Developing Vietnamese physical education and sports in conjunction with socio-economic development and national defense

Physical education and sports play an important and direct role in improving health, enhancing physical strength and stature, preventing diseases, increasing longevity and quality of life of the people; creating and fostering healthy personality and lifestyle; contributing to community cohesion, socio -economic development, national defense and international integration.

Develop physical education and sports synchronously, both widely develop physical education and sports for everyone, focus on physicaleducation and sports in schools, and quickly create a breakthrough in high-performance sports, professional sports, soon approaching the continental and world level. [caption id="attachment_1263882" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Photo collection[/caption] Accelerate the process of innovating the management mechanism, organization methods, physical education and sports activities, in accordance with domestic conditions and situations and international trends, meeting the requirements of national development. Create a favorable environment to promote the development of sports economy; maximize the role of the non-public sector in most areas of physical education and sports activities. Along with tasks and solutions such as innovating and improving the quality of the Campaign "All people practice physical exercise following the example of great Uncle Ho" and effectively integrating with related strategies, programs, projects and movements, aiming for each person to regularly practice at least one sport suitable to the specific characteristics and conditions of the individual. Expand the network of grassroots sports institutions, strongly develop the number of sports clubs, public physical education and sports training locations. Effectively organize a network of grassroots sports instructors, exchange activities, and sports competitions in the community. Strengthen inter-sectoral coordination to organize physical education and sports activities for each group of workers, civil servants, farmers, youth, women, the elderly, etc. Strongly and synchronously innovate physical education and sports in schools, associated with the goal of comprehensive education in terms of knowledge, physical fitness, psychology and life skills. Strengthen the standardization of facilities, equipment, and teaching staff; have a plan to gradually implement investment in building swimming pools and multi-purpose gyms for general education institutions suitable to the specific conditions of each level and locality. Promote the connection between schools and sports facilities in physical education activities. Organize extracurricular sports activities in a personalized direction, suitable to the interests, psychology and age of students, focusing on swimming, traditional martial arts and some other suitable sports. Strongly develop various types of school sports and physical education clubs; strengthen training of sports talents right in schools. Promote and continue to innovate sports exchanges and competitions within and between schools, at all levels and in each locality. Continue to integrate the implementation of the overall project on physical development and stature of Vietnamese people in the period 2011 - 2030 with physical education and sports activities in schools; regularly review and evaluate physical indicators and stature of students to have sports interventions, gradually overcome the situation of overweight, stunted growth, and malnutrition. Improve the quality of the "Healthy Cadres and Soldiers" Movement and professional sports training and competition activities applied in the armed forces. Plan and strengthen the network of facilities and equipment for physical training and voluntary sports activities of cadres and soldiers. Develop sports clubs and improve the capacity of athlete training facilities in the armed forces. Preserve, develop and promote the value of traditional sports and folk games; develop recreational sports, adventure sports, sports associated with tourism and festivals in a diverse, unique and safe manner. Strengthen physical education and sports activities for people with disabilities; focus on training athletes with disabilities to participate in international sports congresses and competitions. Create conditions and support to continue promoting diverse physical education and sports activities suitable for the elderly. Continue to promote the effectiveness of physical education activities for disease prevention, treatment and national defense sports among the people. Prioritize resources and promote coordination to effectively implement programs, projects and policies to support the organization of physical education and sports activities in remote, isolated, border, island and ethnic minority areas. Complete the system of criteria for assessing physical strength and physical fitness and periodically organize surveys and assessments of the physical condition of the People. Urgently complete the grouping of sports, competition contents and athletes, ensuring that they are suitable to the strengths and conditions of our country and closely follow the world's trends, making an important contribution to the implementation of the above-mentioned goals and orientations; quickly develop appropriate and feasible mechanisms and policies on investment, resource mobilization, training, fostering, management, encouragement, care and treatment for each group of sports and athletes. Prioritize resources and invest in key and specialized areas for athletes capable of winning ASIAD and Olympic medals. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall specifically implement the grouping of sports and competition contents according to its functions, tasks and authority; Take charge of developing the Program for developing key sports to prepare for the Olympics and ASIAD in the coming period, and submit it to the Prime Minister in 2025. Upgrade, modernize and maximize the effectiveness of key facilities serving training, coaching, and organizing sports competitions managed by the central government and local, public security, and military athlete training facilities; soon form specialized training facilities by sport group. Connect and link training responsibilities between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and related sectors and localities. Encourage and create conditions for national sports associations and enterprises to participate in building and operating athlete training facilities; sponsor and finance talented sports teams and athletes. Promote innovation in athlete training, from innovating criteria and standards to processes and methods in selecting and training athletes; Focus on applying achievements, technical solutions, advanced and modern technology to improve training quality; equip high-tech training rooms at key athlete training facilities. Increase the arrangement of good coaches, experts, doctors, nutritionists, and psychologists for national teams and youth teams. Strongly develop professional sports, expand the application of professional management and operation mechanisms for appropriate sports. Especially encourage organizations and individuals to establish and operate professional sports clubs and organize professional sports competitions; form athlete training facilities operating according to the business model. Focus on political education, ideology, ethics, and behavioral culture for athletes, coaches, and referees. Honor and reward outstanding athletes and coaches, and promote their exemplary role in the younger generation. Strengthen care and improve policies and regimes for athletes and coaches, typically salaries, bonuses, honorary titles, insurance, medical care, injury treatment, study, employment (after retirement) and other related regimes, ensuring compliance with general policies and guidelines, while being commensurate with the specific characteristics of each sport and group of sports; pay attention to developing specific policies for female athletes. Expand cooperation and promote people-to-people exchange activities through physical education and sports; seek support in all aspects from countries, international organizations, foreign organizations and individuals, and overseas Vietnamese. Proactively participate in and promote Vietnam's role in bilateral and multilateral international forums on sports with the motto "Active and responsible member" of the international community. Maintain and strengthen close cooperation with countries that have traditional cooperation relations in physical education and sports, countries with developed sports in training, education, scientific research, sports medicine, technology transfer, expert exchange, training of officials, athletes, and coaches. Create conditions to promote cooperation between national sports federations and associations with corresponding international sports organizations. Along with training and retraining, fostering sports human resources to meet the requirements of international integration, developing a team of human resources capable of working professionally in an international environment; proactively nominate and introduce personnel to participate in international sports organizations. Strengthen connections with the overseas Vietnamese community and have policies to encourage and attract overseas Vietnamese sports talents to contribute to and dedicate to the country's sports. Proactively host international sports events; strive to host the ASIAD in the period 2031 - 2045 and cooperate with other countries in the Southeast Asian region to host large-scale international sporting events. [caption id="attachment_1263883" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Photo collection[/caption] Strengthening the introduction and promotion to the international community of Vietnam's traditional and national sports such as vovinam, traditional martial arts, shuttlecock kicking. Raising awareness among sectors, levels, localities and the whole society about the position, role and effect of physical education and sports in building Vietnamese people to develop comprehensively and for the sustainable development of the country. Creatively and effectively applying President Ho Chi Minh's thought "A strong people makes a prosperous country". Promoting and diversifying forms of propaganda and communication about the role and effect of physical education and sports activities in life, focusing on typical examples in physical education and sports; strengthening the dissemination of knowledge, training methods, nutrition and healthy lifestyles to gradually change social behavior, forming positive exercise habits, regular and lifelong physical training among the people. Strengthen communication on physical education and sports in schools to raise awareness of educational institutions, students and parents, considering physical education and sports activities as important educational and training measures to develop physical strength, stature, discipline and will, and mettle for the young generation, the future human resources of the country. Complete regulations on professional sports, high-performance sports, physical education and sports for everyone; physical education and sports in schools; physical education and sports for the elderly, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities and mountainous areas, remote areas, border areas, islands and in industrial parks and export processing zones; on promoting sports economy associated with ownership, transfer, copyright exploitation, sponsorship, sports betting, socialization mechanisms and resource mobilization in the field of physical education and sports.

Phuong Quang