The Historical Background and Practical Significance of the Integration of Sports and Education

The essence of the integration of sports and education is to put the sports talents training into the system of national education. Since the founding of the new China, the development of both education and sports has experienced three progressive stages: The cooperation of sports and education, the combination of sports and education, and the integration of sports and education. In the stage of the cooperation of sports and education, both sides of education and sports regarded“enhancing people's physical fitness”as their common goal, which formed the“golden time”of mass(school) sports development in China. In the stage of combination of sports and education, the value of gold medals in competitive sports was emphasized. On the one hand, the strategy of using national concentrated efforts and resources to win the gold medals was enhanced, while the knowledge learning was seriously ignored in the athletes training. On the other hand, due to the neglect of the goal of“strengthening people's physique”, and the students; growth evaluation system overemphasizes the achievements of cultural courses and ignores the problems of sports and physique, which leads to the passive situation of weakening the general physique of“gold medal power”.With the development of China's sports and education in the new era, the most direct problem to be solved is to strengthen the physical fitness of adolescents and to optimize the talents structure of competitive sports. Therefore, we should combine the theme of“combination of sports and education”and“combination of sports and education”to form“integration of sports and education”. At the same time, we should focus on the implementation of the“three big balls”, grasp the key links of teaching, hard training and regular competition, and strive to cultivate high-level sports talents while promoting the all-round development of human beings.