TREE NEWS update: The Sichuan Provincial People’s Government approved in principle the province’s 15th Five-Year Plan for sports development, tasking the provincial sports bureau with implementation. A draft of the plan targets a sports industry scale of 400 billion yuan and resident sports consumption above 310 billion yuan by 2030, with priority on competition performance, outdoor sports, sports manufacturing and esports, including 10-billion-yuan-level manufacturing clusters in Chengdu, Mianyang, Dazhou and Ziyang.
Sichuan Approves Sport Development Plan Targeting 400B Yuan Sports Industry by 2030
The plan's emphasis on sports manufacturing clusters signals that provincial industrial policy, not just event hosting or consumer spending, is being positioned as the durable economic anchor. Esports being named alongside outdoor sports and manufacturing matters because it links Sichuan to a sector already tied to digital-asset and tokenization experiments elsewhere in China. Whether the manufacturing targets attract real private capital, or remain state-directed output goals, is the open question to watch.
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