(1.College of Physical Education,Suzhou University,Suzhou 215021,China; 2.College of Physical Education,Ningbo University,Ningbo 315211,China)Abstract: Sports poverty refers to that an individual or a family fails to reach the basic sports life standard of a society due to the lack of necessary sports resources. In a modern society, sports poverty refers not only to the lack of sports resources and low sports consumption, but also to the deprivation of human being’s basic sports capability and right, inferior sports status, and unequal chances of development of sports structure. The authors considered that the following measures are conducive to solving the sports poverty problem in China: Reinforce sports right related basic laws; perfect the assurance of political system; establish the status of sport in social development; allocate social sports resources rationally; protect sport disadvantageous groups. Key words: sports poverty; sports resource; disadvantageous group; sports economics |