Dingkun Liu

Why Ice-hockey isnt a Popular Sport in China

Dingkun Liu

Abstract

As a sport fi rst played in 1875, ice-hockey becomes the one of the most popular sport in the Western countries, and millions of people engage in it all over the world. However, there are few numbers of people who familiar with ice-hockey or participate it in China in spite of large population. This analysis is based on four main potential reasons: the opportunities for Chinese people to participate in ice-hockey, the cost of training ice-hockey players, the number of professional ice-hockey players, and the low visibility and media exposure of ice-hockey in China. By analyzing these reasons can provide some clear solutions about the improving of Chinas ice-hockey international competitive level and eliminate the factors that hamper the development of ice-hockey. In this way, Chinas ice-hockey potential can be fully exploited since more people will likely to participate in this sport in the long term, which provide more ice-hockey talents in the future.

Keywords

Economy Analysis; Society Analysis; Ice-hockey; Sport development; Cost

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