| The mass sport is an important element contributing to the building-up of our social modernizations,whose development bears great significance in raising the overall national constitution of peoples of various nationalities and improving their living standards.In recent years,focusing on the reality of the mass sport being carried out in China,a great amount of experts and scholars have been making a lot of specialized researches and then gaining many findings.Even the General Administration of Sports alone has carried out two nationwide sample surveys, respectively in 1996 and 2000,aiming at getting the hold of the actual developing situations of the mass sport.Apart from that,many experts and scholars have also made a great deal of researches and surveys on the sport-participating situations of urban dwellers in various provinces and municipalities of China,which drew the similar conclusions complying with the local realities and characters there.The Tibetan nationality,the most populous minority in Qinghai province,is also the major dwellers in the towns of the pastoral areas there.The researches centered on the sports they participate have not been made yet.Those are still uncertain that whether their religious beliefs,holding or not,have any impacts on their health and in a real sense,what about their awareness of health.As a result,it is of necessity to carry out a thorough research about the sports partaken by the Tibetan urban dwellers of those areas.On the basis of documentary methods,survey-taking methods,expert-interviewing methods as well as statistics methods,this following research,taking the urban dwellers above sixteen in the six prefectures of Qinghai pastoral areas as objects,carried out their sport-taking reality.This research,making known their basic situations,actually targets in providing some scientific grounds for the authorities related on expanding the mass sport.The findings are shown as follow:1)The sports participators scarce and the structure unreasonable.It is concluded from the research that the ratio of the sports participators just amounts to 9.4%,much lower than the nationwide one—18.3%and that of the sport participators of minorities in the year 2000 which adds up to 11.5%.And among the 9.4%,there are 58.8%of persons having the associate degree or above;the proportions of the sport participators listed according to their career distributions shows a decline from management personnel,staff in the fields of science,education and culture and staff in other fields to other direct service-providing persons and workers.Besides,the number of job holders exceeds that of the free ones.As far as gender is concerned,it is clearly shown that the male outnumbers its counterpart and if take the element of age into account,we will face a tendency so-called"crazy or frozen".2)The majority of the Tibetan urban dwellers in Qinghai pastoral areas maintain,in their dally life,many religious customs originated from the Tibetan Buddhism.However,it is not playing an important role in impacting on the longevity of the local dwellers and the sports they participate.3).The number of the Tibetan urban dwellers in Qinghai pastoral areas,who participate in the sports,is large.The major sports activities they choose are jogging, running,ball games,namely basketball,volleyball and football,as well as the Tibetan dances instead of the traditional Tibetan sports.Usually they choose to do these sports in places of vicinity where are convenient and inexpensive.As far as the sporting time is concerned,the Tibetans mainly have their sports activities done in the early mornings,with some supplements in the late mornings,afternoons and evenings.The individual exercise is the main way of participating sports with a low degree of organization.4).The Tibetan urban dwellers in Qinghai pastoral areas have an imperfect view on the healthy condition and do not fully realize the benefits of sports,because of the lack of social physical guides,every 5700 persons sharing only one social physical guide on average.5).The consuming fees spent on sports by the Tibetan urban dwellers are of a small amount,only 93.8 yuan per person yearly.6).Several factors seriously impact the development of the sport activities in the Qinghai pastoral urban areas usually including the shortage of the sport grounds and apparatus of those areas,few mass sports organized by the local authorities concerned as well as the insufficient publicity of the knowledge and policies about sports.Several suggestions can be adopted concerning the sports condition of the Tibetan urban dwellers,1.The governments at all levels and the authorities concerned in Qinghai province should attach great importance to the mass sports taken by the urban dwellers in the pastoral area,offering them the necessary sports apparatus,spreading the national policies,rules and knowledge on sports among them,especially,laying focus on improving the health awareness of the female citizens and senior people.2.The governments at all levels and the authorities concerned in Qinghai province should pay special attention to improving the education background of the urban dwellers in pastoral areas.To enhance the education quality of the Tibetans is also a way to raise the members who take sports activities.3.The governments at all levels and the authorities concerned in Qinghai province should organize mass sports as much as possible,open the stadiums to the masses at a low price or freely to make full use of them, broaden the utility of the sports apparatus in schools and units,as well as train sports guides as many as possible.4.The governments at all levels in Qinghai province and departments concerned should organize the professional researchers to learn how to introduce the Tibetan traditional sports into the life of the urban dwellers quickly.Moreover,it should also be studied how to change the negative living customs and habits in the daily life of the Tibetan urban dwellers in the pastoral areas to improve their life standards.
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