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Strong base is formed Chinese Champions

China has several world-class sports training facilities around the country, many of which have helped to lay the groundwork for China's Olympic success.

The following eight facilities are some of the best-known training bases in China and have produced some of the country's most talented and decorated athletes:

Duoba

Duoba, China in the best training base high and one of the best in the world, is known both as the "Cradle of World Champions" and "Factory Gold Medal."

Located in Huangzhong county in Qinghai Plateau in northwest China Qingzang province, which lies 2365 meters above sea level, where the average annual temperature is 6.5 C above zero. It has been the training ground for the national swimming team in China, shooting team and track and field team since the 1990s.

Duoba training base has generated a vast array of world champions and Olympic stars in China over the past two decades. The group is best known for the legendary Chinese group distance running equipment "Ma", who won four gold medals, two silver and two bronze at the 1993 Stuttgart World Championships.

Lin Dan

Xing Huina, the women of Athens 2004 Games 10,000 m gold winner, also attributes his success four years ago Duoba the unique position of geology.

Duoba used to be a military factory. In 1982, the Qinghai Sports Bureau became the basis and transformed in a state of the art training complex. The governments of Beijing and Qinghai have invested more than 2 million yuan ($ 291 million) in the reconstruction of facilities in the last 20 years.

Other sports that train at Duoba include archery, soccer, basketball, badminton, volleyball, Table Tennis, judo, wrestling free and taekwondo.

Qiandao Lake

The name of Qiandao lake, which translates to "Thousand Island Lake," explains its charm unique.

The training base is located in the heart of Lake Qiandao world famous tourism resort. It is 129 km east China city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. The place name comes from the 1078 islands scattered across 573 square kilometers of the surface area of water.

The region the water is a natural creation, however. It was formed by the construction of a hydroelectric plant in 1959.

The forest surrounding the warm weather holds of the region and humid throughout the year. The average temperature is a steady 17 C.

Rowing coach Zhang Guiting discovered the secluded water area. Was impressed by the tranquility of the area and its wide variation of water conditions, which is ideal for canoeing and rowing training.

In 2000, the team national rowing was looking for a suitable place to train athletes for the Games of Athens 2004. The team was informed of the training base, which had bought the agency Zhejiang sports to 1.64 billion yuan in 1999.

The General Administration of Sport invested another 50 million yuan to review Qiandao lake, adding world-class canoeing and rowing machines for team training.

As athletes sweat during practice, the natural beauty of the training base support alleviate some of the psychological pressure caused by repetitive training and boring at times.

In 2004, Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun, both coached and trained in Qiandao Lake, won for the first time Olympic canoeing gold in China.

Jinjiang

For many Chinese, the image of Jinjiang, a small village in Fujian province, southern China, is more associated with the sports footwear industry of the team's training base of badminton. A national Jinjiang team has trained over the past six years. It was built with donations from expatriate Chinese from the city.

Jinjiang Sports Traning Base was built in 2002, a historic low point of Chinese shuttlers. China head coach Li Yongbo, was desperate to get the team back in top form and found Jinjiang by chance. He liked the existing facilities of the base, and brought the team there for a training test. It was the beginning of a new era for badminton in China.

horrible epidemic of SARS entrenched that year and grabbed the province's transportation equipment at the base of everything. The basic training program extended from 40-100 days. Some say it was the extra days helped transform the team - China won titles in men's singles, single women and women doubles at the 2003 World Championships.

The compound formation is guarded around the clock to ensure uninterrupted training for the team.

The Jingjiang facility has a secret weapon - a huge pool full of quartz sand. Shuttlers practice in the pool, struggling against the drag sand under your feet, helping to improve circulation and flexibility.

Hongta

Despite the disappointment of the Olympic Games China's men's soccer team, their training base in Hongta, Yunnan Province, is still considered China's most extensive and well-equipped soccer complex training.

Hongta Group, which owns the Chinese cigarette brand of the same name, built and financed the training base. Originally football clubhouse first province, also called Hongta, in the 1990s, the first in the history of the province in the 1990s. When the club's popularity fell, Hongta Group decided to become a training base class.

The base covers an area of 334.3 thousand meters square Hongta Croup spent a total of 690 million yuan construction, completed in 2001.

The training base borders the scenic Dianchi Lake, one of the most famous resorts of Yunnan. The base has 11 releases to full-size outdoor soccer, 11 tennis courts and four indoor training facilities for winter sports, badminton, bowling and swimming.

Men's team from China has been used to prepare the base for almost all major international tournaments since 2001.

Women's field hockey team. [Agencies]

Zhangzhou

Priced at $ 5 million yuan, the training base for women's volleyball team in China is the most expensive volleyball stadium built in the history of China.

Every citizen in Zhangzhou, Fujian province, donated one yuan to build the stadium, a move that aims to boost team morale after its worst-ever result in the Barcelona Olympic 1992.

It was the second time in Zhangzhou people showed strong support for the volleyball team - in 1972, Zhangzhou authorities mobilized local volunteers to build a "bamboo framed stadium for the national women's team.

The foreign press once described the base as the foundation "secret" volleyball team in China. As time passed, the real secret of the team's success became known: love, affection and sincere support of the people of Zhangzhou.

Lang Ping, the world-acclaimed Chinese spiker and head coach of the U.S. team, once wrote: "We (the Chinese team as a whole) by always remember the excitement of the people who are dedicated Zhangzhou, understanding and support! "

Apart from Zhangzhou, Beilun, Zhejiang Province, will become in another house the women's volleyball team from China after the installation of 127,000 square meters of construction finishes.

Zhengding

The Zhengding National Table Tennis Training Base was built on the generous contributions of Wang Guangqing, the man who created the prototype of a training base sports for 16 years.

The physical education teacher of 70 years old, has seen his original idea of the pump out top-level tennis players table since then.

In August 1970, Wang was transferred to Zhengding County to work as a teacher at an elementary school physical education. Powered by fervent passion for table tennis, Wang organized a team of training throughout the school. He spent all his profits on the books of table tennis, and led his players in a work program after school, trying to raise money for training.

Wang perseverance paid off eight years later. Your table of 12 members of the tennis school received the expected support from the authority of the Sports City and became "China's key table tennis sports school." Success inspired Wang to turn the school into a table tennis throughout the country basic training.

Phase by phase, the school became a modern compound formation comprehensive table tennis, providing advanced solutions for equipment, facilities and training methods.

The training base is located 260 kilometers from Beijing in the province of Hebei. The proximity to the capital enabled the base to form the Chinese women's team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. The team clinch gold medal of women.

Since then, the base of 21,000 square feet of training has been designated official training venue for national teams. Cai Zhenhua, former head coach of national team table tennis, Zhengding described as "the best training base on the planet.

Jiangmen

When Li Ting and Sun Tiantian won gold for the first time China's Olympic tennis was a turning point in Chinese sports history. The Association China Tennis Association subsequently designated Jiangmen, a coastal city west of the Pearl River delta, home to the national courts base training.

Was not all a surprise - Jiangmen city had long boasted a tradition of tennis. The city hosted more than 80 court tennis and tennis was the most played local sport.

Huayuan Hotel, where the training center, sits on a beautiful island. There are eight standard tennis courts used for training. Another 12 tennis courts and a health center are scheduled to be built with an investment of 15 billion yuan.

Jiangmen has become a magnet for tennis fans in China. Tennis is also the core industry of the region.

Tennis chief Sun Jinfang said the reason for services designated Jiangmen the permanent training base for national teams is because "there is no candidate parallel to Jiangmen, which has all the desirable conditions climate, location, facilities and local support. "

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