Abstract: Septermber 10,2018,President Xi Jinping made a clear request at the national education conference that we should establish the education concept of putting health first,open full physical education classes to help students enjoy fun in physical exercise,strengthen their physique,improve their personality and temper their will.It points out the direction for the future development of school physical education in our country.School physical education should be conscientiously implemented in accordance with the requirements of President Xi,taking the promotion of students' physical and mental health as the starting point and the foothold of school physical education work,effectively improving the students' physical and mental health and promote the all￣round development of students.This paper first studies and understands the President Xi's important speech spirit and its profound meaning,and explains that the President Xi's important speech fully embodies the people￣oriented thinking,attaches great importance to putting students' health first,and pays great attention to the coordinated development of students' body and mind.Second,it puts forward some measures and suggestions on how to implement the spirit of President Xi's important speech,i.e. we must open full physical education classes to ensure the time of exercise inside and outside the school,improve the education and teaching quality of physical education and extra￣curricular sports activities to ensure students' exercise effect,attach equal importance to "five educations" and integrate school physical education into the evaluation of school education quality,and physical education teachers should establish a strong sense of social responsibility and mission.

Key words: school physical education, physical and mental health, development direction