Overview: Promoting Sports Is Part of National Strategy -

The year 2019 has seen rapid developments in China’s sports law sector as the government continues to stress the significant role that sports must assume in national strategy, stipulated by the State Council in the Outline for Building a Leading Sports Nation on 10 August 2019. The “five strategic missions” identified by the outline indicate the rationale for promoting sports in China: to advance the national fitness campaign, to improve performance in competitive sporting events, to energize the sports industry, to cultivate a vibrant sports culture, and to structure the diplomacy of sport for a new era.