New Policies on the Examination and Enrollment of High-Level Sports Teams in China's Colleges and Universities: Conception Guidance, Realistic Concerns and Promotion Pathways

Guidance Opinions on Further Improving and Standardizing the Examination and Enrollment of High-level Sports Teams in Colleges and Universities issued by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and General Administration of Sport of China, aims to effectively promote the development of the construction of high-level sports teams in colleges and universities with significant changes in the examination and enrolment. In terms of conception guidance, China follows the new developments in the new era and searches the right positioning of running teams, implement the new development concept to promote the high-quality development. It stresses educational fairness during the whole process of the examination for enrolment. Furthermore, it deepens the integration of sport and education, and promotes the collaboration of departments, goal integration, and resource sharing. In terms of realistic concerns, the construction of high-level sports teams strives to return to the positioning of athlete students' training, serves the strategic needs of national competitive sports, and responds to the realistic demands of education equality, thus to improve the quality and efficiency of the team construction. The promotion strategies include the practical development of the integration of sport and education, the implementation of the "registration system" reform of high-level sports teams, the integration of the youth sports event system, the major construction of sports science in colleges and universities, the definite policy making cater for various sports, the good policy implementation as well as the practice wisdom at primary levels, etc.