Development Trend of the Gymnastic Qigong and the Popularization Strategy

By a work review of the Health Qigong Administration Center, GASC in the recent ten years, consultation of literature and materials, and interviews of the practitioners, it is found that the development trend of Health Qigong has undergone shifts from individual exercise to nationwide fitness participation, from promotion driven by propaganda to institutionalization and standardization, from skill-based personal training to talent cultivation optimization, from promotion by popularization of science to promotion by scientific research, from domestic promotion to overseas extension, from simple skill exercises to competitive exchanges, from separate community stations to schools and universities, from practice methods popularization to the pattern of a diversified development. Correspondent strategies for popularization are proposed: to step up the popularity campaign to enhance public acceptance; to accelerate the cultivation of backbone forces of health Qigong to increase qigong participants; to make co-operations between schools and regions and resources-sharing an important approach for qigong popularization; to construct city-centered qigong popularization stations to establish a radiation framework towards townships; to improve the translation accuracy of language to enhance international promotion; to encourage government-supported market operation to prompt the industrialization of Qigong.