The General Administration of Sport is the government agency responsible for sports in China. It is subordinate to the State Council. It also administers the All-China Sports Federation and Chinese Olympic Committee.
The agency is currently led by minister Gao Zhidan.
History In the 1950s, the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission under General He Long conducted sports exchanges with the Soviet Union and eastern Europe.
During the Cultural Revolution, in 1966, China's national teams stopped training and withdrew from all international events.
In 1968, the commission was placed under the People's Liberation Army and General Lin Biao.
In 1970, China's national teams began competing again. The first major international event a Chinese team participated in since 1966 was the World Table Tennis Championship in Nagoya, Japan, which ultimately led to the ping-pong diplomacy with the United States.
In 1972, the commission was removed from PLA control. The commission was tasked with facilitating sports diplomacy. In 1974, it exchanged 172 groups of 3,200 athletes with eighty other countries, most of them in the Third World.
During the Deng era, the government increased its emphasis on winning international sporting competitions as part of its idea for a strong and more internationally-engaged in China. The State Sports Commission issued its "Olympic Model" in 1979, instructing each province to channel its sports programs toward the overall goal of winning in the Olympic games. In 1980, it issued the slogan "Break out of Asia, advance on the world" in an effort to spur China's participation in international sports.
In June 2017, due to improper "re-accommodation" of the chief coach Guoliang Liu, 4 players and 2 coaches in Chinese National Table Tennis Team declared to leave the 2017 ITTF World Tour Chinese Open.
List of directors NameChinese nameTook officeLeft officeHe LongNovember 1952January 1968Cao Cheng19681971Wang MengJuly 1971December 1974Zhuang ZedongDecember 1974February 1977Wang MengFebruary 1977August 1981Li MenghuaAugust 1981December 1988Wu ShaozuDecember 1988April 2000Yuan WeiminApril 2000December 2004Liu PengDecember 2004November 2016Gou ZhongwenNovember 2016July 2022Gao Zhidan29 July 2022present
See also Chinese sportspeople China at the Olympics China at the Paralympics Sport in Hong Kong Culture of China National Games of China National Peasants' Games 2008 Summer Olympics
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