Wang dengfeng, director of the sports, health and art education department of the ministry of education, said that another 3,000 national soccer kindergartens will be established in 2020.

"To develop football talents, we should firmly grasp the key period when children aged 3-6 develop their sports interests, habits, cognition and skills." "Mr. Wang said.

In March 2019, the ministry of education decided to launch a pilot program for football-featured kindergartens, which is another step in the downward extension of campus football after football-featured schools.

According to the data released by the ministry of education, 3,570 football-featured kindergartens were selected and built in 2019, the first national expert committee on children's football was established, and a guide for games and activities in football-featured kindergartens was developed and issued.

In order to train children's football teachers, the national school football office will carry out the first national special demonstration training for children's football teachers in July 2019. Lecturers from the football association will train 200 principals and teachers respectively, and the training will be launched nationwide after the demonstration training.

At the meeting, wang dengfeng said that in 2020, another 3,000 kindergartens with national soccer characteristics will be established to pilot the promotion of the national soccer kindergarten game activity guide and the soccer kindergarten project management platform, as well as the promotion of popular science cartoons such as "wang xingzhu football".

At the same time, the committee of experts on infant football will be organized to investigate the work of kindergartens with football characteristics, to correct the unrealistic practices in some kindergartens that violate the law of physical and mental development of infants, and to guide the standardized development of infant football science.