A small building at the south entrance of Wangfujing, which is the office of the Preparatory Committee of the National Sports Federation.

"Comrade Chen Qiang, Director Wang asked me to inform you and go to the conference room for a meeting." A woman's voice rang out.

"Secretary Yang, I'll go over right away." Chen Qiang picked up his notebook, tidied up his clothes, and walked to the conference room.

The secretary Yang was born in a wealthy overseas Chinese family, in her youth had studied gymnastics and sports management in Japan, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, she resolutely ended her studies, and went to Yan'an to devote herself to the cause of resistance against Japan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, she served as a secretary in the Preparatory Committee of the Sports Federation.

In the conference room, everyone arrived, and Director Wang announced the start of the meeting.

Director Wang took the lead in speaking: "Comrades, the state has clearly defined the policy of developing sports, and we are now in a period of economic recovery, and we will not hold large-scale sports meetings, but focus on the popularization of sports, and the sports work should have schools to factories, from the army to the localities, and from the cities to the rural areas, and the focus should be on schools, factories, and troops. This is also the direction of our next work. ”

"Next, let's talk about the first item of our meeting today, I have a document here, which is the physical examination statistics of the conscription office, comrades will pass it on and take a look, and I will emphasize again, pay attention to the discipline of secrecy." Director Wang said and handed over the document.

Everyone quickly circulated the documents, and Director Wang said: "Comrades, you have all seen that the situation is not optimistic, a simple enlistment physical examination has blocked many enthusiastic young people who are interested in joining the army from the gate of the army, many of them are either too short, or too thin, and there are many diseases. It is no exaggeration to say that the physical fitness of young people does not meet the requirements of conscription, and this has affected our national defense security! ”

After the founding of New China, the medical examination standards for recruits to join the army were much stricter than before, but China at that time had just experienced a war, which could be said to be a ruin and full of devastation; at that time, the average life expectancy of Chinese was only 35 years, the infant mortality rate was as high as 20 percent, more than 90 percent of the people were malnourished, and the physical fitness of Chinese was generally poor, and the threshold for conscription was slightly raised, which was enough to block a large number of aspiring young people who wanted to join the army and serve the motherland.

"Director Wang, our country has a weak foundation, most of the people have not even solved the problem of food and clothing, malnutrition is a common phenomenon, this malnutrition, isn't it thin and short!" Someone spoke.

"You're right, there are so many people in our country, it's not easy to fill your stomach, so the leaders have always attached great importance to food production, hoping that everyone can have a full stomach! We can't do anything about food production, but now that the country is in trouble, we should also try our best to solve problems for the country. It is our important task to improve the physical fitness of the whole people and improve the health level of the masses through the development of sports. The purpose of convening the meeting this time is to pool wisdom and see if there is any way to improve the physical fitness of the masses of the people in a rapid and obvious way. Director Wang said.

"Director Wang, there are so many people in our country, and improving the physical fitness of the whole people is not something that can be completed overnight. This matter is not urgent, you have to take your time step by step. Another man spoke.

Director Wang nodded helplessly: "Professor Chen, what you said is very right, I also know that the development of sports cannot be promoted by pulling out seedlings." The comrades here are all experts in sports, and I would like to ask you to come up with ways to come up with ideas. ”

Everyone suddenly fell into deep thought, and it was clear that this was a big problem.

Seeing that everyone had no clue, Chen Qiang sighed helplessly and said, "Actually, it's not impossible. ”

"Comrade Chen Qiang, do you have a way?" Director Wang asked eagerly.

"I thought of something that, if it is promoted, may be able to improve the physical fitness of the masses to a certain extent." Chen Qiang said.

"What is it?" Everyone also looked at Chen Qiang.

"Radio gymnastics." Chen Qiang said these four words.

"Radio gymnastics? Is it a kind of gymnastics? Director Wang asked.

"Radio gymnastics is a freehand exercise that does not use equipment and can be carried out in a limited space. It can be seen as a kind of freehand exercise that follows the radio, or it can be used to direct the rhythm with a password. Chen Qiang explained.

Everyone nodded suddenly: "It turned out to be freehand exercises." ”

"In the past, the Japanese had a kind of 'chili drill', which was a kind of freehand exercise, and Japanese students had to learn that kind of chili drill, and I also learned some of it at that time." Secretary Yang spoke. She had studied in Japan and had a good understanding of the situation in Japan.

Another person next to him also spoke: "Under the German gymnastics system, there are also many exercises for freehand exercises. ”

"When I was studying in the Soviet Union, I also watched Soviet comrades do freehand exercises. There are three types of gymnastics, one is hygienic gymnastics, one is auxiliary gymnastics, and the other is apparatus gymnastics, of which hygienic gymnastics is a kind of freehand gymnastics. ”

"I heard that there was a military gymnastics exercise in the Whampoa Military Academy back then, and there was also a part of freehand exercises."

Everyone began to talk about it.

Compared with other sports, freehand exercises do not require equipment, do not require multi-person collaboration, only need a limited field, and can be carried out anytime and anywhere, which is indeed easier to promote than other sports.

Moreover, at that time, China was poor and white, not to mention sports that required equipment, and many places did not even have a smooth track, and even a sprint training could not be completed.

What's more, developed countries already have a precedent for freehand exercises, not to mention Japan and Germany, the Soviet Union alone also had freehand exercises, which was able to convince the National Sports Federation to promote radio gymnastics, after all, in that era, many things were learned from the "big brother of the Soviet Union".

Chen Qiang introduced the advantages of radio gymnastics in detail, and Director Wang nodded again and again after listening to it, and immediately felt that radio gymnastics is very suitable for China now, which will be an important way to improve the physical fitness of the people.

"Comrade Chen Qiang, this idea of yours is very good, and I hope you can write a written report, and I will report it to the head of the higher level." Director Wang spoke.

"No problem, I'll write a detailed report on broadcast gymnastics as soon as I get back." Chen Qiang replied.

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Chen Qiang's proposal to promote broadcast gymnastics quickly won the attention of the higher-level leaders, and the higher-level leaders also gave their approval, asking the Preparatory Committee of the Chinese Sports Federation to create a set of broadcast gymnastics, so as to mobilize the masses of the people to participate in physical exercise and improve the physical fitness of the whole nation.

Director Wang summoned everyone to the conference room to discuss the creation of radio gymnastics.

"Comrades, the creation of a set of radio gymnastics that can be promoted nationwide, this is the first time in China's strength, but the creation of radio gymnastics is not so easy, this time we convened a meeting, but also hope to brainstorm, everyone together to think of a way, how to create radio gymnastics, let's work together to complete this task!" After Director Wang finished speaking, he took the lead in looking at Chen Qiang, and then said: "Comrade Chen Qiang, you brought up the matter of broadcasting gymnastics, you should tell me your thoughts first!" ”

Chen Qiang didn't shirk, he cleared his throat and said: "Comrades, I think that creating radio gymnastics is a very professional thing, which requires professional gymnastics talents, so I think we can ask professionals for advice and ask them to help us create radio gymnastics." They are all sports professionals, but in addition to our sports general organizing committee, we also need to work together, and there are also many outstanding sports talents in various universities, such as Professor Ma from Peking University, Professor Yuan from Tsinghua University, and Professor Hu from Nankai, we can ask them for advice. ”

"In addition, there are some successful experiences in foreign countries, which we can also directly learn from. For example, our Secretary Yang, didn't he learn chili pepper in Japan? It is entirely possible to write a set of broadcast gymnastics according to chili gymnastics. There is also Professor Chen, who once studied in the Soviet Union, and can write a set of radio gymnastics according to the sanitary exercises of the Soviet Union. Secretary Yang and Professor Chen, it must be no problem for you to compile our own set of radio gymnastics based on what you have learned abroad before, right? Chen Qiang said and looked at the two.

"No problem!" The two said in unison.

Chen Qiang continued; "When we have collected enough plans from the experts, we can conduct a competition, learn from others' strengths, select the best of the best, and even we can combine different plans to finally develop a set of broadcast gymnastics suitable for us Chinese."

"That's right, it seems that Comrade Chen Qiang has a plan!" Director Wang said with a smile.

Chen Qiang has more than one set of radio gymnastics in his mind, and he can directly take out the scientifically proven and mature radio gymnastics in later generations and directly promote them. However, Chen Qiang still considered the environment at the time and decided to start from a collective perspective and avoid individualism, so he proposed to brainstorm and solicit opinions from a wide range of professionals.

Of course, Chen Qiang will also design a set of broadcast gymnastics like other experts, participate in the competition, and when the competition comes, Chen Qiang's plan is better, and finally selected as the official plan of broadcast gymnastics, then no one will gossip.

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The sports people of New China are full of enthusiasm for their work, and not long after the notice of the Preparatory Committee of the Sports Federation to solicit radio gymnastics plans was issued, they received several sets of plans, all of which came from professionals from various universities in Beijing. Within the Preparatory Committee, the staff has also developed several sets of options.

At this time, Chen Qiang submitted his plan, which did not seem abrupt. On the contrary, if Chen Qiang does nothing, it will be out of place.

With more than a dozen sets of plans, the Preparatory Committee of the Sports Federation convened experts and held a competition for radio gymnastics.

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