BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) — Here are the most recent Chinese sports activities headlines from the previous week:
1. Preparations accomplished for ninth Asian Winter Games
All preparatory works, together with lodging, transportation and catering, for the Harbin 2025 Asian Winter Games have been accomplished, the spokesperson for the occasion introduced on January 22.
The flame for the Games was lit on January 20 on the Sun Island Scenic Area, which additionally marked the beginning of an internet torch relay.
During the Games, 40 trains will journey on daily basis between Harbin and Yabuli, the place ice and snow occasions respectively can be held, together with six high-speed trains that had been put into service on January 21. Additionally, to make sure easy operations in the course of the Games, 17 check occasions had been organized.
The 2025 competitors would be the second time Harbin has hosted the Asian Winter Games, having staged the occasion’s third version in 1996.
2. China to ship 170 athletes to Harbin 2025 Asian Winter Games

China unveiled on January 24 a 257-member delegation, together with 170 athletes, for the 2025 Asian Winter Games.
Comprising 85 males and 85 ladies, the squad is headlined by six Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic champions: Gu Ailing, Xu Mengtao, Qi Guangpu, Gao Tingyu, Fan Kexin and Liu Shaoang.
Their common age is 23, with the group starting from a 40-year-old veteran to a 16-year-old newcomer. They will compete in 64 occasions throughout six sports activities.
3. China finishes Turin 2025 Winter Universiade with 5 medals

China concluded the Turin 2025 Winter Universiade with one gold, three silvers, and one bronze medal, all from quick observe velocity skating competitions.
The solely gold got here from males’s 5,000 relay on Jan. 23 as Liu Guanyi, Song Guixu, Li Kun, and Zhang Tianyi crossed the road in six minutes and 57.044 seconds forward of Japan and Kazakhstan.
Chinese skaters additionally bagged silvers in ladies’s 3,000m relay, ladies’s 500m and blended workforce relay occasions and bronze in ladies’s 1,000m.
4. Jiang/Wei win blended doubles title at badminton’s India Open

Young Chinese pair Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin claimed a straight-game victory to win the blended doubles gold on the 2025 India Open in New Delhi on January 19.
Second-seeded Jiang and Wei took 43 minutes to defeat French shuttlers Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue 21-18, 21-17.
“This championship is a great inspiration for us. We faced a lot of difficulties this week, but we overcame them all,” mentioned Wei after the match.
5. China establishes impartial federation to run skilled soccer leagues

The Chinese Professional Football League (CFL) was formally established in Beijing on January 23 as an impartial federation to supervise all ranges of China’s skilled soccer leagues.
At the inaugural CFL basic meeting in Beijing, representatives from 52 Chinese skilled soccer golf equipment elected a 17-member council, with former head of Tianjin’s Sports Administration Li Kemin being named director.
The CFL will act as a member affiliation of the Chinese Football Association, independently overseeing the group of Chinese Super League, China League One and China League Two, whereas the CFA stays chargeable for supervising main rules.