Blogging Matters!!! : The Chinese Affair (Part Deux)

Day 40.

This is part 2 of 'The Chinese Affair'. In the first part I briefly talked about the Chinese Sports Industry. Tonight we'll be looking at 2 cardinal events which built and constructed the Sports Industry in China and are the vindication to the laurels achieved by Chinese athletes and sports industry together. So, let's get the blog rolling now, shall we? -

The Ping - Pong Diplomacy : -

History -

• To understand sports, their amelioration, you need to understand the history behind them. Since I am dealing with the modern sports and industry, hence we'll be only going back about 40 years.
• The first major beacon in the path to China's sports industry construction was the Ping-Pong Diplomacy (peculiar name though, I digress) of 1971 between U.S.and China.

Sports Industry -

• This was like a cartel which was betwixt U.S.and China. The good thing for sports was that as a consequence of this alliance, American players began travelling to the 'land of the dragon', for ping-pong.
• This also signaled China's entrance in the world of 'cultural revolution' and had denounced its self-imposition from world sports' participation.
• These matches were a revelation for the Chinese Sports Industry who realized that Sports can be used to display their firepower.

Chinese Football Association : -

History -

• The Chinese Football Association (CFA) was formed in 1924, but its real role in shaping the Chinese Sports Industry begins from 1994.
• The CFA formed a professional football league which consisted of twelve local clubs.

Sports Industry -

• Due to the construction of these clubs and leagues, a number of global bodies took their events to China.
• For the first time Sports officials and players together were assisted with the market reforms that happened in the 90's.
• Although the officials benefiting were very few and foreign sport properties were still a dream, the 90's or CFA per-se paved way to the biggest construction of industry of sport which took place in the following decade. (The Olympics). We also need to understand that development, building or construction of an industry takes time, it takes effort.

Alrighty then. So, I hope that we are now acquainted with the 2 most cardinal events that transpired China's Industry of Sports. However, there is a 3rd event and perhaps the most important one, which I'll take up separately in tomorrow's blog.

Your turn Readerland. Reply back with your comments! What other events can you tell of which constructed the industry in China? What were its effects on the athletes? What would be the event that I hinted, for tomorrow's blog? Write anything, but please do comment.

Thanks for Reading.

Thought Of The Day : - ''Confound not truth with falsehood, nor knowingly conceal the truth.''