A Study on Synergistic Coordination of Central-Local Policies on National Fitness Venues and Facilities from the Perspective of Relationship and Content

The synergistic coordination of central-local policies on national fitness venues and facilities is of great significance for implementing policies, achieving optimal policy effectiveness, and promoting coordinated development of public fitness services in urban and rural areas. This study constructs a “time-space-function-category-mode” framework from the perspectives of relationship coordination and content coordination of central-local policies. Through quantitative analysis using LDA topic modeling, it is found that in terms of relationship coordination, policy subjects in the Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and GuangdongHong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have the highest level of participation in fitness facility governance, while policy subjects in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the Chengdu-Chongqing dual-city economic circle need to enhance their participation.In terms of content coordination, fitness facility policy texts of different types and levels have their own characteristics, with a relatively high alignment in the dimension of “construction planning policies” but significant differences in the dimension of “operation and maintenance policies”. The study reveals that the coordination of central-local policies is constrained by factors such as the need to strengthen the role of top-level design in practice, the potential for exploring existing construction land in regions, the lack of a comprehensive regulatory system for multiple stakeholders, the need to increase the support of funding policies at the central and local levels, and the need to improve the effectiveness of regional operation and maintenance policies. Policy recommendations are proposed, including promoting the interaction between top-level design and practical exploration, integrating sports spaces with urban planning, advancing multi-party governance and comprehensive regulation, ensuring effective connection between policy support and funding, and adopting a dual approach of policy innovation and operational management to enhance the effectiveness of central-local policy coordination.