Original title: <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/06/chinas-three-person-basketball-national-team-goes-to-yao-ming-the-guarantee-of-the-basketball-association-is-your-backing_competition_league_wcba/" title="China's three-person basketball national team goes to Yao Ming: the guarantee of the Basketball Association is your backing_Competition_League_WCBA”>Guo Zhenming succeeds Yao Ming as chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 31 (Reporter Li Bowen and Cao Yibo) The Executive Committee of the 10th Chinese Basketball Association Member Congress held a meeting in Beijing on the 31st. It reviewed and approved Yao Ming’s application to resign as chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association and elected Guo Zhenming as the new Chinese Basketball Association. President of the Basketball Association.
Yao Ming said that such a decision was made after careful consideration and based on considerations and personal plans for the development of Chinese basketball. He thanked the State Sports General Administration and the Chinese Basketball Association Executive Committee for their trust, and also thanked the basketball family for their care. “No matter in the past, present or future, basketball has always been my passion. I hope everyone will join me in supporting Chinese basketball in the future.”
The person who succeeded Yao Ming as chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association is Guo Zhenming, Secretary of the Joint Party Committee of the Chinese Basketball Association of the Basketball Management Center of the State Sports General Administration and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association. He has joined the Chinese Basketball Association since early 2022 and works with Yao Ming.
Guo Zhenming first thanked the State Sports General Administration and the Chinese Basketball Association Executive Committee for their trust. He also expressed his gratitude to Yao Ming for his selfless dedication to the Chinese basketball industry and the work results he achieved during his tenure. He said: “These works have laid a good foundation for the sustainable development of Chinese basketball. As Yao Ming is about to start a new chapter in his life, on behalf of all my colleagues in the Chinese Basketball Association, I would like to express my sincere condolences to him and his family who have always supported him. bless.”
Guo Zhenming said: “The Chinese Basketball Association’s baton is a heavy responsibility and a glorious mission. Under the guidance of the State Sports General Administration, we will work together with all basketball people to continue to deepen basketball reform and strive to Contribute to the revitalization of the ‘three major sports’ and the construction of a sports power.”
The Party Leadership Group of the State Sports General Administration spoke positively of Yao Ming’s work as chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association and expressed sincere gratitude. The Party Leadership Group of the State Sports General Administration believes that Yao Ming has done a lot of fruitful work in laying a solid foundation for popular basketball, building a professional league system, improving the level of the national team, promoting the integration of sports and education, and promoting the construction of the basketball industry and culture. He has accumulated a lot of experience during his tenure. Human resources, institutional resources, and social resources have laid a solid foundation for further deepening institutional reform and promoting high-quality development of projects. It is hoped that Yao Ming will give full play to his social popularity and international influence and continue to actively contribute to the development of basketball.
On February 23, Yao Ming was at the Greater Bay Area International Sports Business Summit. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia
Yao Ming is an iconic figure in Chinese basketball. He has made brilliant achievements as a professional basketball player in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). In July 2011, Yao Ming announced his retirement and received the Shanghai Magnolia Sports Lifetime Achievement Award. In November 2016, Yao Ming was elected vice chairman of CBA. At the 9th National Congress of the Chinese Basketball Association held in February 2017, Yao Ming was elected chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association for the first time. In July of the same year, Yao Ming was elected chairman of CBA Company. In June 2019, Yao Ming was elected chairman of the Asian Basketball Federation. In December 2022, Yao Ming was re-elected as chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association. In August 2023, Yao Ming was selected into the 2023 FIBA Hall of Fame. Previously, Yao Ming, who played for the NBA’s Houston Rockets, was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.
During his tenure as chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, Yao Ming actively promoted the physical reform of the association and launched the “dual national training team” model. The CBA League also made innovations in competition systems, drafts, business promotions, etc., and vigorously promoted the integration of sports and education as well as “small “Basketball” and the popularization of three-person basketball. In terms of national team performance, in October 2022, the Chinese women’s basketball team won the World Cup runner-up, tying the best result in history in this event. In July 2023, the Chinese women’s basketball team won the Asian Cup again after 12 years. In the 2019 Basketball World Cup, the Chinese men’s basketball team, as the host nation, ranked 24th with only 2 wins and 3 losses. In the 2023 Basketball World Cup, the Chinese men’s basketball team ranked 29th among 32 teams, setting a new low in the team’s participation in the World Cup and missing the Olympic Games for two consecutive years.
