| (Department of Sports Sociology and Science, Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education,Guangzhou 510075,China) Abstract: On the basis of summarizing sports in small towns in Guangdong,the authors put forward three criteria (seeking for the need for a breakthrough of the development of rural sports, the need for urbanization, and the need for depending on small town’s advantage of intermediary geographic location) for promoting the development of Chinese rural sports that base mainly on small towns, and proposals such as the development of rural sports as a public welfare undertaking must be supported by government’s system and fund assurance as well as unbalanced development strategy.
Key words: social transition; urbanization; small towns; rural sports
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