Abstract: Local sports regulations are an important part of the sports legal system with Chinese characteristics.They are specific implementing rules or supplementary regulations formulated on the basis of central legislation and in accordance with the actual situation and needs of the region, in order to ensure the effective implementation of central legislation in the region. Legislative distinctiveness remains a core feature of local sports regulations. Using the legislative practices of the Taiyuan City Sports Development Ordinance as a case study, this research examines the foundational logic, identifies existing challenges, and proposes pathways for cultivating distinctiveness in local sports regulations. The study argues that this distinctiveness arises from three interconnected logics: jurisprudential logic (adherence to national legislative principles), practical logic (response to local sports reform demands), and value logic (fulfillment of local legislation’s functional significance). However, challenges persist, including misalignment between legislation and reform progress, systemic imbalances in regulatory frameworks, a lack of regional adaptability, and limited practical applicability. To address these issues, future efforts should prioritize defining legislative goals and functional orientations, adopting a “small-scope” legislative model to design innovative structures, standardizing legislative language, and ensuring efficacy through problem-driven prioritization of core issues, collaborative multi-stakeholder legislative processes, enhanced institutional support for local sports initiatives, and rigorous post-legislative evaluations.