Community Environment and Physical Exercise:An Empirical Analysis Based on CLDS2018

The participation level of mass sports is one of the important indexes to measure the sports power and is an important measure to improve people's health and implement the Healthy China Strategy. The existing research mostly explores the influencing factors of physical exercise from the individual perspective, and pays less attention to the influence of community environmental factors. Based on the community environment, this paper uses national survey data to empirically test the impact of the community environment on the physical exercise of urban labor in China. The study found that the community environment has a significant impact on physical exercise, but different community environmental factors have different impacts: 1) Neighborhood relationship,exercise atmosphere, community sports organization have positive and significant impacts on whether or not to participate in physical exercise, while sports venues has no significant effect; 2) neighborhood relationship, exercise atmosphere, sports venues and community sports organization have significant positive effects on frequency of physical exercise; 3) exercise atmosphere,sports venues have a significant positive impact on time of physical exercise, others had no significant effect; 4) neighborhood relationship has a significant positive impact while exercise atmosphere has a significant negative impact on intensity of physical exercise, and others effects are not significant.