ABSTRACT
Objective@#Physical literacy is the breakthrough point and fundamental goal to achieve the integration of sports and education, sports and public health and expand the function of physical education. Studying the children and adolescents physical literacy is a common responsibility for children and adolescents health, sports and health education workers. This article was based on the latest research evidence and expert opinions in China, aiming to develop the core items of physical literacy guidelines for Chinese children and adolescents.@*Methods@#This article systematically combed the dimensions and index system of children and adolescents physical literacy through systematic literature review. After five rounds of Delphi methods, the core items were extracted.@*Results@#The core items included four interrelated dimensions of body, emotion, behavior, and cognition, which were specifically composed of four components: physical ability, emotional experience, physical activity related behaviors, and knowledge understanding and application ability.@*Conclusion@#Children and adolescents are the key periods, sensitive periods, and window periods to cultivate physical literacy. The core items can provide framework recommendations for further refining guidelines. More empirical studies should be carried out in the future, in order to accumulate enough evidences and further to improve Physical Literacy guidelines, better to guide physical literacy promotion.