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China's Dancing Sports, an organization at the forefront of sports development in China, and Filipino senator and boxing legend Manny Pacquiao, recently inked a comprehensive agreement to develop and promote professional boxing in China.

Dancing Sports president Vincent Zhou and Pacquiao signed the agreement in an elaborate ceremony on December 2 at the Diaoyutai Hotel in Beijing which was attended by Chinese dignitaries and representatives from the Chinese media.

Part of the agreement was the establishment of the Manny Pacquiao International Boxing Academy (PIBA) in China envisioned to become an instrument to attract, train and develop Chinese world class boxers and to regularly promote professional boxing matches all over China.





“This agreement of course will definitely shower a new boxing era in our sports and will contribute to help realize our great potential in boxing,” Zhou said.

Pacquiao, who was in Bejing from Dec. 1 to 3 to also attend the Chinese Communist Party's 'World Political Parties Dialogue' said, “Yesterday, I met with President Xi and Prime Minister Li Keqiang, and I am glad that the high level relationship between China and the Philippines is going further. President Xi's Belt and Road initiative is very important, it will help countries along exchanges and cooperation at all levels across borders. It is not difficult to see that the signing of this comprehensive agreement is exactly the implementation of the two top leadership initiatives of China and an important action to promote cooperation between China and the Philippines.”

China has 1.3 billion. There must be a talent pool.

Strange that never 1 single top boxer came out of china, yet japan who have far less people are producing good boxer.

Jip wrote: ↑04 Dec 2017, 08:17 China has 1.3 billion. There must be a talent pool.

Strange that never 1 single top boxer came out of china, yet japan who have far less people are producing good boxer.

That's the same with like India. over 1 billion people.. But India focus more on other sports e.g. Cricket.

It's not strange that China hasn't developed world class professional boxers... There is no infrastructure of professionals, coaches, gyms, promoters, and regular shows. There aren’t enough professional boxers to easily match boxers up and put shows together.

China has been concentrating on education, agriculture, technology, engineering, electronics, manufacturing, construction, transportation, communication, business administration, and expanding their footprint as the world’s top economic power. Only in recent years have they shown major interest in Western sports.

Basketball has been growing and they’re producing some NBA caliber players. Tennis is a growing sport in China and they have some decent players. Baseball has been slow to develop and hasn’t caught on big like it has in Japan. American style Football is nowhere. Mixed Martial Arts and Boxing are combat sports that have a lot of fan interest in China. English, German, and Spanish are languages that students are beginning to study more broadly and it’s starting to pay off.

China is now the top economic power in the world with a trade surplus last year of 510 billion dollars – while the United States in the most indebted country in the world with a trade deficit of 510 billion dollar last year.. America also has the most indebted taxpayers in the world as out economy is weighed down by debt. Our GDP has been struggling to expand for 15 years because each taxpayer owes thousands of dollars yearly in interest on the debt – not that we pay it, and that’s the reason it’s rising so rapidly. We don’t. We pretend it’s not a problem and it will bite us.

The Chinese are definitely paranoid about debt, trade, growth, and manufacturing and only recently turned their attention to developing Western style sports and sports stars. This is obviously going to take them a few years. At least 10.

chinas had some decent amateurs