The 1st China Children Football Development Forum and the 2nd Training of Campus Dream Catchers, hosted by China Friendship Foundation for Peace and Development (CFFPD), was held on April 12, 2018. The program was under the guidance of the CPAFFC and co-organized by Beijing Football Association and Beingmate Baby & Child Food Co., Ltd.

With the aim of “promoting Chinese parent-child culture, promoting children’s football, enhancing international children’s friendship, as well as caring about and improving the nutrition and health of women and children”, the event attracted experts on children football education, professors, representatives of relevant companies and heads and teachers of kindergartens from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province, totaling over 150 people, to participate in the event.

Li Xikui, Secretary General of the CPAFFC, attended and addressed the event. In his speech, he said that football education should start with children. Children football is a basic project for the healthy growth of young people. It is the cornerstone for the development of junior football and the source of the country’s talent pool for future football players. The children football public welfare project, namely Campus Dream Catchers, is a practical measure to respond to the directive of the Overall Chinese Football Reform and Development Program and a concrete implementation of the development of children football. The CFFPD will actively play the role of a platform for public welfare to unite all social forces to ensure the progress and effective operation of the project.

Xie Hong, the founder and Chairman of Beingmate and a philanthropist dedicated to children’s growth, said Beingmate’s involvement in children football is out of the special sense of responsibility and mission of the practitioners of baby & child products industry. "Strong babies and children make a strong China.” It is incumbent on Beingmate to contribute to the education and development of China’s children football.

During the opening ceremony, Deng Lan, Deputy Secretary General of CFFPD, and Chen Changhong, Deputy Secretary General of Beijing Football Association, signed an agreement on strategic cooperation on behalf of their respective sides.

Yang Haibin, Deputy Director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports and Chairman of Beijing Football Association, said that the forum would contribute to gathering wisdom and ideas and showing the direction for actions, so as to carry out practices and cultural exploration of football.

Wan Xuanrong, Member of China Cares for the Next Generation Working Committee and Supervisor of the CFFPD, introduced the project of Campus Dream Catchers and its future plan.

Jin Zhiyang, Director of National Campus Football Expert Committee, former coach of Chinese football national team, Consultant and Director of Technical Committee of Beijing Football Association, and Professor Wan Xuanrong, led the representatives of teachers, parents and children to read the Proposal of Campus Dream Catchers, proposing the idea of “Chinese football starting from me and let children grow up with football”.

During the forum, Professor Yin Hongbo, the founder of international critical period for football, gave a wonderful speech titled "Football: Children’s Very First Sport and the Current Development and the Future of China's Children Football".

British coach Adam James shared an interest-oriented animal-themed football course based on the characteristics of children aged 2 to 8 in China.

During the roundtable discussions, Jin Zhiyang, Liu Xifu, Head of Youth Division of Beijing Football Association, Geng Jianhua, FIFA grassroots coach instructor, CFA campus football coach instructor and professor of Shaanxi Normal University, Li Yuan, Principal of Laoshanxili Kindergarten of Shougang Nursery Education Center, Xi Tian, teacher of Huayuancun Kindergarten of National Government Offices Administration, and Xu Jinghai, parent representative of BK Kindergarten, had discussions on how to promote the development of China’s children football.

Afterwards, children football education experts from all walks of life conducted a one-and-a-half-day training session, combining theory and practice, to the principals and teachers of almost 100 kindergartens from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province. The training covers how to arouse children’s interest in football, organize football games effectively and improve children’s football courses and other contents.