| （School of Physical Education，Shaoguan University，Shaoguan 512005，China） Abstract: The authors compared the current situations of development of sport economy in UK and China in terms of sports industrial value added, employee and consumption expenditure, and revealed the following findings: the importance of sports economy in national economy in UK is must greater than that in China; sport industry and consumption in China are mainly the manufacture and consumption of material commodities such as sports clothes, shoes and hats etc; first mover advantages possessed by UK, such as modern sports history, social welfare perform-ance and economic industrial structure etc., are main causes for the differences in sports economic development between the two countries, but fundamentally sport economy development should be started with satisfying the sport needs of the vast majority of people.
Key words: sport economy；UK；China |
