Abstract: The contemporary Chinese society is now experiencing its gradual transformation from a “totalist society” to an "individualized" one. Individualized society breaks and surpasses totalist society, which reclaims a new field for Chinese sports development. With the emergence of individualized society, China gradually turns into the new era of leisure. In the framework of individualized society, the proposal and practice of leisure spots has, one the one hand, endowed Chinese sports undertaking in the new era with the characteristics of new times and the people-oriented modern idea. One the other hand, individualized society has provided the new sociological basis for leisure sports, which is characterized by flexible social environment, rational economic environment, liberal political environment and humanist cultural environment.

Key words: individualized society, leisure sports, sociology