On August 8, 2020, China celebrates the 12th National Physical Activity Day. The theme of this year’s event is “Promote the aptitude of all the people and contribute to the integral culmination of a society with modest prosperity”.
We must carry out a classified orientation from children, and raise the sports level and continuously carry out mass sports, and advance towards a powerful country in sports.
— February 6, 2014, Xi Jinping emphasized in a meeting with IOC President Thomas Bach in Sochi, Russia
I hope that your excellent achievements in this edition of the Youth Olympic Games can motivate young people across the country to play sports. They must strive both in study and in physical health, and have a comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physics and aesthetics to be useful people for the country.
— August 15, 2014, Xi Jinping pointed out when he visited the Chinese delegation of the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing
I am very happy to hear that you appreciate this opportunity and study hard while playing sports, as well as being actively involved in promoting public exercise activities.
— June 18, 2019, Xi Jinping replied to the letter from students of the Beijing Sports University champion group
One of the important goals that we host the Olympic Games is to drive accelerated advancement in winter sports and promote public exercise activities. The Beijing Winter Olympics will be a great boost to attract more people to winter sport, as well as being an important guide to this industry.
— January 23, 2017, Xi Jinping emphasized in Zhangjiakou in an inspection of the preparatory work for the 2022 Winter Olympics
We should develop the sports spirit and morality of the Chinese nation, promote the coordinated progress of the public, competitive sports and sports industry, and accelerate the construction of a powerful country in sports.
— February 1, 2019, Xi Jinping pointed out in Beijing at an inspection of the preparatory work for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
To realize the goal of a powerful country in sports, it is necessary to maintain the morale of the Chinese women’s volleyball team of the new era, and combine sports exercise with the health of the people, combine the maintenance of sports morale with consolidate confidence cultural, combining the mechanism of the country with that of the market, and following the original aspiration to create new achievements in sport.
— September 30, 2019, Xi Jinping emphasized in a meeting with the Chinese women’s volleyball team
It is necessary to promote the generalization of winter sports, raise the competitive level of these sports, accelerate the development of the winter sports industry, promote winter sports to the public and promote the health of the people.
— March 18, 2016, Xi Jinping emphasized upon hearing the report on the preparatory work for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
We take the 2022 Winter Olympics as an opportunity to promote the comprehensive development and balance of public and competitive sports, promote the cause of public physical exercise and improve the health of the people.
— August 27, 2017, Xi Jinping indicated in a meeting with IOC President Thomas Bach
There would be no comprehensive modestly affluent society without the health of the people. We must prioritize the health of the people and put it in a strategic position. Generalizing healthy life, improving health service, perfecting health guarantee, creating a healthy environment, developing the health industry are key points to accelerate the construction of a healthy China. It is necessary to ensure the health of all the people with effort in order to lay a solid foundation for the realization of the two centennial goals and the great revitalization of the Chinese nation.
— August 19-20, 2016, Xi Jinping said in his speech at the National Congress of Hygiene and Health
We take the 2022 Winter Olympics as an opportunity to promote the development of competitive sports, and to greatly boost public sports. We will materialize the objective of the health of all the people through national physical exercise, and thus materialize the integral construction of a moderately well-off society.
— January 18, 2017, Xi Jinping emphasized in a meeting with IOC President Thomas Bach at the Lausanne Olympic Museum
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