Recently, a youth football match was held in Shinan District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province. Yang Yuqing, a student from Qingdao Experimental Junior High School, performed outstandingly, winning widespread acclaim with his brilliant steals and passes. Previously, he participated in the Shandong Youth Campus Football League and the National Youth Campus Football Summer Camp, and was selected for the best team of the summer camp. Yang Yuqing's growth story is not an isolated case. With the increasing attention from all sectors of society to youth sports work, more high-quality youth sports events have emerged one after another, allowing more children to understand the charm of sports and enjoy the fun of sports. The sports and education departments in various regions cooperate and strengthen relevant designs, optimize resource allocation, and promote the steady improvement of young people's sports literacy, laying a solid foundation for the construction of a healthy China and a sports powerhouse. A more scientific training model has entered the Hubei Tennis School located in Jingshan City, Hubei Province. The sound of hitting the ball is "bang bang", and students are practicing swinging under the guidance of their coach. Besides attending classes, students are required to engage in 2 to 5 hours of tennis training every day Zhu Dingzhu, Vice President of Hubei Tennis School (Jingshan), introduced that the school was founded in 2018 and is jointly built by the Hubei Provincial Sports Bureau and the Jingshan Municipal People's Government. It is a nine-year integrated school with more than 400 students. Why did the Provincial Tennis School settle in Jingshan? In 1986, the first tennis team was established in Jingshan. The tennis hardware facilities and public base here are relatively good, "said Gao Bao, deputy director of the Jingshan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism. Jingshan currently has more than 340 standard tennis courts and 17 tennis clubs, with more than 100000 people participating in tennis sports year-round. Jingshan City selects young talents through activities such as children's tennis training. We have formed a scientific training model that integrates sports and education, emphasizes both learning and training, and excels in both culture and sports, "said Zhu Guohong, a member of the Party Committee of the Education Bureau of Jingshan City. Currently, Jingshan City has built 12" Tennis+N "sports and education integration pilot demonstration schools, opening up the channel for tennis sports talents to further their education and cultivating more talents. Zhu Guohong introduced that Jingshan City also carries out activities such as bringing tennis to schools, communities, and rural areas, and further promotes tennis through establishing teaching consortia and sending teachers to rural areas. We offer tennis classes in both primary and secondary schools, and students are required to attend at least one tennis class per week Gao Bao introduced that some schools with conditions will hire professional coaches to provide more professional guidance for teenagers. At present, Jingshan City has achieved a 100% enrollment rate for school tennis classes and a 100% formation rate for tennis school teams. In mid October, the basketball competition of the 2024 Chengdu Youth (Student) Games kicked off, attracting 148 teams and approximately 3500 young people to participate. The team members' clever passing and excellent cooperation won rounds of applause. The relevant person in charge of Chengdu Sports Bureau introduced that the hot development of basketball is a microcosm of Chengdu's promotion of high-quality development of youth sports. In recent years, Chengdu has focused on increasing the construction of sports infrastructure and building a "15 minute fitness circle", allowing young people to easily find sports venues even after leaving school. Walking into the Phoenix Mountain Sports Park National Fitness Center in Chengdu, you can see citizens participating in sports exercise everywhere, and many teenagers make plans to play ball and run here. After the Chengdu Universiade, 49 sports venues will be gradually classified and opened according to the principle of "one venue, one policy", providing convenience for young people to participate in sports and further stimulating their enthusiasm for participation. At the same time, Chengdu is promoting the construction of projects such as "Community Sports Corner" and "Tianfu Greenway Fitness New Space" to continuously meet the growing fitness needs of young people and other groups. As of now, Chengdu has built 31 sports parks that meet provincial and above standards, constructed 17000 national fitness paths, 296 community sports corners, and 621 new green fitness spaces. More than 1700 sports facilities have been implanted in the Tianfu Greenway, and the city has 68000 sports venues and facilities. On the greenway, teenagers ride freely with the company of their parents, leaving behind bursts of laughter; In the community sports corner, children come back from school and run freely in groups of three or five... More and more teenagers are developing exercise habits, finding sports hobbies, and laying a healthy foundation for a better future. A more complete competition system. Qingdao Experimental Junior High School, where Yang Yuqing is located, is a national youth campus football characteristic school. It not only sets up class leagues, but also hires professional football coaches. With the continuous development of campus football, Yang Yuqing has participated in more and more matches, and her level is constantly improving. This month, he will go to Spain to participate in trials for football clubs such as Real Madrid. High quality training and competition are important foundations for the development of youth football. Shandong focuses on innovating and optimizing the campus football competition system, with various levels of competitions interconnected and complementary to each other, forming a multi subject and multi-level structure of schools, urban areas, and social clubs Zhang Zhiyong, Director of Shandong Campus Football Development Research Center, introduced. Li Xiang, a physical education teacher at Qingdao Experimental Junior High School, has been leading a team to participate in competitions recently. He said, "Due to the rich variety of events, children have many opportunities to exercise and perform." Building a sound talent development platform and growth channel is the key to the success of good seedlings. Chen Xinyu is a student at Guzhai Primary School in Weihai City. Previously, we were worried that playing football would affect our children's academic performance, but later we realized that training hardly took up classroom time, which dispelled our doubts. When our children went out to play, the school even arranged for teachers to help make up for the missed classes, "said Chen Xinyu's father Chen Ning." The school hired a professional football coach, and we don't have to spend extra money. "In 2023, Chen Xinyu was selected for the U11 (under 11 years old) team of Luneng Football School through trial training. Football dreams continue to grow in the hearts of young people. Where is the future path for children to develop by practicing sports? What jobs can professional athletes pursue if their career path is blocked? The subsequent development of sports talents is a concern for many parents. There are currently about 2500 characteristic schools recognized by the Ministry of Education in Shandong Province. Even if children do not pursue a career as professional players in the future, they can become applied talents such as coaches, referees, and managers Wang Guilong, Director of the Sports Health and Art Education Department of the Education Department of Shandong Province, said, "We have also opened football majors in some universities, taking the lead in piloting the '3+4' campus football talent training between sports schools and universities." In the view of Professor Zhong Bingshu from the Capital Institute of Physical Education, the education system and sports system should work together to enrich the development channels of sports talents. From the perspective of the education system, more and more universities are establishing sports training related majors, and some universities also offer physical education majors, providing more options for young athletes to further their education. In terms of the sports system, the General Administration of Sport of China has issued multiple policies in recent years to assist athletes in their retirement and transformation. Multiple regions have successively introduced supporting policies to facilitate the transition of retired athletes to school coaches and physical education teachers, enabling them to achieve new success in the "new arena". (New Society)