According to the overall requirements of the university development, Physical Education, as the main discipline of the “Life and Health” discipline group which is the focus of the university development, mainly focuses on the concept of “seizing the new growth point of the discipline, optimizing the structure and level of the talent team, enhancing the innovation ability of various resources integration, and realizing the transformation of the discipline's development mode”. “It has realized a new breakthrough in the discipline of physical education.
In 2011, the first-level discipline master's degree of physical education was approved and approved as the provincial key discipline in the 12th Five-Year Plan; in 2014, humanities and sociology of sports was approved as the fourth key discipline in Ningbo; in 2016, physical education was listed as the first-class discipline in Zhejiang Province (Class B), which realizes the milestone strategic goal of the discipline; and in 2021, it will be approved as the authorization point for the first-level discipline doctoral degree, which realizes the strategic goal of the discipline. In 2021, it was approved as the authorized point of first-degree doctoral degree, realizing the full coverage of high-level sports professional talents cultivation under the system of bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctoral degree.2022 In December 2022, the professional organization of higher education evaluation, Softech, officially released the “2022 Softech Academic Ranking of Global Sports Faculties”, and a total of 7 colleges and universities in mainland China were on the list. Ningbo University entered the list for the first time and ranked the 5th in the mainland.
In the past five years, the Department of Physical Education has accomplished the tasks of discipline construction in terms of team building, scientific research, talent training, platform construction and internationalization with high quality, and a number of landmark achievements have been accomplished:
1、Team Building
Adhering to the equal importance of introduction and cultivation, there are 44 full-time teachers in this discipline, including 16 teachers with full senior titles, accounting for 36.36%; 34 teachers with doctoral degrees, accounting for 77.27%; 19 teachers with overseas experience and 3 foreign teachers.
2、Scientific research
In the past five years, members of the discipline team added 42 scientific research projects above the provincial and ministerial levels, including 18 national projects (5 key and major projects), with a total of 10,970,000 yuan of scientific research funds, and an average of 207,100 yuan of scientific research funds for teachers; 82 horizontal subject projects, and 10,770,000 yuan of funds for horizontal subjects; and 7 scientific research awards above the provincial and ministerial levels (1 first prize of the Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement, 1 first prize of the Chinese Sports and Physical Education Award, 1 first prize of the Chinese Sports and Physical Education Award, 1 first prize of the Chinese Sports and Physical Education Award, and 1 first prize of the Chinese Sports and Physical Education Award. 7 scientific research awards at provincial and ministerial levels (1 first prize, 2 second prizes of Science and Technology Award of China Sports Science Society); 18 academic books published; 284 high-level papers published as the first/corresponding author, including 15 papers in the authoritative journal “Sports Science”; 7 provincial and ministerial level leaders' instructions.
3、Talent Cultivation
Cultivation of high-quality athletic training talents: practicing the talent cultivation mode of “integration of sports and education, synergy of training and training, and resonance of competition and creation”, 2019 graduate student Shi Zhiyong won the gold medal of weightlifting in Tokyo Olympic Games, which is also the first Olympic gold medal in the history of the university. 12 students were selected for the national team and won more than 20 world/national championships, and the basketball team won the third place of CUBA in 2020 and again in 2022, and was awarded the third place of CUBA in the country. The basketball team won the third place of CUBA in 2020 and broke into the national quarter-finals again in 2022; Zhang Jingyin and other 5 students were selected for the national men's volleyball team and won the Volleyball Asia Cup Championship; the basketball team won the fourth place in the National Competition of Physical Education Majors' Fundamental Skills in 2021; and won the first prize in the 18th Challenge Cup National College Students' Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition in 2023.
Cultivation of high-level master and doctoral students: 138 research papers have been published by master and doctoral students as the first author in authoritative journals, such as Sports Science, and 20 master students have been awarded full prizes to study for doctoral degrees in famous foreign universities.
4、Platform Construction
The discipline of Physical Education currently has a first-level doctoral degree authorization point, a key research base for sports and social sciences of the State General Administration of Sports, a training base for scientific training talents of the disabled in China, an experimental and practical training base for human movement sciences with the special support of the Ministry of Finance, and a research and development laboratory for core strength training and sports equipment with the support of the Department of Finance of Zhejiang Province, and it has been approved as the first-rate discipline in Zhejiang in Category B. Expanding the horizontal cooperation between schools and enterprises, the university has established cooperative research platforms with listed enterprises such as “Anta” and “Lege”. The university has taken the lead in establishing the China-Central and Eastern European University Physical Education and Research Alliance with the participation of 20 domestic and foreign universities, and the international brand forum on “Sports and Health” has been held for six consecutive times so far.
5、Social Services
Serving the strategy of a strong sports nation, science and technology help the national team: Gu Yaodong, Lin Ling, Zhao Liang and other professors led more than 60 postgraduates to contribute to the national team's preparations for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, the Winter Olympics/Winter Paralympics in Beijing 2022, and the Asian Games in Hangzhou 2022, which was reported by the People's Daily and other media. Promoting “school-enterprise” linkage and serving the development of sports industry: the university cooperated with Anta Group to build a sports equipment R&D center, and jointly developed the Beijing Winter Olympics national team's “steel-frame snowmobile shoes”, Olympic champion's running shoes, jumping rope shoes and other special equipment, with a cumulative sales volume of more than 600 million yuan; Docking to the needs of local sports development: the sports industry research team led by Prof. Cong Huping undertook the Research on the Path of Sports Modernization and Evaluation System in Zhejiang Province, and the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for Sports Development in Hangzhou City, etc., which provided suggestions for the development of the sports industry in Zhejiang Province.
6、Internationalization
In 2017, the journal Physical Activity and Health was founded, the China-Central and Eastern European Universities Physical Education and Research Alliance was established in 2021, three high-end foreign specialties projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology were awarded, and in the past five years, 60 foreign experts were invited for academic exchanges, and more than 50 master's degree and doctoral degree holders were subsidized to go to foreign countries to participate in international academic conferences or joint training, and more than 50 students have been trained. In the past five years, we have invited 60 foreign experts for academic exchanges, sponsored master's and doctoral students to participate in international academic conferences or joint training abroad for more than 50 times, and created international brand forums for the international academic conference on sports and health, innovation and development of PAAH journals, and cooperation and development of China-Central and Eastern European Universities Alliance of Sports Education and Research.