The China Health Qigong Association, under the joint supervision of the General Administration of the Sports and Civil Affairs Ministry, advised people to do qigong exercise, as people must stay at home due to China’s fight against the novel coronavirus.
Qigong is an ancient system of coordinated body-posture, movement, breathing, and meditation used for the purposes of health, martial-arts, and spiritual exercise.
The most famous qigong exercise in China was Falun Gong which the Chinese Communist Party banned and has persecuted since 1999.
Excerpt in Chinese:
三、提倡居家练功，鼓励在家科学锻炼健身气功，每天练功1个小时，既可一次性锻炼完成，也可分上、下午两次锻炼。可通过中国健身气功协会微信公众号、学习强国等互联网媒介，查阅健身气功相关功法教学视频和图文知识，学练或提升健身气功功法技能，增进身心健康，提高自身机体防治疾病能力。
抗击疫情，人人有责；居家练功，从我做起。让我们共同行动起来，充分发挥健身气功这一民族传统体育运动的优势和特色，为夺取抗击疫情的最后胜利发挥积极作用！
Source: General Administration of Sport website, February 25, 2020
http://www.sport.gov.cn/n316/n343/n1195/c943454/content.html