Challenges and Prosepct: Integrating Sports and Education to Promote the Healthy Development of Youth

The establishment of the national system for competitive sports in new China and the goldmedal-oriented sports keep sports away from students while the examination-oriented education keeps students away from sports.The issues including the combination of sports and physical education as well as the integration of sports and education are explored to promote the healthy development of teenagers, trying to find out the problems of the relasionships between the two.It is believed that the 35 years' exploration of the combination of sports and physical education has yet not established a competitive training system which is in line with the good combination of the two, and the "contradiction between studing and training" has not been really solved.The strategies to promote the healthy development of youth by the integration of sports and edcation in the new era is put forward as follows:to strengthen the school physical education to lay a solid foundation for the healthy development of teenagers; to deepen the integration of sports and physical education to promote the coordinated development of young people's academic learning and physical exercises; to improve the system of youth sports competitions to get through the core node of integration of sports and education; to strengthen the construction of sports schools, schools with sports characteristics and high-level sports teams in universities to help "today's stars" become "tomorrow's leaders"; and to encourage the participation of social sports organizations to build a governance system for youth with multiple inputs.