Mass Physical Training

Many readers have recently written to us for information about mass physical training in China. The general principles guiding such activity are Chairman Mao's teachings, "Promote physical culture and build up the people's health" and "Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually, and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousness and culture." The following two reports show, in some respects, how Chinese physical culture workers put these principles into practice.