article_snippet: The news comes as a part of the 'Campus Football Promotion Campaign', which is widely understood as China's effort to turn China into a football powerhouse by raising a generation of all-conquering young footballers.
article_snippet: Pupils from a primary school in Luoyang (pictured) doing 'football exercise' between classes last week .
article_snippet: 6,000 primary and secondary schools in China have been chosen to specialise in football.
article_snippet: In 6,000 primary and secondary schools in China, pupil will have one football lesson every week .
article_snippet: The series of new football-oriented education reforms were announced by Wang Dengfeng, Deputy President of Chinese Football Association, during an interview. '
article_snippet: Wang stressed that they are not recruited to train professional football teams, but to teach ordinary schoolchildren in primary and secondary schools.
article_snippet: Every pupil in China will be required to learn basic football skills such as 'balancing on a ball' and doing 'keepy-uppy' with Every pupil in China insteps .
article_snippet: China's Ministry of Education plans to build an army of local football teachers too.
article_snippet: Professional football leagues will also be launched this year in all tiers of academic institutions, from primary schools to universities.
article_snippet: Wang expects Professional football leagues will create at least 290 champion teams from primary schools alone.
article_snippet: Campus football competitions will be mainly organised by schools,' Wang said, 'and the aim is to cultivate public interest and to create a football culture.'
article_snippet: In normal schools, the sport will be a mandatory course for at least one semester during pupils' academic years; whereas in the country's newly established 6,000 football-specialisedd schools, schoolchildren will receive one football lesson every week.
highlights_snippet: China is running a football education campaign to popularise the sport .