China plans to select 3,000 kindergartens to become youth soccer nurturing grounds by the end of this year as authorities push ahead with reforms aimed at making the country a global power in the sport.

Kindergarten is a key stage in the development of children's sporting interests, habits, understanding and skills, and the kindergartens will conduct play-oriented training to help develop pupils' interest in the sport. The ministry will provide soccer training to 200 kindergarten teachers and 200 principals.

The country also plans to build another 30,000 primary and secondary schools with soccer programs in their curricula by 2025 to foster children's interest in the sport and promote high-quality coaching, training and competition. China has 24,126 primary and secondary schools with soccer as their main physical education emphasis, involving around 20 million students. To qualify as soccer-focused schools, they must have at least one soccer course each week for all students and also provide them with after-school soccer training and competitive matches.

More than two-thirds of China's primary and secondary schools do not have soccer fields. There were more than 120,000 soccer fields in primary and secondary schools as of September, Wang said, but the country has more than 380,000 primary and secondary schools.

An avid soccer fan, President Xi Jinping has said he has three World Cup dreams for China: to take part in the tournament again, to host the event and to win it. "There is no shortcut, and only earnest teaching, training, fair competition and strong public participation can help improve the country's soccer level".

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1. What does the underlined word “foster” mean in Chinese in the third paragraph?（词义猜测）

A    减少.

B    提供.

C    拥有.

D    培养.