根据对近4年部分赛事有关定向越野运动比赛的相关资料统计,通过在校大学生对定向越野课程兴趣的调查,分析当代体育教育对大学生身心健康的重要关系,提出在江西省高校中开展定向越野运动不仅符合本省地形的特殊性,更有利于学生身体、心理健康和各个方面能力的培养。总结了此运动在江西省高校具有广泛的发展前景,具备在高校体育教学中普及和发展的意义,对现阶段提倡精神文明建设构建和谐社会和“全民健身”运动都起到积极影响。 According to the relevant statistics of some ornately-oriented cross-country sports events in recent 4 years, through the investigation of college students’ interest in orienteering, this paper analyzes the important relationship between contemporary physical education and the physical and mental health of college students, Movement not only meets the particularity of the province’s terrain, but also conducive to the students physical, mental health and all aspects of ability training. It summarizes that this sport has a wide range of development prospects in colleges and universities in Jiangxi Province, has the significance of popularization and development in PE teaching in colleges and universities, and plays a positive role in promoting the building of a spiritual civilization and building a harmonious society and in the “National Fitness” campaign at this stage.