Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission ("NDRC") and the General Administration of Sport ("GAS") have jointly issued the Action Plan for Further Promoting Sports Consumption (2019-2020) (the "Plan").
According to the Plan, it is expected to have the people significantly improve their outlook on sports consumption and gradually get accustomed to sports consumption, make facilities for sports consumption much better, create a better environment for sports consumption, offer a wider range of sports consumption products and services, improve policies for sports consumption to be more thorough, and grow the total size of national sports consumption to CNY1.5 trillion. The Plan states that, attention will be paid to seven key tasks, including "diversifying patterns of sports consumption", "developing a concept for sports consumption", "upgrading skills in sports activities" and "expanding sports consumption space". Among others, the Plan expressly states that, prioritized support will be given to the development of fitness and leisure activities that are helpful to spurring consumption, and efforts will also be made to achieve progress in detailing and carrying out industry development plans for such sports activities as water sports, mountain and outdoors, air sports, automobile and motorcycle sports, and marathon, and to create new popular sports consumption fields.