Reporter Lu Mi reports On January 9, the second meeting of the 12th Member Congress of the Chinese Football Association was held, and Song Kai, chairman of the Football Association, made a report on the work of the Chinese Football Association in 2024. According to the "2024 Work Report of the Chinese Football Association", under the leadership of the State Council's special task force for promoting football reform and development, the Football Association has taken the rationalization of the management system and mechanism as a key task.

Build a new pattern of football work

In China's football work in 2024, a new pattern of football work is reflected.

The first is to promote the reform and development of football at a high level. Through unremitting efforts, the work pattern of "the General Administration of Sports is in charge, the Ministry of Education supports and cooperates, the Chinese Football Association and local football associations implement it, and the relevant ministries and commissions, local party committees and governments work together". Gao Zhidan, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the State General Administration of Sports, serves as the leader of the Football Work Leading Group, regularly studies and listens to the important work of football, and Zhang Jiasheng, Deputy Director of the General Administration of Sports, serves as the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, giving full play to the role of "head goose" and fulfilling the duties of "the first responsible person".

The second is to innovate the work mode of football supervision and guidance. The discipline inspection and supervision team of the General Administration of Sports supervised in the front, walked in the same direction as the football reform, went deep into the national team and local research on football, held a football special meeting with the Party Group of the General Administration of Sports and the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, and coordinated with the discipline inspection and supervision team of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security and other ministries and commissions to find "symptoms" and prescribe "good prescriptions".

The third is to consolidate the territorial responsibility of local party committees and governments to grasp football. The General Administration of Sports held the 2024 National Sports System Football Work Conference, and the football management system and mechanism of "departmental coordination, upper and lower linkage, clear responsibilities, smooth and efficient" have begun to take shape.

The fourth is to improve the construction of the membership system of the Chinese Football Association. Solidly carry out special research on the construction of the system of member associations, optimize the membership structure, and actively attract industry associations such as the China Public Security Sports Association to join. explore and promote the hierarchical management of member associations to empower provincial football associations; Revise and improve the "Membership Management Measures" and other supporting systems, strengthen the construction of football information platform and the data management of football business, and provide work guidance, supervision, management and support for member associations.

Fifth, optimize the corporate governance structure of the Chinese Football Association. Promote the establishment of an operating mechanism of the association with the member congress as the authority, the executive committee as the executive body, the secretariat and the special committee as the administrative body, and the board of supervisors as the supervisory body; Promote the standardized operation of the Executive Committee, and convene the Executive Committee three times a year. Establish rules and regulations and improve the operating mechanism of the secretariat.

Restore the political ecology of football

In 2024, China's football field will be guided by political construction and based on the construction of the cadre team, and the political ecology of the football field will be comprehensively restored.

The leadership team has given full play to its overall function. The new Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association insists on looking at football from the political point of view and doing football from the political point of view. Strictly implement the "first issue" system, timely convey, study and study the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on sports and football work, study and formulate the "Implementation Rules of the Chinese Football Association on Implementing the Spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's Important Instructions and Instructions", and always benchmark and calibrate the direction. Thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on straightening out the management system and improving the internal operation mechanism. Adhere to the pre-research and discussion of the party committee of the "three major and one major" matters, and coordinate and promote the implementation of the central inspection and rectification, the key tasks of the football special class and the "3+5" key tasks of the association in the spirit of nailing.

The self-building of the contingent of cadres has been strengthened in an all-round way. Strictly implement the party's organizational line in the new era, optimize and adjust the internal institutions of the Chinese Football Association, comprehensively promote the standardization and standardization of party branches, and improve the whole chain mechanism of "selection and breeding" of cadres. Strengthen the supervision of cadres and build a learning organization. Hold a special training demonstration class for the political capacity building of the heads of member associations on "grasping party building and promoting reform". Jointly with the Chinese Basketball Association and the China Football Development Foundation, a training course for party branch secretaries and members was held. Carry out research on the party building of member associations and professional clubs, promote the full coverage of party organizations of provincial member associations, and the party organizations of qualified professional football clubs should be built.

The political ecology of the industry continues to improve. Strictly implement the main responsibility and supervision responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the party, and the members of the association team consciously fulfill the "one post and two responsibilities". Improve the internal management system of the Association's Discipline Inspection Commission, standardize the workflow of petition reporting and case investigation. Under the guidance of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the General Administration and the Discipline Inspection Commission of the organs directly under the General Administration, the special action of "using cases to promote reform and promote governance, rectify the work style, and purify the political ecology of football" has been carried out. Strictly enforce discipline and accountability for those involved in violations of discipline and law, introduce the "ten prohibitions" discipline requirements for the staff of the Chinese Football Association, and make great efforts to strengthen the construction of work style. In conjunction with the Ministry of Public Security, establish a working mechanism for early warning and joint disciplinary action against "fake gambling and criminal crimes", and impose industry penalties on more than 60 practitioners involved in the case who were transferred by the public security organs. Establish and improve all-round supervision mechanisms such as taking the initiative to accept supervision from superiors, special supervision, and social supervision. Increase the verification and rectification of suspected age, household registration fraud, athlete grade certificate fraud and other issues in youth events, and take multiple measures to reverse the industry atmosphere and rebuild the credibility of Chinese football.

Continue to strengthen self-construction

The main tasks of Chinese football in 2025 are to strengthen the party's overall leadership over football work, promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the party, and strengthen the construction of party style and clean government and the fight against corruption. We will continue to improve the new work pattern of "the General Administration of Sports in charge, the Ministry of Education supporting and cooperating, the Chinese Football Association and local football associations implementing the specific implementation, and the relevant ministries and commissions and local party committees and governments coordinating the promotion".

The first is to further promote the anti-corruption and rectification of football conduct. Strengthen political supervision, solidly fulfill the main responsibility of supervision, and consolidate and deepen the achievements of the national football education rectification and the special action of "using cases to promote reform and promote governance". Pay close attention to the key positions, important events, and important nodes of the association to strengthen supervision and inspection. Strengthen the construction and role of the team of creditworthiness commissioners, and build a comprehensive regulatory system that links up and down the entire industry. Continue to improve and implement the "Eight New Regulations" for the supervision of referees, strengthen referee training and international exchanges, and strictly implement the system of referee promotion and promotion. Deepen the mechanism of regular communication and consultation with the public security department, promptly hand over clues to problems, and continue to crack down on and deter "fake gambling and criminal gangs". Intensify the investigation and handling of cases of conduct and report typical cases in the industry. Strengthen the establishment of a culture of creditworthiness and honesty in football, and do a good job of publicizing creditworthiness, discipline, and morality among employees. Pay attention to supervision by public opinion, continue to give play to the role of social supervisors, and consolidate the joint force of supervision work.

At the same time, we will continue to strengthen the self-construction of the Chinese Football Association. We will continue to strengthen the construction of the cadre team of the Chinese Football Association, improve the whole chain mechanism of "selection and cultivation and utilization" of cadres, implement the requirements for comprehensive and strict management of cadres, and strictly implement the system of filling in major personal matters. We will continue to select high-quality professionals to serve in international organizations to enhance their international discourse and influence. It attaches great importance to the construction of the information platform of the Chinese Football Association. The informatization work will be regarded as a strategic project to strengthen the construction of the national football family. Strive to achieve full coverage of core businesses in the national football field such as registration and transfer, competition organization, coach and referee training, youth training and national team management, and continue to strengthen key and difficult work such as athlete rating evaluation, national team player evaluation, healthy development of member associations, and monitoring of fake gambling through technical means, so as to provide technical information and data guarantee for the association to strengthen industry management, and continuously improve the association's governance level and business management capabilities.

When summarizing the past and looking forward to the future, Song Kai said that in the past year, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, Chinese football has stepped out of the quagmire and taken a solid step on the road of the new Long March of football. Tomorrow's Chinese football will also rely on struggle to create miracles. Chinese football people must always stand firmly on the people's position, consciously accept criticism and supervision, tackle tough problems in the most difficult places, advance to the most critical places, and pursue the most ambitious goals.