The Characteristics Of Sports Population And Its Contributing Factors In Fuzhou, Xiamen And Sanming

Drawing on data from a National Constitution Survey in 2005 that consisted of people ranging from 20 to 69 in Fuzhou, Xiamen and Sanming, Fujian, this paper is intended to offer some valuable reference for setting up mass-sport promotion program and policies to Fujian municipal government. In order to make it, this paper tries to find out the factors that contribute to the forming of sports population and to offer some promotion strategies to develop sports population through an analysis of the structure, sports variety, and way of life of the sports population by using literature, questionnaire, statistics and logical analysis and comparison.Our present study shows that the sports population in the three cities in Fujian, with the ratio of 16.96%, is agedness-oriented with walking its favorite exercise but its sex ratio and standard of literary is superior to the sports population in China. Compared with the non-sports population, the sports population has plentiful time for sports, most of which are non-smokers. But it's not encouraging when we make a comparison of its period of time for walking and sitting. From the logistic analysis, we can see what is discouraging to the forming of sports population is that people, a great majority in husbandry and fishery, spend too much of their time on their job and housework while what is encouraging is that exercising helps treat or prevent disease and illness and keep people fit.After exploring the characteristics of the sports population in the three citiesin Fujian, the present paper ventures to make some constructive suggestions for developing Fujian mass sports as follows: improving exercising awareness, enacting corresponding regulations, developing scientific and systematic exercising techniques, involving more females and rural people in exercising, enhancing physical education in working places and communities.