Shanghai Administration of Sports

(09/19/2007)

Main Duties:
1. to carry out guidelines, policies, laws, rules and regulations concerning sports; to study to draw up the drafts of local rules, regulations, and policies concerning sports in the light of the actual circumstances of this Municipality, and organize the implementation of relevant rules, regulations, and policies;
2. to formulate this Municipality’s development strategy and targets of sports; to direct and push forward the reform of sports system; to draw up the development planning and plans of this Municipality’s sports undertakings, and organize relevant implementation;
3. to direct and inspect the district/county’s work on sports; to push forward nation-wide body-building plan, and direct the initiation of masses’sports activities; to be responsible for the implementation of national standards for physical training; to organize and direct the survey and determination of national people’s constitution;
4. to be responsible for the overall planning of the setup and major layout of this Municipality’s sports events and games; to study and direct the construction of the contingents of outstanding athletes, amateur training, and the work of combining sports with education; to carry out the absorption of and arrange the placement of outstanding athletes in cooperation with relevant departments; to strengthen the ideological and political work of the athletes contingent;
5. to be responsible for the formulation of sports competition system, and direct and coordinate the work of sports competition; to be responsible for the reporting and registration work of sports competition at the level of trans-district, trans-county, municipal and above;
6. to be responsible for the drawing-up of the planning of scientific and technological research and education of sports; to organize the brainstorm of major scientific and technological research in the field of physical culture, and the spread of the research achievements; to organize the anti-doping work;
7. to cooperate with relevant departments to plan and coordinate the construction layout of sports places and facilities; to be responsible for the examination and approval of employment requirements of sports operation activities, and to administrate the sports market in accordance with laws;
8. to be responsible for the acceptance and handling of administrative reconsideration and response to administrative litigation; and
9. to coordinate, direct and administrate sports external contact of this Municipality; to conduct sports cooperation and exchange with foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao, or Taiwan region; to undertake other matters assigned by Shanghai Municipal People’s Government.