19 15 President Jiang Qian, a famous educator, advocates paying equal attention to morality, intelligence and physique. He believes that "it is not the luck of education for students to use their brains too much" and "education is a spiritual undertaking, which depends on a completely strong trunk as the foundation, otherwise the academic level will be considerable, and the limbs will not be able to develop their civilized thoughts, but they will not get good results in response to their obligations. Under his advocacy, physical education is listed as a compulsory course for students of any department, and all students will do Miller breathing exercises after getting up in the morning, which is the first in the country. 19 16 set up the department of physical education teachers, which took the lead in training physical education teachers for the whole country and trained a large number of sports talents for the society, such as Wu, Xu Bi and other famous physical education educators. The Department of Physical Education was founded in 1923, and it was not until 1952 that students majoring in physical education stopped. The former Shanghai East China Institute of Physical Education (now Shanghai Institute of Physical Education) was established with the Department of Physical Education as the main body.

After the founding of New China, the Department of Physical Education has earnestly implemented the educational policy of all-round development of morality, intelligence and physique, been determined to reform, and vigorously carried out mass sports activities, taking strengthening students' physique as the primary task. 1954 has made gratifying achievements as a pilot school of "labor health system" in colleges and universities nationwide. 1979 In May, our school was commended as an "advanced collective in sports health work" at the national school sports work conference held in Yangzhou by the Ministry of Education, the State Sports Commission, the Ministry of Health and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. 1981June, the Ministry of Education entrusted Jiangsu Higher Education Bureau to hold a national on-the-spot meeting on college physical education in our school to popularize and carry forward the typical experience of the "Big Three". 1983 Our school won the advanced unit of mass sports in the 5th National Games, the Department of Physical Education won the People's Government of Jiangsu Province 1988, and physical education class won the National Teaching Achievement Award 1989.