There are many reasons for the low physical quality of Chinese college students. First of all, with the migration of the rural population to the city, this generation of children born in the city since childhood, usually live in the building, and occasionally go out to travel, there is no such natural environment around the mountains and rivers, since childhood lack of exercise in nature, and even some of the children live in the high-rise, usually do not have the opportunity to go out with the other children's companions. Parents feel that they were dirty and smelly when they were young and no one took care of them, but now that they have their own children, they want them to be pampered. So nowadays children have less fun running around, and when they grow up, they have to carry a heavy load of schoolwork, sitting in classrooms every day, reading and doing problems, and cultivating their interests are limited to piano and art. And basketball, taekwondo and such sports interest classes are rarely asked.
? Another reason is because parents do not see physical fitness as important, thinking that as long as there is no disease, after all, will not let the child engaged in physical labor. But the perseverance and other valuable qualities that a person develops in the course of sports are more than compensated for by other things. In European and American schools, if a boy is skinny and not muscular, he will be regarded as an anomaly by his classmates, yet not in Asia, where more importance is given to temperament and cultivation, which I think has something to do with Eastern and Western aesthetics as well.
? There's another reason I think it's the popularity of social media, especially cell phones that are becoming more and more powerful and captivating to children, who are exposed to electronics from a young age and are taking colleges and universities by storm. They are more willing to take time out to play video games than outdoor sports, but not go out and play basketball or run. Electronic products make our lives more and more convenient, but also the same to make us more and more lazy, now appeared a large wave of geek groups, and even the geek culture has developed very strong. Students even breathe outdoor fresh air time is less, let alone participate in sports.