(School of Physical Education,Daqing Noramal University,Daqing 163712,China) Abstract: The author made a comparative study of changes of the arrangement of 3 sets of National Mass Callis-thenic Exercise Standards promulgated by the State Sports Administration from September 1998 to August 2009, and thought that trends of development of mass calisthenics in China would be the followings: the types and exer-cise forms of mass calisthenics will be more diversified; content arrangement will become more artistic and scien-tific; the market potentials of vulnerable groups will be tremendous and more and more focused on; the market prospect of mass calisthenics will be more optimistic. Key words: social sports;calisthenics;National Mass Callisthenic Exercise Standards |