In November 2017, the Education Department of Henan Province published the evaluation results of philosophy and social science innovation team of colleges in Henan, the “Research on Urban and Rural Public Sports Services” team led by Zhao Dachao from Henan University received the financial support with an initial construction fund of 150 thousand yuan and would get the second fund after finishing the project and meeting the basic requirements. The research contents of this innovation team center on five major aspects: research of the development strategy and policy of urban and rural public sports services, research of the allocation of urban and rural public sports resources, research of the supply of urban and rural public sports products, research of the public sports services purchased by government, and research of the performance evaluation of urban and rural public sports services.

The philosophy and social science innovation team is a talent training project to improve the scientific research and innovation ability of philosophy and social science of colleges in Henan and vigorously implement the talent strategy by the Education Department of Henan Province. With excellent academic leaders as its chief experts and excellent backbone teachers as the team members, the team has made exploratory, strategic and prospective basic and applied researches surrounding the major areas and the frontier and hot issues of national and provincial social economic development, and produced many symbolic achievements with significant effects. The approval of the building of the “Research on Urban and Rural Public Sports Services” team fully embodies the team advantages, academic characteristics and strong abilities of the humanities and social science research of the School of Physical Education of Henan University.