Abstract: Mass sports is an important part of the national fitness strategy. Study on the fiscal input efficiency of mass sports is conducive to meeting people's growing diversified sports demands and changing the insufficiency and imbalance of public sports service supply. The DEA model and the Malmquist index were used to study the fiscal input efficiency of the mass sports in six provinces from 2011 to 2015. The results show that: after 2013, the overall fiscal input efficiency of mass sports in the central region is better than that of the whole country, but there are differences in the fiscal input efficiency of mass sports among the six provinces and there were input redundancy and insufficient output. From the perspective of improving efficiency, there is much room for the provinces to improve input indicators and output indicators; the dynamic Malmquist index reveals that the productivity of mass sports in the central region has begun to decline and is moving towards a recession mode. Therefore, the production technology and scale construction need to be improved.

Key words: central region, mass sports, fiscal efficiency, DEA-Malmquist model