Abstract: As the core component of sport, competitive sport reflects China's development path from its standing up, getting rich to becoming strong.Simply put, its achievements embody the superiority of China's socialist system and its self-confidence in the system.The transformation of its development strategy reflects the changes in the country's main social contradictions.Its reform shows the process of reform and opening up as well as the comprehensive deepening of the reform.The image of Chinese elite athletes shows the national image and spirit of the age.The new era endows the competitive sport with historical mission and responsibility.They include completing and developing the national system of competitive sport in the new era, forming a new mechanism of gathering resources to achieve great achievements under the conditions of socialist market economy, cultivating to shape a healthy concept on gold medal compatible with a sport power, and improving the level of competitive sport to make it better, faster, higher and stronger.