Co-declared by NENU and Jilin University, the appraisal meeting of a major national strategic project, "Genetic Engineering Research Project of Football of Chinese Children" was held in Changchun on September 23rd.
At the appraisal meeting, Professor Zhang Shouwei, one of the heads of the project team and Dean of the School of Physical Education of NENU, introduced the general layout and plan of future development of the project; Pei Haihong, the other head of the cooperative project and a professor in the School of Physical Education of Jilin University, introduced the curriculum and stage results in detail. Subsequently, the panel reviewed the technical documents submitted by the project team and put forward constructive comments and suggestions. The panel agreed that the project is of great significance, which is the foundation for China’s football heading to the world and a key for turning China into a sports power. Finally, the panel identified that the project is scientific, innovative, advanced, promotive and transformative. The approval of the project marked a major achievement in the field of child and adolescent health of NENU and it also provided a feasible program for the construction of child-pupil sports education model.
(From News Center, translated by Yu Siying, revised by Qiu Yunlong)