General Administration of Sport of China

The General Administration of Sport is the government agency responsible for sports in mainland China. It is subordinate to the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It also administers the All-China Sports Federation and Chinese Olympic Committee.

The agency is currently led by minister Gao Zhidan.

Functions
The administration is responsible for a number of areas. They are:


 * 1) Creating a national sports framework
 * 2) Providing development in the sports industry and promoting sports development in rural regions.
 * 3) Promote physical activity and exercise participation in schools, regional and local communities.
 * 4) Organizing athletic and national sports events
 * 5) Enforcement of drug use and anti-competitive measures
 * 6) Liaising and cooperating sports with Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese Taipei.
 * 7) Organizing international sport events in China
 * 8) Support and fund research into the development of sports
 * 9) Implementing regulation governing the sports industry, market and best practice

History
In the 1950s, the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission under General He Long conducted sports exchanges with the Soviet Union and eastern Europe.

During the Cultural Revolution, in 1966, China's national teams stopped training and withdrew from all international events.

In 1968, the commission was placed under the People's Liberation Army and General Lin Biao.

1970, China's national teams began competing again. The first major international event a Chinese team participated in since 1966 was the World Table Tennis Championship in Nagoya, Japan, which ultimately led to the ping-pong diplomacy with the United States.

In 1972, the commission was removed from PLA control. The commission was tasked with facilitating sports diplomacy. In 1974, it exchanged 172 groups of 3,200 athletes with eighty other countries, most of them in the Third World.

(Need Expanding)
 * June 2017, due to improper "re-accommodation" of the chief coach Guoliang Liu, 4 players and 2 coaches in Chinese National Table Tennis Team declared to leave the 2017 ITTF World Tour Chinese Open.

Administration
The agency is organised into the following departments.


 * General Office
 * Sport for All Department
 * Competition and Training Department
 * Finance Department
 * Policy and Regulation Department
 * Personnel Department
 * External Affairs Department
 * Science and Education Department
 * Press and Publicity Department
 * Party Committee
 * Supervisory Bureau
 * Bureau of Retired Cadres