Fitness and leisure industry

Feb 27,2024

The central and local governments attach great importance to the development of the sports industry, and have intensively introduced many favorable policies to attract social capital and accelerate industry development. The sports industry is highly regarded by the government, enterprises, and the capital community. On September 2, 2019, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Outline for Building a Sports Strong Country" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline"), deploying the promotion of the construction of a sports strong country and fully leveraging the important role of sports in the new journey of building a socialist modernized strong country. On September 4, 2019, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting National Fitness and Sports Consumption to Promote High Quality Development of the Sports Industry"

The central and local governments attach great importance to the development of the sports industry, and have intensively introduced many favorable policies to attract social capital and accelerate industry development. The sports industry is highly regarded by the government, enterprises, and the capital community. On September 2, 2019, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Outline for Building a Sports Strong Country" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline"), deploying the promotion of the construction of a sports strong country and fully leveraging the important role of sports in the new journey of building a socialist modernized strong country. On September 4, 2019, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting National Fitness and Sports Consumption to Promote High Quality Development of the Sports Industry", which pointed out that the sports industry plays an irreplaceable role in meeting the growing needs of the people for a better life. The Opinion emphasizes the need to strengthen the guarantee of elements in the sports industry, stimulate market vitality and consumer enthusiasm, promote the sports industry to become a pillar industry of the national economy, actively implement national fitness actions, and make regular participation in sports exercise a way of life. On October 10, 2020, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of National Fitness Facilities and Developing Mass Sports", which put forward specific and practical suggestions for building a higher-level public service system for national fitness from the aspects of improving top-level design, tapping into the potential of existing construction land, improving construction and operation levels, and implementing mass sports improvement actions.

In the long run, the fitness and leisure industry needs to be developed and improved in practice in order to upgrade from a new economic growth point to a medium - to long-term economic growth point. With the acceleration of the marketization process and capital layout of the sports industry, the personalized and differentiated development of sports products will become an important breakthrough. In the future, we should actively explore and support social forces to enter the sports industry, expand the supply of sports products, research and guide policy measures to promote sports consumption, let more people understand the significance of fitness and leisure, and accelerate the development of the fitness and leisure industry.

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