Research On The Minoirty College Students Physical Fitness And Exercise In South Xinjiang

The fourth plenary session of the communist party of China was held inSeptember16th,2004,in which it proposed a new idea that is establishing aharmonious society.Establishing a harmonious society,however, must startwith an all-round development of man. Doing physical exercise is anindispensable way to be all-round development person. In1995,“NationalFitness Program” was published on June,20th.On National Day of the2009,the State Council National issued the National Health Regulations and theNational Fitness Day. All of these try to tell people physical exercise playing animportant role in keeping fit. The school sport is the foundation of nationalsport, which is the main force of carrying the National fitness program out.Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region lies in the border area of northwest ofChina. The body-building exercise on the basis of sports can increase thechance of communication among all ethnic groups which may improve theaffection between each group. The present thesis mainly focuses on theinvestigating the fitness situation of minority students in south Xinjiang andanalyzing the present-day problem in fitness keeping. According to theinvestigation and analysis, some suggestions come out in order to provide somefundamental evidences which are good for the further study.The research findings present that most students are very interested insports. Most of students, however, take part in the physical exercise below lessthan three times per week because of some special reasons. Both the male andfemale students like to play volleyball. Besides, male students tend to playfootball or basketball while female students are more likely to play badmintonor doing some aerobics dancing. Most minority students tells that they not oftenplay with Han students.Moreover,most monority students said that they are notvery willing to do phhysical exercise with Han students,which shows that thereis lack of ethnic identity.The Motivation of minority students to participate in physical activitiesvaries from person to person. Most of them take physical exercise as a way offitness keeping or entertainment.The investigation shows that Sports facilitiesdeficiency, lack of the communication between the teacher and students, badfitness atmosphere and not enough fitness propaganda are the main factors which affect south Xinjiang minority students participating in sports activities.