Social sports, leisure sports and sports training are in Xianlin campus.
Nanjing Institute of Physical Education was founded in 1956, which was formed by the merger of Nanjing Sports School, Jiangsu Normal University's physical education specialty course and Jiangsu Province's sports cadre training course. It is the only independent sports college and an important provincial competitive sports training base in Jiangsu Province. The provincial key construction colleges directly under the Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau and the Jiangsu Provincial Education Department are known as the "cradle of world champions". The school motto is "rigorous, harmonious, simple and practical".
Nanjing Institute of Physical Education was founded in the former site of the Central Stadium in the Republic of China. 193 1 started the construction of the central stadium, 1933 The Fifth National Games of the Republic of China was held here. Liu Changchun, the "first person in China Olympic Games", set the national records of the old China 100 meter and 200m dash. 1945, the government of the Republic of China relied on the Central Stadium to bid for the 15 Olympic Games, and the ioc headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland still keeps the bidding materials. During the Republic of China, it was a place for politicians and celebrities to exercise and relax.