Zhejiang FC is driving youth training reform, cultivating players with global standards, and promoting Chinese football development. As a key player in Chinese professional football and the only Super League club in Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang FC is committed to the cause. The club's management has attended provincial and municipal football work conferences and actively communicated with government departments at all levels. Zhejiang FC has a 28-year history and a 25-year tradition of youth training, with its youth training system dating back to 2001. The club has cultivated over 1,100 players, with nearly 300 entering professional leagues and 182 being selected for national teams. Recent notable achievements include the development of current national team players Zhang Yuning, Cheng Jin, Wang Yuodong, and Liu Haofan. From previously being content with influencing local football culture to now proactively promoting multi-faceted collaboration with the region, Zhejiang FC's approach can be summarized as not being complacent and instead re-initiating youth training reform with a zero-based mindset and an active attitude. According to reports, the government at all levels attaches great importance to football and youth training, with State Councilor Xie Zhenhua emphasizing the need to establish a quality assessment system for youth training institutions with the goal of cultivating talent. For Zhejiang FC, this means greater attention and support. The club is confident in its ability to cultivate more excellent players but recognizes that this requires strong regional support and a large talent pool, which must be achieved through joint efforts with local governments and departments. The latest batch of players to enter the professional sequence, born between 2005 and 2006, has seen 26 players successfully enter professional leagues, with a career success rate of 68%. This remarkable proportion not only sets a new record for Zhejiang FC's youth training but is also rare among international peers. Through multiple visits to the Zhongtai base, it can be seen that Zhejiang FC's youth training staff is not satisfied with current success rates or competition results but is instead focused on long-term thinking, such as why their players seem to lack competitiveness in Asian Champions League-level competitions and why the ability gap with Japanese players widens as they grow older. It is this deep thinking that has driven the internal motivation for youth training reform. After over a decade of cooperation with Japanese youth training resources and systems, and deep collaboration with the team led by Okada Takeshi, Zhejiang FC became the first domestic club to have its own youth training outline in December 2021. This outline was jointly compiled by Chinese and Japanese youth training directors and includes both the Japanese team's spirit of craftsmanship and the Chinese team's research and development efforts. Only Zhejiang FC's internal coaches can view this 'core confidential' document online, and the club will provide theoretical and practical training for cooperative units. As the youth training outline is continuously improved and updated, so is the Sino-Japanese cooperative youth training system. Currently, the cooperation between Zhejiang FC and FC Imabari has entered a mature phase, with Chinese coaches increasingly taking the lead. Before this year, Feng Yang was the only Chinese main coach in the U15 team; in February, the club promoted Tan Yang and Li Wei to be the main coaches of the U20 and U16 teams, respectively. The club believes it is time to give these young Chinese coaches more opportunities to lead teams, as the purpose of learning from Japanese coaches is to cultivate their own coaching strength. The strengthening of Chinese coaching power does not mean weakening the Japanese team. There are still six Japanese employees in Zhejiang FC's youth training department, including Anzai Kentaro, who heads the medical group, and newly appointed technical advisor Shindo Kiyoshi, whose main responsibility is to improve the professional level of youth training coaches through lectures and on-site guidance and to assess all team coaches. Shindo, a 74-year-old Japanese coach and lecturer, was previously in charge of the Japanese Football Association's coach training program. The new coach quality control assessment system he leads will not only look at results but also at talent cultivation, professional ability, and management ability. It can be seen that although the club has a mindset of reform and a zero-based attitude, this does not mean dismantling the existing youth training system but rather comprehensively improving it with higher self-demands and talent cultivation standards, from professional technology, management ability, logistics guarantee, medical service, to youth training mechanisms, and practicing its own youth training philosophy: establishing a long-term guidance system, educating athletes through football, and cultivating players with global standards. On June 6, AFC Vice Technical Director Ono Tsuyoshi and Youth Committee member Sanada Tomohiro visited Hangzhou to conduct on-site inspections and assessments of Zhejiang FC's 'AFC Three-Star Youth Training Academy'. If Zhejiang FC obtains the highest level of certification, it may become China's first 'AFC Three-Star Youth Training Academy'. On the same day, Zhejiang FC's partner club FC Imabari received this certification, becoming part of the 'AFC Three-Star Youth Training Academy' family, which includes ten institutions such as Qatar's Aspire Academy, Vietnam's PVF Training Center, and South Korea's Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. According to reports, this certification system is part of the AFC's Elite Youth Program and requires strict examination of the applicant's training system, player development environment, education system, infrastructure, and professional team in 20 areas. Currently, only Jiangsu Taihu Lake Base women's youth training has been awarded the 'AFC Two-Star Youth Training Academy' certification. Competing for the 'AFC Three-Star Youth Training Academy' certification and the highest honor has greater significance for Zhejiang FC, as it means their youth training has entered a new development opportunity. Club management clearly sees that, compared to the AFC's assessment standards, 'we have just barely met the requirements'. In the future, they will strive to catch up with excellent peers in Asia and have a clearer understanding of what needs to be done. Another opportunity is the transformation of the new football school. Established in 2004, Zhejiang Green City Football School is not only an assessment object of the AFC inspection team but also faces opportunities and challenges in its transformation and upgrading. Currently, the primary school stage team has been connected with local quality educational resources in Quzhou, and the club has reached a cooperation agreement with Hangzhou Normal University, but the key '3+4' connection has not yet formed an effective mechanism. In the future, the club will continue to promote the transformation of the new football school. In addition to maintaining an open and transparent channel for professional players to rise, providing a guarantee mechanism for players and parents, and affecting the future and life of those who cannot reach the 'top of the football pyramid', Zhejiang FC is also willing to participate in the five-level youth training center layout across the country with an open and proactive attitude, whether it is transferring talent to national or regional youth training centers or playing a core role in provincial, municipal, and county-level youth training centers, with the integration of Sino-Japanese youth training systems and advantages, and the continuous improvement and comprehensive output of youth training concepts and practices.