Live Bar, July 23 -yao Ming, chairman of China Basketball Association, appeared in Huai’an, Jiangsu province, attending the opening ceremony of Jiangsu enterprise basketball league and delivered a speech.

Fu zhenghaofa, a senior media person, talked about this matter. The original text is as follows:

Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, took the time to attend the opening ceremony of Jiangsu enterprise basketball league on July 22. Jiangsu enterprise Basketball League is the first provincial enterprise basketball league in China, which is of great demonstration significance for popularizing basketball in the business community. In his speech, Yao Ming affirmed the Jiangsu basketball league and said that Chinese basketball needs such diversified development.

Yao Ming also said emotionally that the lively scene of Jiangsu enterprise basketball league reminded himself of his father’s taking himself to the unit basketball match when he was a child. To say more, although Yao Ming was born in Shanghai, his ancestral home was jiangsu. His father Yao Zhiyuan was born in Jiangsu. He was an enterprise worker at first in his early years and was later discovered as a basketball player. In the 1990 s of our country, enterprises in the developed coastal areas in the South often organized various kinds of enterprise basketball matches, and powerful enterprises also invited professional basketball players to be “foreign aid” with high salaries. This atmosphere continues to this day. Guangdong Southern Tigers founder Chen Lin (known as Uncle Lin) is a basketball master, and he often organizes enterprise basketball matches. Many retired national players in the North devote themselves to his command, therefore, Hongyuan founded the first professional basketball club in China in 1993.

In fact, the mass base of basketball in our country has always been very solid. Basketball was introduced to Tianjin in our country five years after its invention in the United States and soon rose everywhere, including the People’s Liberation Army who liked playing basketball very much. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, China’s sports policy is to “develop sports and enhance people’s physical fitness”. The focus of sports work is to pay special attention to the popularization of sports. Therefore, basketball matches were everywhere at that time. Farmers, soldiers, workers and students all liked playing basketball, regardless of men, women and children. Basketball has been regarded as the largest sport in China in recent years, not only thanks to the promotion of NBA and CBA, but also has a profound mass heritage at the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

After returning to the Olympic Games in 1979, China’s sports work adjusted its thinking, requiring sports committees at all levels to “focus on improvement under the premise of combining popularization and improvement”, and winning glory for the Olympics replaced mass sports as the focus of sports work, the scene of mass sports is temporarily over. Nowadays, with the introduction of the strategy of sports power and healthy China, our country no longer blindly pursues Olympic gold medals, but hopes to set off the climax of national fitness and mass sports again to enhance people’s sense of happiness.

Under this background, as a social organization that launches and organizes the masses to participate in basketball and plays the link between the national sports administrative department and the public, the Chinese Basketball Association should not only grasp the achievements of the national team, we should also come up with powerful incentive measures and honor mechanisms to encourage enterprises and other organizations to hold events. After all, how many events can we hold directly by the Chinese Basketball Association? There is a famous village BA in Guizhou. I would like to call the Jiangsu enterprise basketball league as the factory BA. I hope that the Chinese Basketball Association will give support and care to more BA.