Reimagining the Role of Traditional National Sports in Promoting a Healthy China on the New Journey

China has embarked on a new journey towards comprehensive nation-building in the context of socialist modernization,ushering in fresh guidance and a novel mission for traditional national sports to contribute to the development of a healthy China.This study employs research methodologies including literature analysis and logical analysis to delve into the new opportunities,challenges, issues, and initiatives that traditional national sports face as they contribute to the establishment of a healthy China on this new journey. The research suggests that the national strategic positioning, evolving health demands, emerging information technologies, and interdisciplinary integrated development offer new opportunities for traditional national sports on a new journey to build China into a modern socialist country. However, traditional national sports also encounter fresh challenges, such as adapting to China-style modernization, addressing limited proactive health awareness, and responding to shifts in population structure.Simultaneously, the study highlights new issues that need to be addressed, including the imperative to enhance the sports prescription system for traditional national sports, improve smart service capabilities,strengthen integrated development capacities,rectify imbalances in health service supply and demand, and further deepen the multifaceted collaborative development. Based on these findings, the study proposes measures and recommendations across five key areas: building a sports prescription system for traditional national sports, elevating the level of intelligent services, bolstering integrated development capabilities, creating a balanced structure for health service supply and demand, and fostering diversified collaborative development.