" will focus on four major actions: strengthening the foundation of fitness facilities, improving quality, providing excellent services and increasing benefits, expanding the increment of fitness facilities, improving the quality of fitness facilities, making good use of the stock of fitness facilities, and improving the open service level and comprehensive use efficiency of fitness facilities; According to the plan, by 2025, the county and village three-level public fitness facilities and community 15-minute fitness circle will achieve full coverage, mass sports events based on fitness facilities will become more popular, and the service level and use efficiency of public fitness facilities will be further improved.
In addition, the work plan also proposes that in principle, all newly-built fitness facilities in various places should be equipped with 100% fitness facilities for the elderly and children. At the same time, combined with the urban renewal work such as the renovation of old urban communities and the construction of complete communities, the embedded fitness facilities will be built by using the urban "Jinjiao Yinbian" to build a multi-level and diversified fitness circle around the masses.
The State Sports General Administration said that the next step will be to make concerted efforts with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the People’s Bank of China, make overall use of various funding channels, establish and improve the incentive mechanism, increase supervision, speed up the solution of the problem of "where to go for fitness" and promote the construction of a higher-level public service system for national fitness. (CCTV reporter Yang Wei)