What are the arrangements for the 2016 World Traditional Wushu Championships by the Social Department of the General Administration of Sport of China in 2016

The World Traditional Wushu Championships are organized by the International Wushu Federation (IWF), not the National Sports Administration (NSA).

The president of the IWUF is Yu Zaiqing, who is also the vice president of the IOC and the vice president of China's National Sports Bureau.

The seventh World Traditional Wushu Championships, which was supposed to be held in 2016, was proposed by president Yu Zaiqing, is would be postponed to 2017, and later still every two years, it would be the same year as the World Wushu Championships.

Because now there is one more World Taijiquan Championship, which also includes traditional taijiquan, will be held in October 2016 in Poland. Together with the World Junior Wushu Championships in September, there are more international events this year.

Postponing the World Traditional Wushu Championships for a year will reduce the pressure on national Wushu federations, which is very reasonable.

Beginning with the seventh edition of the World Traditional Wushu Championships, the English name will be changed from World Traditional Wushu Championships to World Kung Fu Championships.

Since the Kung Fu craze in the early 1970s, the name kung fu has become familiar to many people around the world. familiar with the name kung fu around the world. It was not until 1974, when the Chinese Wushu Team visited the United States for the first time, that the word wushu was first known in the West. By the 1980s, martial arts practitioners in the West had already made a clear distinction between kung fu and wushu, with kung fu being traditional Chinese martial arts and wushu being competition martial arts.

So changing the English name of the World Traditional Wushu Championships to kung fu will help promote the Chinese martial arts in the world, and let the world know that both wushu and kung fu represent the Chinese martial arts.

The time and place of the 7th World Traditional Wushu Championships in 2017 have not been finalized yet.