On Sep. 20, 2018, the chief referee and referee training course of the 2018 National Campus five-man soccer was successfully opened in Dalian Sports Center.

       This training course is sponsored by the Office of the Leading Group of the National Youth Campus Football Work of, executed by Student Sports Association of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and co-organized by the China Football Association. The training course is an important action in order to further implement the spirit of Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Youth Campus Football of the Ministry of Education and Other Six Departments and to effectively promote the active development of all levels of five-man soccer competitions of National Campus Football. The training course has received strong support from the Chinese Football Association, and assigned outstanding lecturers, such as GENG Zhiwei, ZHANG Jian and LIU Jianqiao, to participate in the training work; total of 38 chief referees and 63 referees from 28 provinces and cities of the country attended training.