The report of the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) clearly points out the new journey of “promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in a comprehensive manner through Chinese-style modernisation”. As an important part of the modernisation of the country, sports modernisation is bound to follow the path of Chinese-style modernisation and open up new directions, paths and paradigms of Chinese-style sports modernisation that meet the national conditions of China and the needs of the times. Based on the conceptual analysis of Chinese-style modernisation and Chinese-style sports modernisation, this paper puts forward the connotation of Chinese-style sports modernisation itself: the landmark cause of promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and explores the development path of Chinese-style sports modernisation from the development dilemma existing in terms of the effectiveness of sports governance, spiritual culture, science and technology, and professional talents. It also explores the development path of Chinese-style sports modernisation from the development dilemmas in sports governance effectiveness, spiritual culture, science and technology, professional talents, etc. It includes optimising the sports governance system and governance capacity to provide systematic guarantee for Chinese-style sports modernisation; promoting Chinese sports culture to stimulate the intrinsic motivation of Chinese-style sports modernisation; enhancing scientific and technological innovations to accelerate the better realisation of Chinese-style sports modernisation; and perfecting the system of sports talents cultivation to support the sustained development of Chinese-style sports modernisation, etc., with a view to contributing wisdom for the realisation of the strategic objective of a strong sports nation.