| In China's historical course of over-all construction of comfortably-off society, with the ever enriched social material wealth and increasing demand in people's mental life, the development is vigorous in leisure physical activities aimed to improve modern people's health and living quality. The mushrooming development in leisure sports in reality needs theoretical summery; practice needs theoretical guidance. In such a social background, an active research in leisure sports closely relevant to people's leisure life has a far-reaching strategic importance and extremely realistic significance to enriching socialist cultural construction and satisfying people's ever growing demands in leisure sporting life.By means of library research, survey and mathematical statistics, with townsmen's leisure physical activities as the point of penetration and based on the systematic review and arrangement of Chinese and overseas literature on leisure and leisure sports, a study is made on leisure sports theory and fairly well-off society's effects on the development in leisure sports; besides, an real evidence analysis is conducted on townsmen's leisure sports modes with the Pearl River Delta as an example, exploring countermeasures and suggestions for optimal developing modes for townsmen's leisure sports in well-to-do communities. Obtained in the research are:1. Leisure sports are a kind of people's leisure life mode voluntarily in form of physical activities in their spare time as well as the phenomena of various physical activities in such a leisure mode of life. Leisure sports have essential characters of amusement, timing, activity, autonomy and value.2. Leisure sports development is restricted by social production development conditions in different historical periods. The social change of fairly prosperous society, and the typical features manifested in the Pearl River delta--accelerating urbanization, townspeople's improving material living standard and rising requirements in spiritual life greatly affect people's sports life, the leisure function in sports have become still more obvious, and townspeople's leisure sports living mode is taking shape.3. Political, economical and cultural development in well-to-do society brings about fine change in leisure sports social environment. Relaxed leisure sports atmosphere, convenient installations and diversified activities etc. strengthen people's leisure sports consciousness, leisure sports behaviour becoming voluntary. Townspeople in the Pearl River delta universally have fine mental experience in and value evolution on participating in leisure physical activities, with a comparatively great demand for further improved leisure sports environment. Inhabitants'leisure sports consumption consciousness is relatively keen, practical leisure sports consumption behaviour is also springing up. Their leisure sports consumption behaviour is mainly manifested in the 3 aspects: material-, amusement/ enjoyment- and development-types.4. The principal influential variables for Pearl River delta townspeople's leisure sports living mode are sex, age, profession and income. Inhabitants'motivation for leisure physical activities is switching from homogenization to heterogeneity, shown in 4 types: sports for health, body building for joviality, cooperation-interpersonal interaction and kill-time, the former 2 types being prevalent at the present phase. Activity contents are characteristic of simplicity and easy feasibility, obvious game-playing and competitive nature, high value for keeping fit, salient regional features and vogue. Activity spaces are chiefly public sports-sites, chargeable sports fields and gymnasia, residential districts, parks, squares, units and people's own courtyards. Group activities are rising with playmates such as friends, family members, colleagues or schoolmates, whereas the proportion is descending in individual activities and activities with neighbours.5. The facility conditions in Pearl River delta townspeople's leisure physical activity sites take the lead in the whole country. Sporting site installment mode is rapidly developing from the original principal government investment to enterprise investment. The site modes for townspeople's participation in leisure physical activities are public-welfare-, semi-public-welfare- and marketing-types co-existent. The present Pearl River delta townspeople's leisure-sports organizations are of 3 modes: the government-predominant-, social-organization- and the inhabitants'self-behaviour-types, the first of which still shows fairly strong historical inertia, whereas the last displays quite prominent characteristics.6. Townsmen's optimized leisure sports developing modes in well-to-do society must stick with the value orientation to serve spiritual civilization construction; 3 approaches are chosen for leisure physical activities: development with innovation, innovation in completed facilities and service, and innovation in the organisation management system. As for development with innovation, traditional sports events should be invigorated, and newly risen events expanded to continually meet the people's ever growing need in leisure physical culture. As to completed facilities and service, the comprehensive developing mode taken should be the state predominating public sports facilities and service with the market depending special demands. And in terms of the organisation management system, a mixed developing mode of"superior-subordinate co-construction"should be adopted.
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