Given the current situation, the Chinese Wushu Association has introduced the wushu duanwei system, a hierarchical system that evaluates practitioners' qualifications, combat skills, theoretical knowledge and morality in a standard way. It is a system derived from the successful experiences of karate and kickboxing in Japan and the Republic of Korea. For over a decade, this system has provided traditional Chinese martial arts strong support and helped it spread out outside China.

But the current standard training method should not break the original rules. Since wushu has its own characteristics in terms of individualism - in the past, masters usually taught their students according to their aptitudes - it can foster different martial and artistic groups under the same master making it easier for one school's techniques to spread wider and faster in society.

That's why it is still important to focus on the advantage of individual art and technique when it comes to wushu. Besides popularizing and promoting traditional Chinese martial arts, we should also try to discover more special talents to receive special training. Only if we have more special talents can wushu be developed into a global martial art form.

The author is the general secretary of Beijing Eight Diagrams Palm Association.

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