Abstract: During the new transitional period of Chinese society from the survival to the development phase, some factors existing in the development mode of traditional Chinese sports constitute the internal causes to promote the transformation of sports development mode while politics, economy and social changes at the national macroscopic level are the external causes. Based on this, the paper believes that in the process of reform of Chinese sports development mode we should first of all clarify the essence of sports as the premise, consider the basic realities of the country as the key and adhere to the overall development as the core. We should also learn from foreign experience, reform sports system and choose the correct reform path.

Key words: China, sports, development mode, reform