Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 29 (reporter Ma Xiangfei) the reporter learned from the national anti-doping work conference in 2019 that last year, China carried out nearly 20,000 doping tests, with a record high number, this year’s work will focus on preparing for many large-scale comprehensive events such as the Tokyo Olympic Games.
According to the materials released by the State General Administration of Sport on 29th, the anti-doping center carried out a total of 19458 inspections last year, including 16699 urine tests and 66 cases of violations of stimulants. The inspection paid more attention to strengthening the planned research, making personalized inspection plans for high-risk projects and athletes and improving the monitoring plans, improving the inspection efficiency, and successfully completing the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Jakarta Asian Games, the anti-doping work of the Chinese delegation in the Youth Olympic Games and other comprehensive games ensured that the athletes entered the competition cleanly.
Last year, the legal construction of anti-doping has made gratifying progress. The Supreme People’s Court is studying and formulating a criminal judicial interpretation to punish illegal acts involving stimulants according to law. The “punishment” for illegal acts involving stimulants is just around the corner.
In addition, China will build “a long-term anti-doping control system with clean gold medals”, which has been incorporated into the anti-doping center’s anti-doping work development plan (2018-2022).
In terms of education, the anti-doping education platform (cadepp) designed and developed by the anti-doping center last year was launched, and the anti-doping education access work of the Asian Games, Youth Olympic Games and Provincial Sports Games was completed, covering more than 180000 people. Through learning, athletes have improved their awareness of self protection. Taking the application for therapeutic medication exemption as an example, the medication exemption committee has received more than 1350 consultations, four times that of 2017.
Foreign exchanges and cooperation are also quite bright spots. The second global anti-doping education conference was successfully held in Beijing in last October. More than 200 people from 122 relevant organizations around the world participated in the conference and passed the Beijing Declaration. China also showed anti-doping work through this window.
The focus of this year’s work will be the preparation for multiple comprehensive large-scale events. Li Yingchuan, deputy director of the State Sports General Administration, said that the national sports system must firmly establish the concept of “winning clean gold medals” and resolutely prevent the major risks of stimulants, focus on the anti-doping work of preparing for the Tokyo Olympic Games and the second National Youth Games in 2019, and win the anti-doping battle in an all-round way. He stressed that the General Administration of Sports will carry out special anti-doping control in the national sports system in 2019, accelerate the promotion of the punishment of stimulants, and strive to establish and improve the long-term anti-doping control system of “getting clean gold medals.