As an emerging driver of economic growth, the sports industry has been deeply integrated with regional economic development. Through mechanisms such as consumption activation, industrial integration, and optimization of factor allocation, sports event operations have shifted from a singular display of athletic competition to a multifaceted economic engine. This paper constructs five development paths: standardizing the improvement of event operations quality, expanding event consumption scenarios for broader development, advancing the integration of the event industry through synergy, innovating mechanisms for optimizing stakeholder cooperation, and amplifying the effects and radiating influence of events. These form a systematic framework for development. In the first half of the year, a city hosted over 500 sports events, and a coastal city's sports industry scale surpassed RMB 99 billion. The practices of typical cities validate the critical role of event operations in industry upgrading. The improvement of the government-business collaborative mechanism is an effective guarantee for the healthy interaction between the sports industry and economic growth. 

Junhao Jiang. Exploration of the Synergistic Development Path of the Sports Industry and Economic Growth: A Breakthrough through Sports Event Operations. Frontiers in Sport Research (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 4: 55-60. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSR.2025.070409.

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