Abstract: Based on eight copies of "The SHAPE of the Nation:Status of Physical Education in the USA" that were released in the United States in nearly 30 years, the study explored the current situation of physical education in primary and secondary schools from seven aspects of management, policy, curriculum, assessment, PE teacher, funding and physical activity. With the current situation of PE development in US, the inspirations from above were given to the PE in the schools of China, that is, to improve the management system of school physical education to stimulate the strength of social sports organizations; to promote the physical education curriculum standards to intensify the physical educational course development; to optimize the evaluation system of physical education learning to stress the students' physical literacy; to carry out the research on the positive effect to strengthen the cognition level of physical education; to carry out the continuous investigation of the status quo and regularly publish the research report; and to establish our country's situation of physical education with a dialectical view of foreign experience.