Majoring in track and field would almost be the equivalent of general studies in China. Track and field is more like a broad department than a major. You’d major in long jump or high jump and be in the track and field department is more how it works. Kind of strange but they are very much in to event specialization for coaches. This follows from the Russian format where coaches primarily coach a single event (long jump, hammer throw, 100m) rather than an event group (throws, jumps, sprints, etc). There are very few broad event coaches and I think it was very foreign to them that I coached primarily jumps, sprints and multi-events but I was there to speak about throwing events.
Some countries in Asia are hiring American or Caribbean consultants. Sounds like it should be the other way around.