The General Administration of Sport ( Chinese : 国家体育总局 ; pinyin : Guójiā Tǐyù Zǒngjú ) is the government agency responsible for sports in mainland China . It is subordinate to the State Council of the People's Republic of China . It also administers the All-China Sports Federation and Chinese Olympic Committee .
3-804: The agency is currently led by minister Gao Zhidan . In the 1950s, the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission under General He Long conducted sports exchanges with the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. During the Cultural Revolution , in 1966, China's national teams stopped training and withdrew from all international events. In 1968, the commission was placed under the People's Liberation Army and General Lin Biao . 1970, China's national teams began competing again. The first major international event
6-694: A Chinese team participated in since 1966 was the World Table Tennis Championship in Nagoya, Japan, which ultimately led to the ping-pong diplomacy with the United States. In 1972, the commission was removed from PLA control. The commission was tasked with facilitating sports diplomacy . In 1974, it exchanged 172 groups of 3,200 athletes with eighty other countries, most of them in the Third World . In June 2017, due to improper "re-accommodation" of
9-742: The chief coach Guoliang Liu, 4 players and 2 coaches in Chinese National Table Tennis Team declared to leave the 2017 ITTF World Tour Chinese Open. Gao Zhidan Gao Zhidan ( Chinese : 高志丹 ; pinyin : Gāo Zhìdān ; born January 1963) is a Chinese politician who is the current director of the State General Administration of Sports , in office since July 2022. Gao was born in Siping, Jilin , in January 1963. After graduating from Beijing Sport University in 1988, he
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