Sport for all has for a long time played an important role in improving human health quality, reshaping human character, advocating scientific spirit, promoting harmonious interpersonal relationship and developing healthy and civilized lifestyles. Sport for all has been combined with competitive sports to carry the profound meaning of the Olympic spirit. China is not only committed to developing competitive sports but also dedicated to proactively passing on the Beijing Olympic legacy and promoting broader dissemination of the Olympic spirit in China and worldwide through vigorous development of sport for all.

China is the most populous country and the most dynamic developing country in the world. Encouraging and leading people to actively participate in sport activities and improving public health are both a pressing need facing China in sustaining fast socioeconomic development in a balanced way, and a goal we strive consistently to achieve.

The Chinese people are sport-loving people and sport for all is a movement deeply entrenched in Chinese culture and traditions. The successful hosting of the Beijing Olympic Games has sparked tremendous enthusiasm among the 1.3 billion Chinese people. During the preparation of the Beijing Olympic Games, China launched the "Fitness for All and Be Part of the Olympics" event nationwide. In August 2009, China promulgated the Regulations Governing Fitness for All to safeguard the citizens' right to fitness and to advance the Fitness for All movement. In China, August 8 is the statutory "Fitness for All Day" aimed at encouraging people to actively participate in sport activities. At present, there are over 850,000 stadiums and gymnasiums, 176 national and provincial sport associations, 23 provincial sport for all service centers, 210,000 sport and fitness service stations and 3,092 teenager sport clubs across China. These figures will keep rising substantially in the near future. In addition, China has implemented the national physique monitoring system, physical exercise benchmark system and sport for all coaching system. We firmly believe that by hosting the 2011 World Conference on Sport for All, we will definitively be able to promote further development and dissemination of sport for all in China and make a positive contribution to the development of sport for all worldwide.

Beijing is an Olympic city full of vitality. With the help and support of the Olympic family, Beijing has successfully assimilated and accumulated the rich Olympic legacy, and now we are well positioned to remake history. As a direct extension of the three concepts of Beijing Olympic Games, "Humanistic Beijing, High-tech Beijing and Green Beijing” has become the long-term development strategy of the city. Turning Beijing into a world city as well as an international sport center is our new goal from a new starting point. The burgeoning of the sport for all movement has added more healthy and magnificent glamour to Beijing City. Currently, more than 60% of Beijing residents take an active part in various sport activities. Olympic venues not only belong to athletes but also bring benefits to thousands of ordinary citizens who love sports. The sport-loving Beijing people are earnestly looking forward to the Conference and would like to join hands with friends from all over the world to share their excitement and delight in sport for all, and the wonderful fruits of "Humanistic Beijing"!

The Chinese government has paid special attention to sport for all and actively promoted the development of sport for all in China. In particular, the Chinese government is dedicated to:

Developing the sport for all movement, preserving the sport for all enthusiasm sparked by the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games among the public, boosting public awareness (particularly teenager's awareness) of sport and fitness, making fitness for all a part of people’s life and improving the quality of public health;

Providing more and better sports and public services for the public, enabling everyone to share the fruits of sports development, enjoying the health and joy emanating from sports and developing healthy and civilized lifestyles;

Further improving and innovating sport for all administrations and mechanisms, with a focus on developing the fitness for all systems on national, regional, local and occupational levels;

Developing the sport for all movement and promoting sports-related consumption to boost socioeconomic growth and permeate comprehensive values and social benefits of sport for all through all facets of social life;

Vigorously disseminating the sport for all philosophy, carrying forward the Olympic spirit, making friends with people from all over the world, enhancing friendship beyond boundaries, promoting cross-cultural exchange on sport for all and boosting the sustainable development of the global sport for all movement.

Guided by the above goals, the Chinese Olympic Committee, General Administration of Sport of China, Beijing Municipal Government and local governments have originated a series of very practical sport for all events featuring broad participation and progressive advancement, and hence won public support across the country. Major events organized to date include:

Fitness for All and Be Part of the Olympics: During the course of preparation for the Beijing Olympic Games, China organized large-scale Fitness for All and Be Part of the Olympics event with far-reaching ramifications nationwide.

Fitness for All Day: In China, August 8 is the statutory "Fitness for All Day" on which Fitness for All events are organized nationwide.

Fitness for All Long March: was a nationwide fitness for all event that started from Beijing and reached 358 medium and large communities in 35 cities to provide scientific fitness guidance for 5 million community residents.

Fitness for All Expo, Sports & Fitness Exhibition, New Year's Day Mountain Climbing and New Year's Fitness Greetings, with distinctive local flavors.

Sunshine Sports Movement for Millions of Students Nationwide: is a movement seeking to ensure that teenagers spend at least one hour a day doing sport exercises at school. Hundreds of millions of farmers, women, workers and elder people are also encouraged to participate in fitness activities.

National Farmers' Games, Ethnic Minorities Sports Games, National Games for the People with Disabilities, Middle School Games, University Games (Universiade) and National Sports Congress.

Sport ability and physical quality assessment services are provided for the public.