On April 20, 2025, the Forum on Theoretical Innovation and Independent Knowledge System Construction of Chinese-Style Sports Science, co-organized by Wuhan Sports University Press and the Sports Department ofRenmin University of China(RUC), took place at RUC. The event brought together leading scholars, university administrators, and practitioners to advance theoretical frameworks for sports science rooted in China’ s unique social and cultural context.  

In his opening address, Zheng Xinye, Vice President ofRUC, noted thatRUC and Wuhan Institute of Physical Education have a solid foundation of cooperation. In March last year, the two schools jointly launched the "Sports and Society Survey Project" and built the first open database in the field of sports and society in China. This forum not only marks a deepening of cooperation between the two schools in the field of sports science but also provides an important platform for the sports academic community to explore and promote innovation in the basic theories of Chinese-style sports science, aiming to reach new consensus and progress. Zheng hopes that this forum will serve as an opportunity to establish a regular cooperation mechanism for the study of basic theories of sports science, and through continuous theoretical dialogue and empirical exploration, jointly create an academic community for the innovation of sports science theories, and develop an ideological system, knowledge system and core strength of Chinese sports science.

In his address, Lv Wan Gang, President of Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, stated that as one of the earliest sports institutions of higher learning in New China, Wuhan Institute of Physical Education has always been committed to "serving the national strategy, leading the disciplinary frontier, and training sports talents." Over the past 70 years since its establishment, the institute has made remarkable achievements in talent cultivation, scientific research, technological innovation, cultural inheritance, social service and international exchange, and has followed a path of characteristic development. This forum focuses on the innovative development of the basic theories of Chinese-style sports science and the scientific development of an autonomous knowledge system. It brings together the wisdom of top experts and scholars in the field of sports science across the country to jointly explore the contemporary connotation, theoretical foundation and practical path of the basic theoretical system of Chinese-style sports science, providing theoretical support and intellectual backing for promoting the construction of a sports powerhouse and the modernization of the sports governance system and governance capacity.

Yang Hua, President of Beijing Sport University,delivered the keynote report titled "New Views and New Interpretations of Basic Theoretical Issues of Chinese-Style Sports Science in the New Era". He said that sports science is a science that takes people in motion and human movement as research objects, and explores the laws of promoting the harmonious development and goodinteraction of individuals, society and nature through physical activities. It is necessary to build a comprehensive, logically unified and structurally complete disciplinary system, a scientific, open and national academic system, and a discourse system with Chinese wisdom, Chinese values and international recognition. We should focus on sports practice, continuously promote the innovation of the sports science theoretical system in a systematic and theoretical way, consolidate the foundation of sports science in the new era, and provide an endless theoretical support for sports practice.

Huang Hansheng, President of Fujian Normal University, delivered the keynote report titled "On the Construction of an Autonomous Knowledge System of Chinese Sports Science". He said that in the new era, the construction of an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese sports science has become a major topic. Chinese sports science faces a new disciplinary mission, that is, to transform from an "imitator" and "learner" into an active "creator". It is necessary to properly handle the relationship between inheritance and innovation, the relationship between the construction of an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese sports science and Chinese sports practice, the relationship between the autonomy and openness of Chinese sports science, and the relationship between the construction of an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese sports science and the construction of Chinese sports science textbooks. We should scientifically answer the questions of China, the world, the people and the times in the field of sports, which should be the ideological, theoretical and practical awareness commonly held by all Chinese sports science researchers.

Experts attending the forum also includeLiu Qing, Zhang Ruilin, Bai Jin Xiang, Cao Jingwei, Wang Jiahong, Executive Director of Jiangsu Sports Health Industry Research Institute of Soochow University, Lu Yingzhi, Professor of the School of Psychology of Shanghai University of Sports, Zhong Bingzhu, Wang Jian, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Physical Education of Huazhong Normal University, Huang Qian, Professor of the School of Sports Engineering of Wuhan Institute of Physical Education and so on. They made thematic reports on sports management, sports economics, traditional national sports, sports biomechanics, sports psychology, sports education and training, and interdisciplinary sports.

The Forum on Theoretical Innovation and Independent Knowledge System Construction of Chinese-Style Sports Science aims to implement the strategic deployment of the "Outline for the Construction of a Sports Powerhouse", and focuses on the innovativeand scientificdevelopment of the knowledge system of Chinese-style sports science. The core agenda covers multiple dimensions, including the construction of the discourse system of Chinese sports science and academic, the exploration of innovation of sports basic theories, and the inheritance and prosperous development of Chinese sports culture. It aims to jointly explore new ideas and effective methods for the innovation of sports science basic theories in the new era and to build a broad and solid consensus among Chinese sports academics.