Basketball star aims to bring fun to PE classes

Physical education has traditionally involved students wearily running laps on campus, but Yao Ming's new proposal to introduce specialized PE courses is intended to make it fun.

Basketball great Yao, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, told its annual session that courses focusing on individual sports selected by students should be introduced in high schools to improve teenagers' declining fitness levels.

"Interest is always the best teacher. If students can learn and practice what they are interested in during PE classes, instead of being forced to take the same monotonous exercise everyone does, they will be more willing to train," Yao told China Daily on Sunday.