Abstract: Government purchase of public services is a system arrangement to change government function, and has gradually expanded to the field of public sports services. Practices at home and abroad have proved that government purchase of public sports services is significant to optimize allocation of sports resources, cultivate sports social organizations and improve government’s efficiency of operations. Base on the analysis perspective of sociological institutionalism, the paper discusses the system construction of Chinese government purchase of public sports services by analyzing the institutional factors influencing government purchase of public sports services from the 3 aspects of regulation, standardization and culture-cognition, and puts forward the strategies of strengthening government management innovation, perfecting relevant laws and regulations, clarifying the process of government purchase, improving the system of evaluation and supervision, and improving the ability of sports social organizations to participate to tackle the existing problems including imperfect legal system, shortage of institutional supply, unthorough implementation of policy, lack of evaluation and supervision mechanism, limited development of social organization.

Key words: public sports services, government purchase, sociological institutionalism, system construction