毛泽东同志历来重视体育,特别关心少年儿童的健康成长。建国初期,毛泽东同志先后作出“健康第一”、“发展体育运动,增强人民体质”的指示,向全国青少年发出“身体好,学习好,工作好”的号召,一九五七年毛泽东同志明确指出,“应该使受教育者在德育、智育、体育几方面都得到发展”,把体育作为教育的重要组成部分。 Comrade Mao Zedong has always attached importance to sports and is particularly concerned about the healthy growth of children and adolescents. In the early days of the founding of New China, Comrade Mao Zedong successively issued the directives of “health first”, “developing sports activities and enhancing people’s physique” and issued a call to “good health, good study and good work” to all young people in the country. Comrade Mao Tse-tung Pointed out that “education should be made in moral, intellectual, physical development in several areas”, the sports as an important part of education.