(School of Education,Beijing Sport University,Beijing 100084,China) Abstract: The author studied elderly sports policies or clauses established by the United States and China since the 21st century, and revealed the following findings: there were big differences between China and the United States in terms of elderly sports policy development, which are mainly embodied in guiding conceptions, objectives, content and effect evaluation systems, specific implementation etc; the main reasons for difference existence are due to the differences in national conditions, management systems and social development processes between the two coun-tries. American elderly sports policies bring the following inspirations to the perfection and development of China’s elderly sports policy system: speed up the development of elderly sports activity guides, realize the effective com-bination of macroscopic guidance and microscopic guidance; joint participation of multiple departments and cross areas; “two-wheel drive” of the country and society; ensure the continuity of elderly sports policies. Key words: sports management;elderly sports policy;China;USA |