在招生過程中 體育成績將會扮演更重要的角色

Aiming to improve Chinese students' overall fitness, the education authority called on last Monday for greater emphasis on physical education in school admissions and assessment of officials.

爲了提高我國學生的整體身體素質，教育部上週一要求在學校招生和考覈官員時更加註重體育。

The Ministry of Education urged high schools and colleges to give more consideration in admissions to students' PE class attendance, fitness level and on-campus athletic performance. It also asked that the work evaluation of local education and school officials be pArtially based on students' results.

教育部敦促高中和大學在招生時，更多地考慮學生體育課出勤、體質健康狀況和校內運動表現。教育部還要求將學生體質健康狀況列入地方教育部門與學校負責人業績考覈評價指標之一。

The call was in response to a regulation issued by the State Council, China's Cabinet, aimed at highlighting physical education's role in China's education system.

該要求是對國務院發佈的規定作出迴應，旨在突出體育在中國教育體系中的作用。

If students' fitness declines for three consecutive years, school leaders and local officials in charge will be punished and they won't be eligible for promotion.

如果學生體質健康水平持續3年下降，學校領導和地方負責官員將受罰、失去晉升資格。

"Under our current education system, in which students get enrolled through exams and are assessed by all kinds of scores, involving PE more in exams is the effective way to have students exercise more," said Wang Dengfeng, director of the ministry's Physical Education, Health and Art Department.

中國教育部體育衛生與藝術教育司司長王登峯表示：“在我國現行的教育體制下，學生通過考試入學，並通過各種各樣的成績進行評估，因此，更多地將體育加入其中，是一種促使學生更多地參與鍛鍊的有效途徑。”

PE tests are currently included in China's high school entrance exams.

目前，我國中考考試項目包括體育。

However, students' PE performance is not part of the scoring system of the college entrance exam, or gaokao, which has led students in senior grades to focus more on academics than sports, while leading some schools to replace PE classes with extra tutoring.

然而，學生的體育成績並不是高考的評分系統中的一部分，這導致高中生更注重學術學習而不是體育運動，進而促使一些學校用額外的課程輔導取代體育課。