The Biophysical Society of China Annual Congress of Exercise and Public Health 2021 is held online from Dec 4 to 5. [Photo provided to bsc.org.cn]

The Biophysical Society of China Annual Congress of Exercise and Public Health 2021 hosted by the Exercise and Public Health Branch of the Biophysical Society of China (BSC) and Shanghai University of Sport (SUS) and organized by Shenyang Sport University (SSU) was held online from Dec 4 to 5.

The congress consisted of five parallel sessions, covering sports and chronic disease prevention, the biological foundations of changes in athletic ability change, sports nutrition and health research. Those in attendance included renowned experts and scholars in the field. The number of online participants amounted to nearly 4,000.

Guests give speeches at the Biophysical Society of China Annual Congress of Exercise and Public Health 2021. [Photo provided to bsc.org.cn]

At the opening ceremony, professor Zhang Xin’an, dean of the College of Human Sciences at SSU, extended a warm welcome to attendees from China and abroad, and invited them to pool their strength and promote common development of their disciplines.

Professor Liu Zheng, SSU president, gave a welcome speech in which he encouraged scholars to put national strategies and advanced ideas into practice and promoted the formation of a management and health service model focusing on disease prevention while integrating exercise and medicine, improving public health literacy and laying a solid foundation for building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects.

Li Peng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), vice-president of the BSC and professor from Tsinghua University, delivered an opening speech. She said experts in various fields should further enhance cross-disciplinary cooperationto boost the development of the active health sector, improve China’s international influence in physical fitness and public health, and serve the implementation of national strategies in the sector.

Experts and scholars exchange views on exercise, health and nutrition at the Biophysical Society of China Annual Congress of Exercise and Public Health 2021. [Photo provided to bsc.org.cn]

During the plenary talk, Tian Mei, professor from the Human Phenome Institute of Fudan University (FDU), explained the progress and application of the China-initiated human phenome consortium platform.

Lin Xu, director of the human nutrition and disease research team at the CAS, delivered a speech about precision nutrition based on multiomics and dynamic metabolic homeostasis.

Professor Li Duo, executive vice-dean of the School of Public Health at Qingdao University, professor Zhan Siyan, head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the School of Public Health at Peking University, professor Liu Tiemin, head of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics of the School of Life Science at FDU, and professor Jason Lee, chief researcher of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore, expounded on the latest progress in dietary nutrition, health, and physical examination data evaluation, as well as losing weight by exercising and exercise-induced thermogenesis.

At parallel sessions, experts exchanged views on exercise, nutrition, active health, intrinsic rules, principles, and mechanisms, as well as the development and application of key technologies, and put forward the core and direction of future studies in this field. 

At parallel sessions, experts exchanged views on exercise, nutrition, active health, intrinsic rules, principles, and mechanisms, as well as the development and application of key technologies, and put forward the core and direction of future studies in this field.  speeches on the development of exercise and public health, as well as breakthroughs and interdisciplinary cooperation in the field of sports.

At parallel sessions, experts exchanged views on exercise, nutrition, active health, intrinsic rules, principles, and mechanisms, as well as the development and application of key technologies, and put forward the core and direction of future studies in this field.