Abstract: Through concept analysis and research review, this paper discusses the necessity to take talent transfer as an independent research field, and points out that the key issues of talent transfer include: selection of sports events, selection time node, selection index construction, database construction, scientific support and guarantee system. It is pointed out that the talent transfer has boundary, and the effectiveness of the practice is yet to be proved. Looking into the future, talent transfer can be promoted by: using big data service to establish athletes' individual life-time archives and transfer database; with support from scientific technology and research team, conducting systematic and consistent research on the correlation and internal mechanism of talent transfer factors while highlighting multi-disciplinary research; with the system as the guarantee, paying attention to the performance and benefit distribution of athletes and coaches.On this basis, drawing lessons from foreign experience of talent transfer to improve the theory of sports talents selection in China.

Key words: talent transfer, selection of sports events, selection time node, selection index construction, database construction, scientific and technical support