Discussion On Sports Associations In China

In China, administrative department on sports being in the planned economy system once owned "boundless power", taking responsibilities on all sports issues in society. From reforming and opening, on the foundation of "old" power structure and management system, several reforms in administrative department on sports were only confined to cut down and merge sports organizations simply rather than touch state-society relations fundamentally. For example, the reform in 1988 was also carried on during the procession of deepened reform in economy and incomplete accomplishment of marketing economy, meanwhile, power relations, functional objectives between administrative department on sports and society were changeable from start to finish. In this situation, reform in sports associations has to make its power circulated inside system with the result that its objectives are hard to achieve Consequently, sports associations fall down as accessories of government organizations.The main methods: documents reading, investigating, contrasting, inducing & deducing and interviewing etc.The major conclusions: innate character of sports presents weakness in contrast with powerfulness in non-innate character. Characters like " umbrella-shape assimilation". "medium organization". "resources difference". "functions dislocation", "confliction of rationality and legitimacy ". "objective being regarded as official achievement" and "horizontal contact close" are outcomes of assimilation of sports association and government Assimilation of sports association and government. Chinese traditional culture and planned economy gave birth to a special sports association system with historical rationality, which made sports in China exceed situation of conflicts between state and society following by resources shortage. In new era, the "old" system gradually reveals drawbacks of restricting sports development; on the one hand, sports associations in "'old system" satisfied centralization of state power, on the other hand, it tied up itself. Sports associations' reform is the inevitable choice of marketing economy and social development. Its significances are not only harmony and development in sports but also coordination with the whole society. Reform means realizing functions of micro management and service in sports; it means forming common "good governance" by state and society on sports; it means satisfying cultural desire of plural groups after social differentiation; lastly, it means forming pressure on administrative department as "social restriction".Sports associations reform needs impetus from "interior demand", pressure from "exterior necessity" and environment from "possibility" given by transformation of state-society. Under suitable environment, join forces coming from impetus and pressure will facilitate fundamental transformation of sports associations system in China. In brief, if sports associations want realizing reform from "nun-power form" to " powerful form and from "appending form" to "independent form", they must pass though the route of developing independently , improving themselves, developing civil society, making social supervision perfect and reforming law system.