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China to Send 36 Sports Coaches to Mexico

A group of 31 Chinese coaches will leave Beijing Monday for Mexico to help train local athletes. Five more coaches will go there later.


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A group of 31 Chinese coaches will leave Beijing Monday for Mexico to help train local athletes. Five more coaches will go there later.

This is the largest patch of Chinese coaches ever sent abroad.

All being specialists in their respective sports, the 36 coaches involve 12 sports and disciplines including table tennis, swimming, badminton, diving, weightlifting and shooting.

At a party held here on Sunday, a ranking official of the national sports authorities urged the coaches to do a good job in Mexico. They are asked to make more friends and try to achieve well in their respective fields to impress the hosting country, said Zhang Faqiang, vice-minister of the State General Administration of Sports.

The coaches are also urged to make contributions to the mutual understanding of the Chinese and Mexican peoples and let the Mexicans to know more about China, the Chinese people and the country's policies of reforms and opening to the outside world.

The dispatch of the Chinese coaches is part of a Sino-Mexican cultural and sports exchange agreement reached last year.

The hosts hope the arrival of Chinese coach will help Mexicans to perform better both at the Pan-American Games later this year and the Athens Olympic Games in 2004.

China has being sending coaches abroad ever since 1957 and up to now has sent a total of more than 2,400 coaches in 28 sports to116 countries and regions, according to the national sports administration.


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