The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has recently approved a plan to develop sports through 2020 with a vision to 2025.

The plan places importance on promoting sports practice among the community and in schools as a base to develop professional sports.

The city sets a target for 97 percent of local schools to organize regular sporting extracurricular activities for their students in addition to official physical training lessons.

By 2020, the city will ensure that one-third of the population exercise regularly and one quarter of all families practise some kind of sports.

About 70-80 percent of schools and all communes in the city will possess playing fields and sports grounds.
In order to boost the development of sports at schools, the city will build and experiment a physical training syllabus.

Furthermore, extracurricular activities at schools will be developed logically with a focus on universalisation of swimming classes.

Sports clubs at schools will be developed as basic units of physical education system.

Besides, the city will establish sports centres to offer more possibilities for youngster to play sports and discover new talents.-VNA