Study on Urban Hierarchy Status of Sports Population in Jiangxi Province

The survey shows that urban sports population in Jiangxi Province have the following characteristics: the "jobless or unemployed", "retired" vastly outnumber office workers, which reflects the uneven distribution of various strata; men outnumber women among the young and mid-aged and women are slightly outnumber men among the elderly, which reflects the uneven gender distribution; sports participation investment of higher income strata is relatively high, and low-income people are taking universal sports activities. To optimize the structure of sports population, the government needs to increase public investment in sports venues and facilities and publicity of the national fitness program, using legislation to protect off work time and raising the minimum income standards, and urging enterprises to set staff room, sports venues and facilities. The State Council promulgated the "National Fitness Program (2011-2015)" in 2011, aiming to gradually improve the physical fitness of urban and rural residents, but the implementation of the plan is facing a real problem, namely, how to make every single man take part in sports activities. Thus, we need to study what factors are currently affecting or likely to affect people's participation in sports. Combining my own research project, I take the sports population of urban residents as my research subjects, and assume that people's participation in sports and the degree of involvement are closely related to their stratum. Based on this assumption, I led members of my research group and we conducted a survey of urban residents in Jingdezhen, Jiujiang, Yichun, Nanchang, analyzing their proportion of the sports population, participation forms, frequency and motivation in order to fully understand the demographic situation of cities in Jiangxi Province and explore the causes of this situation from the perspective of social justice theory. 5,000 questionnaires were distributed and 4,870 were returned which are all effective. The survey targeted mainly at ordinary urban residents, so high school students and college students are not included in the survey in order to reach a more general conclusion.