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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

exercise, students, disabled in China, sporting events

College

Humanities

Department

Asian and Near Eastern Languages

Abstract

The “Body Building Plan for Entire People” (Quanmin Jianshen Jihua Gangyao) laid out in 1995, for the purpose of, “increasing exercise activities among the masses, and consistently building the number of people involved in sporting events. The body building of the masses will be viewed with an importance that increases daily, and the avenues for athletic pursuits will be available in increasing variety” (1). In the fourteenth article of the proclamation it is made clear that this plan is for all of China’s citizens including the disabled. The proclamation calls for the “pushing forth of body building activities for the disabled and an increase in health and ability to participate equally in society of the disabled.” Ten years later, in 2005, Yang Qiang of China West Normal University, Nanchong conducted a study to determine how effectively the Quanmin Jianshen Jihua Gangyao had been carried out (2). From this study it is clear that two barriers that prevent the disabled from exercising are resources and desire. This study focuses the impact of the Paralympics on the desire to be active.

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