This study is to explore the overview of relevant research about the impact and the factors of physical education teaching on students’ physical fitness and health in China, the effectiveness of physical education teaching in improving students’ physical fitness health, and corresponding strategies. The study adopts the content analysis method and the results are analysed by objective quantitative statistics as follows: (1) The number of relevant studies is growing rapidly. The most of the journal papers are about college students, expositional (logical) analysis, students’ physical fitness and health, and physical education teaching. (2) The main factors affecting students’ physical fitness health are physical exercise time, teacher quality, and teachers’ professionalism. (3) The studies about that physical teaching improve students’ physical fitness health has a high proportion. (4) The main strategies for improving students’ physical fitness and health include optimizing the quality and content of teaching and sports clubs and school sports competitions. It is recommended that: (1) The relevant research should cover a wider range of educational stages and provide more empirical data. (2) It is advisable for school to increase student participation in exercise time, improve teacher quality and professionalism, regulate students’ regular lifestyle patterns; (3) More empirical scientific evidence is needed to validate the effectiveness of improving students’ physical fitness and even more physical education teaching conditions; (4) The strategies for physical education teaching to improve students’ physical fitness, mainly are focusing on the quality and content of physical education teaching and encouraging students to participate in clubs and sports activities. (5) Education authorities should prioritize monitoring and evaluation system for students’ physical fitness health.

Zheng Guan, Chao-Chin Liu. A Study on the Impacts and Strategies of Physical Education Teaching on Student Physical Fitness Health in China—Exploring with Content Analysis Method. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 26: 124-130. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2023.052622.

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