The Effects of Demographic Trends on the High-Quality Development of the Chinese Sports Industry

Yuping Duan, Ping Li, Di Meng, Te Bu, Xuewei Liu, Stevo Popovic and Radenko M. Matic
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Yuping Duan: College of Physical Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
Ping Li: College of Physical Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
Di Meng: College of Physical Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
Te Bu: College of Physical Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
Xuewei Liu: School of Physical Education and Health, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
Stevo Popovic: Faculty for Sport and Physical Education, University of Montenegro, 81400 Niksic, Montenegro
Radenko M. Matic: Western Balkan Sport Innovation Lab, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: Demographic change is a fundamental characteristic of China’s demographic development. The primary problem in China’s population development has shifted in recent years from overall pressure to structural challenges. Using data from China’s seventh demographic census, this study examines the dynamics of sports consumption growth from the perspective of population structure, analyzes the characteristics of the current population structure and the current state of sports consumption development, and establishes a regression to examine the impact of population structure change trends on sports industry development. The study demonstrates that there are varying degrees of correlation between different demographic trends and the sports industry in China’s aging population: the added value per capita of the sports industry is significantly ( p < 0.01), positively correlated with the proportion of the elderly population and the number of graduates from general higher education institutions. While the expansion of the sports sector continues to be positive, there are numerous issues that need to be addressed. To encourage the development of a high-quality sports industry, proactive countermeasures are proposed to adjust population policy, increase population quality, and promote the comprehensive upgrading of sports consumption.

Keywords: demographic structure; sports industry; high-quality development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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