Research on Shanghai Sports Development Strategy under Population Structure Transition

This paper analyzed the influences of Shanghai's population structure transition on sports development strategy from age, gender, family, class and space. The following main conclusions were drawn: 1) the ageing of population required government to actively promote health promotion value of sports; 2) the shrinkage of young people's proportion required government to change training model of competitive sports reserve talents; 3) the relatively low life expectancy of male population required government to strengthen intervention in their sports participation; 4) the relatively high sex ratio at birth required government to pay attention to the sustainable development of female competitive sports; 5) the decline in family stability required government to strengthen family sports; 6) the increase of empty nesters required government to provide targeted public sports services for them; 7) the growing formation of olive-shaped stratum structure required government to activate middle-income groups' traction function of sports consumption; 8) the growth of new social class required government to pay attention to their sports participation; 9) the widening income gap between urban and rural residents required government to ensure provision of public sports services for rural residents; 10) the change in regional distribution of population required government to scientifically coordinate distribution of public sports resources.