General Administration of Sport of China (20221028162400)

The General Administration of Sport () is the government agency responsible for sports in

mainland China "Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territories within Greater China. ...

. It is subordinate to the

State Council of the People's Republic of China The State Council, constitutionally synonymous with the Central People's Government since 1954 (particularly in relation to local governments), is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China. It is chaired by the p ...

. It also administers the

All-China Sports Federation The All-China Sports Federation () is a national non-governmental, non-profit sports organization in China. It oversees a wide array of sports associations in the country. It is responsible to the State General Administration of Sports and the M ...

and

Chinese Olympic Committee The Chinese Olympic Committee (; IOC code: CHN) has been the officially designated body of the People's Republic of China (PRC) regarding the Olympic Games and other affiliated international sport federations since 1979, when the Nagoya Resolu ...

. The agency is currently led by minister

Gou Zhongwen Gou Zhongwen (; born 26 June 1957) is a Chinese politician who served as director of the State General Administration of Sports from 2016 to 2022. Biography Gou was born Zhenyuan County, Gansu province. He joined the Chinese Communist Party i ...

Functions

The administration is responsible for a number of areas. They are: # Creating a national sports framework # Providing development in the sports industry and promoting sports development in rural regions. # Promote physical activity and exercise participation in schools, regional and local communities. # Organizing athletic and national sports events # Enforcement of drug use and anti-competitive measures # Liaising and cooperating sports with

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

and

Chinese Taipei "Chinese Taipei" is the term used in various international organizations and tournaments for groups or delegations representing the Republic of China (ROC), a country commonly known as Taiwan. Due to the One-China principle stipulated by th ...

. # Organizing international sport events in China # Support and fund research into the development of sports # Implementing regulation governing the sports industry, market and best practice

Major events

(Need Expanding) *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.

Administration

The agency is organised into the following departments. * General Office * Sport for All Department * Competition and Training Department * Finance Department * Policy and Regulation Department * Personnel Department * External Affairs Department * Science and Education Department * Press and Publicity Department * Party Committee * Supervisory Bureau * Bureau of Retired Cadres

List of directors

* Marshal

He Long He Long (; March 22, 1896 – June 9, 1969) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and one of the ten marshals of the People's Liberation Army. He was from a poor rural family in Hunan, and his family was not able to provide him with any formal e ...

(, 1952–1967) *Cao Cheng (, 1968–1971) *Wang Meng (, 1971–1974) *

Zhuang Zedong Zhuang Zedong (Chuang Tse-tung; August 25, 1940 – February 10, 2013) was a Chinese table tennis player, three-time world men's singles champion and champion at numerous other table tennis events and a well-known political personality during ...

(, 1974–1977) *Wang Meng (, 1977–1981) *Li Menghua (, 1981–1988) *

Wu Shaozu Wu Shaozu (, April 1939 – September 18, 2012) was a Chinese politician and a major general of the People's Liberation Army. Wu was born in April 1939 in Leiyang, Hunan, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...

(, 1988–2000) *

Yuan Weimin Yuan Weimin (; born July 8, 1939 in Suzhou, Jiangsu) is a Chinese sports administrator and civil servant. He was the Executive President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Player career Yuan was selected to repr ...

(, 2000–2004) * Liu Peng (, 2004–2016) *

(, 2016–present)

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