In February 2025, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission issued Several Measures for Further Strengthening Physical Education in Primary and Secondary Schools in the New Era (abbreviated as the “Beijing’s Eight Measures”), which has attracted considerable attention across educational communities in Beijing and nationwide due to its innovative contents and methods, exerting an important impact on the reform and development of physical education in primary and secondary schools in Beijing. In the process of implementing the“Eight Beijing Measures”, primary and secondary schools in Beijing are encountering new challenges, while simultaneously discovering emerging opportunities. It is imperative to grasp the characteristics and significance of these measures to progressively advance into a new phase of physical education. This policy document addresses existing weaknesses in school physical education in response to the requirements of Education Power Strategy. It is one of national leading significance, combining for ward-looking and advanced concepts. Among them, the “intangible measures” that combine tangible and intangible approaches need to be further detailed through teaching reform practices. During implementation, it is necessary to balance the inherent tensions with traditional examination-oriented approaches, raise professional standards and competency expectations for physical education teachers, demand greater creativity and innovation from educators, transcend the boundaries of schools to enhance home-school-community sports integration, systematically promote reforms in school physical education, and possess continuously evolving and enriching content. This study identifies ten main reform directions outlined by the “Beijing’s Eight Measures,”namely, “increasing time allocation”, “enriching curricular content”, “engaging all students” “enhancing quality”, “pursuing precision”, “forming partnerships”, “stimulating motivation”, “optimizing resource utilization”,“improving management”, and “pioneering innovation”. Nevertheless, each of these directions faces particular practical implementation dilemmas, for which targeted countermeasures have been proposed.