Zhang Jiasheng Inspects Guangxi Football Youth Training & Championship Launch

Recently, the National Sports General Administration’s deputy director Zhang Jia’s winning rate research team went to Nanning and Guilin cities in Guangxi to investigate football youth training work, and attended the opening ceremony of the 2025 “National Fitness and Healthy China” National County Football Championship held in Guilin. Lan Xiao, Vice Chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, accompanied the investigation in Nanning, and Huang Jianfeng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Autonomous Region Sports Bureau, accompanied the entire process.

The research team took a group photo with the young female football players of Nanning Qionglin School

During their stay in Guangxi, the research team visited training bases and football-specific schools such as Nanning Qionglin School, Nanning Sports School, Nanning Lining Sports Park, Guilin Yaotou Central School, and Guilin No. 1 Middle School to conduct on-site inspections of the construction of the Guangxi Football Youth Training Center and the organization of the Youth Football League Guilin Division. They also held discussions with representatives of the seventh meeting of the Second Council of the China Football Development Foundation in Guilin. Zhang Jiasheng learned in detail about Guangxi’s specific measures and phased results in the construction of the football youth training system, the construction of the coaching team, the selection and training of young players, the utilization of training facilities, and the practice of integrating sports and education. He had cordial exchanges with local sports departments, educational institutions, youth training coaches and young players. He fully affirmed Guangxi’s ideas and enthusiasm for promoting football youth training based on local conditions and adapting to local conditions. He especially affirmed the achievements Guangxi has made in recent years in popularizing football and tapping the potential of football in ethnic minority areas. The research team emphasized that youth training is the foundation for the development of football. It is necessary to continue to improve the scientific selection and training system, strengthen professional and systematic training, focus on players’ cultural education and personality shaping, smooth the growth channels for young football talents, and lay a solid foundation for the long-term development of Chinese football.

The research team attended the opening ceremony of the 2025 “National Fitness and Healthy China” National County Football Championship in Guilin. This event is an important platform to promote football to the grassroots and stimulate the vitality of county football. It has attracted the participation of many county teams across the country. The atmosphere was warm and full of vitality and passion for national fitness. Zhang Jiasheng pointed out during the survey that the “National Fitness and Healthy China” National County Football Championship is a concrete practice to implement the national fitness strategy and promote the construction of a healthy China. It is also an important window to showcase the style of grassroots football and promote the development of the regional sports industry. The event not only provides a platform for football enthusiasts to compete in skills and enhance exchanges, but is also of great significance to cultivating grassroots football culture, improving the social football competition system, and discovering and transporting reserve talents. He hopes that all participating teams will play with style and level, and jointly present a wonderful, civilized and safe football event. At the same time, we must take the event as an opportunity to continue to deepen the integration of sports, education, and sports and tourism, so that football can play a greater role in promoting the physical and mental health of the masses, enriching grassroots cultural life, and serving rural revitalization.

Huang Jianfeng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Sports Bureau of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, welcomed and thanked the research team for their arrival, and comprehensively introduced the five major actions being implemented in Guangxi to revitalize and develop football, namely, the action to build the foundation of youth training, the action to win glory for women’s football, the ASEAN heart-warming action, the action to improve the quality of winter training, and the action to eliminate social conduct and discipline, to systematically promote the revitalization and development of football in Guangxi and strive to create a new situation for football in Guangxi.

The on-site guidance of the research team of the State Sports General Administration has pointed out the direction for promoting the development of youth football in Guangxi and promoting the quality, efficiency and innovative development of youth training. It has also injected new impetus into the vigorous development of county football events across the country. It will further promote the popularization of football, actively create a social atmosphere for national fitness, and contribute new strength to accelerating the construction of a strong sports country and a healthy China.