(School of Physical Education,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510631,China) Abstract: Based on his review of major domestic views on the concepts of big country of sports and powerful country of sports, the author pointed out such three characteristics of a big country of sports as surpassing, institu-tional and unbalanced, probed into the connotations of and necessary conditions for a big country of sports and a powerful country of sports in terms of sports population, performances in the Olympic Games and the proportion of gross domestic sports product in gross domestic product, and concluded that at present China is generally a big country of sports, but it is still not a powerful country of sports yet, and that building a powerful country of sports is China’s goal for future sports development. Key words: sports sociology;sports in a big country;big country of sports;powerful country of sports |