Abstract
Depending on the strategy of "Healthy China", more and more people pay attention to health issues. The integration and development of sports industry and health service industry is an inevitable outcome of industrial transformation and upgrading and healthy life in the new era. Through constructing the evaluation index system of the coupling and coordination development degree between sports industry and health service industry, using entropy evaluation method and coupling and coordination degree model, this paper explore the comprehensive level and coupling and coordination development status of sports industry and health service industry in thirty-one provinces, municipality cities and autonomous regions of China from 2013 to 2017. The results of this paper show that the comprehensive China’s sports industry and health service industry both present an incremental development trend year by year, and are characterized by the distribution of "high in the east and low in the west" in space. The government’s policy support provides superior industrial supporting conditions for the development of sports industry. However, it is not conducive to the promotion of industrial economic benefits. In the health service industry, the rapid development of health insurance is beneficial to the integration of industrial resources and the perfection of industrial chain. Whereas as the core content of health service industry, health service has greater space for development; the coupling and coordination degree between the two industries rises from mild maladjustment to basic coordination, which is characterized by the distribution of "high in the east and low in the west" in space; among provinces, with Beijing, the Yangtze River Delta and Guangdong as the three development center points, it shows the spatial evolutionary process from "dispersion-type plaques" to "gathering type scattered surfaces".
Highlights
China’s economy has continued to develop at a high speed, and its economic aggregate has leapt to a leading position in the world
In 2012, the State Council of China promulgated A Notice on the Issuance of the "Twelfth Five-year" Plan for the Development of Health Business, which first proposed the concept of the "health service industry", and in the same year, it further set forth the main contents that the "health service industry" contains in A Notice on the Issuance of the "Twelfth Five-year" Plan for the Development of Service Industry
In 2013, Several Opinions on Promoting the Development of Health Service Industry promulgated by the State Council clarified the main tasks and policy measures of the health service industry, and proposed the development of diversified health service combining sports fitness with medical care
Summary
China’s economy has continued to develop at a high speed, and its economic aggregate has leapt to a leading position in the world. In 2014, the State Council of China pointed out in the Several Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Sports Industry and Promoting Sports Consumption (hereinafter referred to as "Document No 46") that by 2025, we’ll basically establish a sports industry system with reasonable layout, perfect functions and complete categories to promote the integration and development of the sports industry, enrich the content of the sports industry, drive the combination of recreation and sports, popularize "exercise prescriptions", and give full play to the positive role of physical exercise in respects such as disease prevention and cure, and health promotion, so that the sports industry will become an important strength to promote sustainable development of economy and society [3]. It is necessary to clarify several questions: (1) What’s the current development situation and degree of integration of sports industry and health service industry? (2) What kind of index system is used to measure the degree of development and coupling coordination between sports industry and health service industry? (3) What are problems during the integration process, and what kind of development path should follow in the future?
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