The school has been recognized as a "national high-level sports reserve talent base" by the State Sports General Administration for two consecutive periods (20 13-2016, 2017-2020), and the track and field events (middle and long distance running) were held in 2009, 2013 and 2020.
It has been recognized by the State Sports General Administration and the Ministry of Education as the national advanced amateur training collective, the national youth campus football characteristic school, the national youth campus tennis characteristic school, the national mass sports advanced collective, the national youth sports advanced collective, the key scientific research units in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, and the provincial college students' business incubation base. The middle and long-distance running project has been recognized by the Yunnan Provincial Sports Bureau as the "one city, one boutique" provincial project joint office.
History and idea of running a school:
Over the past 33 years, the school has adhered to the school-running policy of "putting moral education first, paying equal attention to reading and training, and combining sports with all-round development" and implemented the school-running concept of "surviving by improving sports performance and developing by improving teaching quality", taking the lead in realizing the "three-star" talent project in Yunnan Province, making Yuxi the only city in Yunnan Province with "three-star" talents and writing a glorious chapter in Yuxi's sports cause.
Notice of Yuxi Municipal People's Government-Yuxi Sports School Recruiting Teachers in Advance in 2022