Abstract: The year of 2020 marks the start of the second decade of the 21st century, which coincides with the new Olympic Year. This article uses the historical, cultural, and anthropological methodologies to trace back and review how the relationship between Chinese sports and the Olympic Movement has changed from difference to integration. This study is of great significance to construct a sports community of equal and shared future.The Olympic Movement, with strong western cultural characteristics, is different from Chinese traditional sports in economic basis, cultural form, thinking pattern and sports ethics. Since the Olympic Movement was introduced into China, Chinese sports has gradually achieved, on the basis of absorbing the essence of the Olympic movement, inheriting and carrying forward the Chinese culture of five thousand years, and continuously transmitting Chinese culture to the world, its communication and integration with the Olympic Movement while retaining its traditional characteristics and essence. Chinese sports is inseparable from the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Movement is inseparable from Chinese sports too. They are integral and interdependent. In a period of major change that’s rarely seen in a century, Chinese sports is facing unprecedented situations. During the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, Chinese sports needs to make full use of the Olympic platform to transmit the Chinese ideology so that the world can truly understand China, thus making outstanding contributions to the Olympic Movement and human culture.

Key words: Chinese sports, The Olympic Games, differences, integration