School textbooks fuel Chinese soccer ambition   

人教社编成首部中小学足球教材 采用图文并茂形式

北京青年报记者昨日从人民教育出版社了解，为贯彻国务院、教育部“足球进校园”的部署，在大量前期研究和论证的基础上，由足球教育专家、中小学教研员、一线体育教师共同编写的《中小学校园足球教材》将于本月底编写完成。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- A series of soccer textbooks for elementary and high school students, featuring quick response (QR) codes, 3D graphics and realistic pictures, are to be published soon, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Wednesday. 

The publisher, People's Education Press, said compilation of the textbooks would be finished by the end of this month. The books will cover soccer education at elementary, junior and senior high school levels, and aim to cover soccer knowledge and skills while cultivating teamwork, cooperation and responsibility. 

To make the textbooks more interesting, 3D graphics and realistic pictures are carefully matched with the text to demonstrate various skill levels. Furthermore, a QR code at the introduction of each skill directs users to a short video about the technique, the newspaper reported. 

More than 30 soccer experts, school education researchers and PE teachers participated in the compilation of the textbooks, the publisher said.

Last year, the State Council, or China's Cabinet, and the Ministry of Education jointly launched a campus soccer development plan, aspiring to create 200 high-level soccer teams on Chinese elementary and high school campuses within the next three years.