In order to serve the national strategy, implement The Plan of Healthy China 2030, establish scientific ideas on body-building, improve the level of research in exercise promoting health and promote the integrated development of sports and medicine. BSU held the 3rd International Summit Forum on “Exercise and Healthy China 2030” on June10 – 11 on the 67th anniversary of the epigraph of “Promote physical culture and strengthen people's physique” made by comrade Mao Zedong. The theme of this forum was “Exercise, Nutrition and Health”. The forum was divided into one main meeting-place and four parallel sessions. The themes of these four parallel sessions were “scientific nutrition and sports performance”, “active exercise and health of teenagers”, “scientific exercise and prevention & treatment of tumors” and “Intelligence-led healthy exercise----Forum for Alumni with a Doctor’s Degree of BSU”. 20 famous experts from 6 countries and regions made 30 excellent reports at the main meeting-place and parallel sessions.
Professor Gao Feng, vice-president of BSU, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony saying that advancing the construction of Healthy China serves as an important foundation for building a moderately developed society in an all-round way and basic realization of socialist modernization, a national strategy for promoting the health of Chinese nation in an all-round way and realization of coordinated development of good health of the people and social economy, and also a major action for active participation in the global health governance and fulfilling the international commitment of The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development . Regarding scientific body-building and suitable exercise as the non-medical intervention for health based on the idea of “voluntary health” has already become an important means for promoting the health level. As the first batch of higher learning institutions in building the “double first-class” in our country, BSU has already shouldered 8 projects with the technological support from the government related to exercise promoting health from 1979 to the present, providing support for the release of “the national standard for the physical health of students” and “the national standard for physical exercise”. In March of this year, the key national R&D plan of “the research of key technologies for personal accurate instruction scheme in human exercise promoting health” in the charge of professor Hu Yang of our university was launched formally. The project will conduct research around the personal exercise prescriptions and its outcomes will be aimed to meet the demand of Healthy China and scientific body-building among the masses. They will be presented in the forms of guidance, norm and standard, database of exercise prescriptions, wearable smart testing equipment, and intelligent engine of exercise prescriptions, thesis and patent, large-scale technical research platform and demonstration base. It will definitely promote the building of Healthy China. Our university will continue to take serving the building of a country strong on sports and Healthy China as the mission in the future. We will give full play to our advantages in disciplines, talents and technology; and strengthen the theoretical research, education & teaching and social services in sport science, exercise rehabilitation, physical health and social sports through the methods of setting up a perfect discipline system and a sound cultivation mechanism, expanding exchange and cooperation; and construct a unique mechanism of driving the popularization of the nationwide fitness campaign by PE, promotion the health level of the whole nation under the guidance of scientific body-building and creating an atmosphere of the nationwide fitness campaign based on the publicity of sports.
The forum was hosted by Professor Liu Hui, Executive Dean of the China Exercise and Health Research Institute of BSU. A short video of “Scientific Fitness Guidance to Help Healthy China” in the forum, promoting the scientific concept and significance of sports for health based on the theme of precise exercise prescriptions.
At the opening ceremony, the opening ceremony of the “Exercise and Health Industry Committee” of the BSU alumni was held. To bring together the wisdom and strength of alumni in the exercise and health industry, promote the innovation and development of the exercise and health industry, build a platform for alumni exchange development, give full play to the role of alumni experts, and enhance the voice and influence of Beijing Sport University in the field of exercise and health, Beijing Sport University Alumni Association established the “Exercise and Health Industry Committee”. The committee is composed of volunteers from the BSU Alumni occupied in exercise and health industry such as sports human science, sports medicine, sports psychology, physical health, and integration of sports and medicine, and the secretariat of the committee is based at the School of Sport Science of Beijing Sport University.
After the opening ceremony, Zhao Wenhua, Deputy Director of the Institute of Nutrition and Health of CDC of China, gave a report of “Nutrition, Physical Activity and Health”, which kicked off the main forum. Later, Professor Fan Yanjun, Researcher of Maternal and Child Health Center of CDC of China, Professor Dan Benardot from Georgia State University, Professor Chia-Hua Kuo from Taipei City University, Professor Yang Zeyi from the CPT Exercise Health Nutrition Institute, Professor David A. Hood from York University, Canada, Professor John Ivy from the Sports Nutrition Institute of the University of Texas, Professor Zhang Jian from Institute of Nutrition and Health of CDC of China, and Associate Professor Jason Kai Wei LEE from National University of Singapore delivered wonderful speeches respectively on "Sports and Reproductive Health", "Athlete Nutrition Guidelines", "Prevention of Obesity and Management of Body Shape", "development and nutrition strategy of Sarcopenia of the Elderly, and “Impact of Nitric Oxide on Muscle Strength".
The forum adopted the form of online registration and free sharing, and a total of more than 500 experts, scholars and students engaged in the field of exercise and health gathered at BSU to exchange the latest research results and negotiate scientific and technological cooperation. The forum was held successfully, which is not only a grand meeting of academic exchanges, but also a vivid practice of implementing the strategic tasks of healthy China. Experts and scholars attending the conference spoke freely, exchanged ideas, brainstormed, and discussed in depth the major frontier issues of the deep integration of fitness for all and public health, in order to further establish the theoretical consciousness and academic consciousness of the academic circles of exercise and health, continue to enhance the sense of innovation, mission responsibility and responsibility to act, and constantly open up a new realm of deep integration of fitness for all and public health.