新中国成立以来,党和政府一直关心人民群众的体质与健康,党和国家领导人曾先后对群众体育及增强人民体质方面有过很多指示,促使我国40年来体育事业有了很大的发展。但我国人民的体质、健康状况如何,缺少调查研究。从1979年我国第一次进行全国性青少年儿童体质调研开始,我国的体质研究工作得到较快的发展,取得了丰硕的成果。 Since the founding of New China, the party and government have always been concerned about the physique and health of the masses. The party and state leaders have successively provided many instructions on mass sports and people’s physical fitness and have promoted the development of sports in our country for 40 years. However, our people’s physique and health status, lack of investigation and research. From 1979, China’s first nationwide physical fitness research for children and adolescents began, physical fitness research in our country developed rapidly, and achieved fruitful results.