Yunnan: Increase funding support for football initiatives and promote school football nationwide

The General Office of the Yunnan Provincial People’s Government issued and distributed the “Notice on Issuing the Twenty Measures for Promoting the Revitalization of Yunnan Football.”

Among other things, it states that support for football work will be increased. In accordance with the requirements of zero-based budget management, and based on factors such as project reserves, budget execution, performance management, and taking into account the availability of annual fiscal resources as well as priorities by degree of urgency and importance, overall coordination will be carried out to provide funding support for football work by allocating welfare lottery public welfare funds and education special funds. The priority of the support funds will be to focus on building football youth training systems, developing reserve talent, organizing school football, organizing youth and social branded football events, and training football professional talent, among other areas.

Campus football will be comprehensively promoted. Each primary and secondary school should incorporate football into the overall framework for fostering moral character and character development and into its school development plan, use football as a teaching content for physical education classes, and include it in after-school extended-time services; widely conduct teaching and training activities for football programs, as well as campus competitions, and other activities. Each campus football-feature school should separately set up special funds for campus football, build at least one football pitch, and provide adequate equipment and facilities to meet the requirements for football teaching, training, and competitions. The arrangement of football courses shall not be less than one-third of the total class hours of physical education. For students in the third grade of primary school and above, establish class and grade representative teams, and generally establish school teams. School teams should train at least three times per week, hold campus football leagues within the school each year, and actively organize teams to participate in various youth football events within the province.