June 5438+October 2009 10, the State Council issued "Reply on Approving the Establishment of National Fitness Day", and established August 8 of each year as "National Fitness Day".
"Sports Day" is a social activity day with sports as the theme set up by a country or region according to the needs of society and people. It is initiated by a region or organization and has a wide range of activities, generally including: sports events, leisure and entertainment, sports culture lectures, health knowledge lectures or book fairs. The purpose is to promote national fitness, carry forward the spirit of sports and shape the sports culture of the organization or the region.
Origin of Sports Festival: In the late Qing Dynasty, due to the introduction of opium into China, Chinese people got into the bad habit of smoking opium, which led to listlessness and no desire to work all day, and the country turned from prosperity to decline, and finally went to extinction. Foreigners also deride China people as "the sick man of East Asia" and weak. After the Republic of China, the government changed the bad impression of foreigners on our people in order to promote the national movement. Therefore, in the 31st year of the Republic of China, the government designated September 9th as the Sports Festival.