The study updates the importance of the pedagogical conditions of the school physical-sports environment and family physical education for the formation of social, ethnic, personal-cultural tolerance among Chinese adolescents. The issue of tolerance in the age aspect is considered, differences in the tolerant manifestations of boys and girls, boys and girls in a single ethno-group (Chinese students of the Han people) are taken into account. It is argued that the educational policy of the school and the ways of differentiated motor physical and sports participation of girls and boys are embodied in the peculiarities of their behavioural activity, affect the process of forming the personal and psychological qualities of schoolchildren, and are manifested in tolerant attitudes of communicative, intercultural and interethnic communication. The development of positive tolerance is facilitated by nationally oriented programs of motor activity, built in the form of effective practices, they will be able to provide a positive influence on the behavioral component of ethnic identity.