General Administration of Sport of China

The General Administration of Sport (Chinese: 国家体育总局; pinyin: Guójiā Tǐyù Zǒngjú) is the government agency responsible for sports in China. It is subordinate to the State Council of China. It also administers the All-China Sports Federation and Chinese Olympic Committee.

The agency is currently led by minister Gao Zhidan.

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.

In 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.

In 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.

List of directors

Name	Chinese name	Took office	Left office
He Long	贺龙	November 1952	January 1968
Cao Cheng	曹诚	1968	1971
Wang Meng	王猛	July 1971	December 1974
Zhuang Zedong	庄则栋	December 1974	February 1977
Wang Meng	王猛	February 1977	August 1981
Li Menghua	李梦华	August 1981	December 1988
Wu Shaozu	伍绍祖	December 1988	April 2000
Yuan Weimin	袁伟民	April 2000	December 2004
Liu Peng	刘鹏	December 2004	November 2016
Gou Zhongwen	苟仲文	November 2016	July 2022
Gao Zhidan	高志丹	29 July 2022	present

External links

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