The Historical Experience of the Development of China Artistic Gymnastics and Prospects for the New Era

Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, China's artistic gymnastics has made brilliant achievements and accumulated rich development experiences, mainly including: Training mechanism of the whole national system, vigorously implementing the opening-up to the outside world, paying attention to technical action innovation, a steady stream of gold medal coaches, “helping and guiding young people”, fully relying on the development paradigm of “the hometown of gymnastics”,attaching great importance to the training of all-round athlete leaders, excellent qualities of bearing hardships and perseverance,scientific and rigorous Olympic selection and preparation training, etc. At the same time, there are still many problems in the development of artistic gymnastics in China, mainly including: the development of male and female gymnastics events is unbalanced; lack of effective reinforcement on the weak events for a long time; the innovation ability of technical movements is greatly reduced; the peak period of athletes is short; the mass base is weak; and the brain drain of high-level coaches. Suggestions:We should thoroughly implement the concept of coordinated development and gradually get rid of the dependence on traditional path; increase the innovation of technical movements and enhance the core competitiveness; improve the level of scientific training so as to prolong the peak period of athletes; increase the publicity of artistic gymnastics in order to improve the public's recognition of the value of gymnastics; improve the traditional development mode to expand and consolidate the foundation of artistic gymnastics and talents.