Review and Future Analysis of Sports Discipline Construction Study in 40 Years Since the Promulgation of Regulations on Academic Degrees of the People’s Republic of China

In order to understand the development of sports discipline construction policy and academic research in China, using the methods of literature survey, expert interview and logic analysis, the study identified the development stages of sports discipline construction in 40 years since the promulgation of the Regulations on Academic Degrees of the People's Republic of China, and reviewed and commented on related policy and literature. The result shows that 40 years of sports discipline construction has experienced three stages of standard development under the guidance of “Academic Degree Regulation”, vigorous development under the guidance of scientific research, high-level development with the construction of “double top universities”. In the past40 years, the research findings of sports discipline construction are increasing. It had entered papers rapid publishing period since2005, and reached top in 2011, then kept stable afterwards. More and more high level programs such as “The National Social Science Fund of China” were approved. The researches mainly focused on “the nature of sports discipline”, “sports discipline structure and system building”, “sports discipline development status and future”, etc. With various perspectives, the researches improved the development of sports discipline in China. Meanwhile, the paper analyzed the problems and deficiencies of the researches of sport discipline construction:(1) The researches attached importance to the concept of sports discipline to the neglect of the connotation of discipline construction;(2) the researches attached importance to the theory discussion to the neglect of empirical analysis;(3) the researches attached importance to international experience reference to the neglect of domestic development research;(4) the researches attached importance to the inner-system restructure to the neglect of researches on system and mechanism;(5) the researches attached importance to internal cause to the neglect the external cause of the sports discipline construction. The study suggests that:(1) We should enhance the knowledge production and innovation of sports discipline, and continuously promote reasonable discipline construction;(2) we should strengthen the self-organized research, and continuously promote discipline organization construction;(3) we should continuously insist demand-oriented discipline construction.