{"id":328890,"date":"2025-12-05T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328890\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:58:08","slug":"china-eyes-olympic-glory-and-global-sporting-power-status-with-sweeping-basketball-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328890\/","title":{"rendered":"China eyes Olympic glory and global sporting power status with sweeping basketball reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">BEIJING: China has announced ambitious goals to further promote and develop basketball in the country following the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/east-asia\/nba-return-china-macau-games-2025-5396846\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA&#8217;s recent successful return<\/a> &#8211; which include prioritising talent, encouraging high\u2011quality foreign investment and also setting targets for its national teams to qualify for the 2028 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a statement released on Thursday (Dec 4), the General Administration of Sport of China (GASC) unveiled a series of guidelines and measures for provinces, municipalities and relevant associations, institutions and enterprises.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Efforts will focus on \u201cimproving youth, grassroots, and professional basketball\u201d while \u201cencouraging open competition\u201d and \u201cpromoting comprehensive development and pilot reforms\u201d, GASC said, also calling for high-quality foreign investment and overseas leagues and training institutions to establish operations in China.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It also set ambitious targets for Chinese national basketball teams. The men\u2019s team should ensure it qualifies for the 2028 Olympics Games and \u201cfeatures consistently\u201d by 2035, GASC said.<\/p>\n<p>The national women\u2019s team should reach \u201cworld-class status\u201d and national squads should \u201cadvance to international levels\u201d, it added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Long-term efforts will also focus on strengthening the youth basketball scene, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The number of Chinese youths playing basketball should also be \u201csignificantly improved and increased\u201d by 2030, GASC said, adding that Chinese basketball\u2019s global influence should also be greatly enhanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING: China has announced ambitious goals to further promote and develop basketball in the country following the\u00a0NBA&#8217;s recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,512,10109,23359,85],"class_list":["post-328890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-china","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-national-basketball-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}