(School of Physical Education,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510006,China) Abstract: By using the literature research method, the authors collated the historical feats of “the Yangzhou Meet-ing”, reviewed “the Yangzhou Meeting”, thought about the direction of development of school physical education, and put forward the following opinions: “the Yangzhou Meeting” had corrected the position of school physical edu-cation in education, facilitated the recovery and reconstruction of teaching orders, specified the tasks of school physical education, promoted the development and maturity of the idea of “fitness education”, established practi-cally effective rules and regulations, boosted the standardization of school physical education and the pace of legal construction, assisted national children fitness research, and driven the progress of scientization of sanitation deci-sions making for school physical education; at present and in a certain period henceforward, the key job of school physical education should still be striving to solve the problem of teenage student fitness deterioration by sticking to the “health first” guiding ideology and by basing the basic objective on enhancing student fitness. Key words: school physical education;physical education teaching;enhancing fitness;fitness education;the Yangzhou Meeting |