The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee put forward the new ideas and new decisions of constructing China’s perfect legal system for further deepening the reform. This has pointed out the way for the innovative development of the sports in China. Based on the practical issues existing in the development, the paper tries to find out a way for the innovative development of Chinese sports under the background of managing sports with law. It puts forward the suggestions of establishing a relatively independent and unified internal arbitration system, starting sports legislation assessment, paying attention to soft-law governance for sports, bettering special socialist sports management structure, defining government’s responsibility on sports, pointing out the direction for the professional market-oriented development of competitive sports, innovating the property rights system of sports industry including athletes, establishing a market-oriented professional sports operation system. |