Abstract: The sports honor system has the function of mobilizing, motivating and behavior guidance, and it is necessary to perfect the sports honor system for the new era and the new journey. By tracing the historical development of the sports honor system in China and studying the merit and honor systems in other countries, this paper puts forward four suggestions on perfecting the sports honor system. First, adhere to the correct political direction and strengthen the political guidance to resolutely implement the Party's basic theories, routes, and strategies, and actively translate the Party's political propositions and major decisions and arrangements into laws, regulations, policies, and decrees that are meritorious to the Party and the state, and into work practice. Second, the sports honor medals are not only the monument of China's sports cause, but also the condensation of the Chinese sports spirit and the Olympic spirit. The sports honor medals should be built as a key project of sports honor in the future. Third, exert lasting influence and leadership through such measures as establishing a national sports merit book, a historical memorial hall, and a medal-displaying museum. Fourth, the internationalization of the national merit and honor system is a world practice, and the sports honor system should be promoted to go international.

Key words: national merit and honor system, sports honor, sports honor medal, spirit incentive, material reward