Liaoning radio and television sports channel @ Liaowang sports speaks for Zhou Qi’s participation in the National Games on behalf of Sichuan men’s basketball. The following is the original text:

1. The National Games cannot be reduced to “professional games”. Sichuan “peach picking” Zhou Qi has done great harm to talents training provinces and Chinese sports.

In response to the recent Red Star News report of Sichuan Chengdu Business Daily, Liaoning Basketball player Zhou Qi will represent Sichuan in the 15th National Games in 2025, wang Ping, director of Hunnan sports training base of Liaoning Sports Development Center, explained the situation on June 30. She said: “In the 2025 National Games athletes registration system, Zhou Qi has indeed registered in Sichuan Sports Bureau, but Liaoning sports bureau has filed a complaint with the State Sports General Administration as early as the registration deadline. Zhou Qi is an excellent athlete trained by Liaoning. The National Games with provinces and cities as participating units is not a commercial professional games, relying on ‘burning money’ to poach Zhou Qi’s behavior of buying results from buyers has greatly affected the fair competition environment, seriously damaged the interests of athletes training provinces, and caused great harm to the healthy and sustainable development of Chinese competitive sports!”

2. Zhou Qi revealed that Sichuan’s offer of 6 million yuan could not refuse the labor relations of its professional athletes had been in Liaoning.

Regarding Zhou Qi’s transfer to Sichuan Sports Bureau for registration, Wang Ping said: “In the 2025 National Games athlete registration inquiry system, we have now found that Zhou Qi’s registration unit is Sichuan Sports Bureau, and the registration time is 2023 to 2025. However, before the deadline for registration of athletes in the National Games in May 31 this year, Liaoning provincial sports bureau had officially submitted the “report on representative capacity of Liaoning athletes Zhou Qi National Games” to the competition department of the State Sports General Administration. Zhou Qi complained about the registration of the National Games in 2025, hoping to be dealt with fairly by the General Administration, but no reply has been received yet.” Wang Ping revealed the details that he had discussed with Zhou Qi many times before, hoping that he could sign the registration form of athletes representing Liaoning in the 2025 National Games. “Before, we had been constantly communicating and communicating with Zhou Qi, and the leaders of Liaoning sports bureau and coaches of Liaoning men’s basketball also communicated with him many times. I talked with Zhou Qi many times to see what he needed. During my interview with Zhou Qi in Qingdao, I talked for the first time for a long time. From 6 p.m. to 12 p.m., he was still very emotional about Liaoning, he has always been grateful to Liaoning who has cultivated him. It is very recognized that Liaoning cultivated him and appreciated Liaoning.” However, when talking about the treatment of Liaoning, the most critical representative, participating in the National Games, Wang Ping revealed that the differences between the two sides were very large, “Zhou Qi said that other provinces had already offered very generous conditions, he promised to invite him to play for the province in the 2025 National Games with a reward of 6 million yuan. The price of 6 million yuan is really unacceptable to our Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau. Finally, due to the problem of treatment, Zhou Qi did not agree to sign the registration form of athletes representing Liaoning in the 2025 National Games.” Wang Ping said bluntly that as we all know, Zhou Qi came to Fuxin basketball school in Liaoning at the age of 9 to receive training, entered Liaoning sports school at the age of 11, entered Liaoning professional team at the age of 14, and began to enjoy the salary and related treatment of Liaoning professional athletes. For 13 years, Even after Zhou Qi transferred to the Xinjiang men’s basketball club, Liaoning never stopped offering salary to Zhou Qi, continuing to grant various benefits and enjoying the same treatment as other professional athletes in Liaoning, such as injury treatment, recovery, etc. As an outstanding athlete trained by Liaoning, Zhou Qi has the responsibility and obligation to continue to represent Liaoning province in the National Games.

3. The National Games is not a professional league match. It is necessary to refuse “All sports self-employed” and “burn money”. The buyer’s buying performance greatly hurts the interests of the province.

The National Games is not a professional competition. Zhou Qi’s behavior of being “picked peaches” by other provinces deviates from the purpose of holding the most important games in the country. Wang Ping said: “There is a big difference between the National Games and the professional league. The National Games is a competition platform for athletes from various provinces and cities to fight for their hometown. The main body of the competition is administrative units such as provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. Like paying such a high price to dig Zhou Qi, making the registration of athletes in the national games evolve into a complete commercial behavior will seriously disturb the competition order and affect fair and just competition. Moreover, it will greatly dampen the enthusiasm, emotion and enthusiasm of all provinces and cities that seriously grasp the youth training. Therefore, the communication of athletes should be orderly and should be conducted in a fair and just environment where the advantages of each participating unit are complementary.” As a major province of sports talents, Liaoning has suffered from serious loss of talents for many years. Top talents like Zhou Qi have been dug away by other provinces to participate in the National Games. Zheng Yuyin, a Liaoning athlete who won the women’s taekwondo gold medal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016, was poached and represented Shanxi in the last National Games and Tokyo Olympic Games. Wang Ping said bluntly: “If the short-term behavior of ‘burning money, ‘buying people and ‘picking Peaches’ becomes more and more fierce, then more provinces will be encouraged to spend a lot of money to buy players, those provinces that train athletes through youth training will be hurt even more. In the long run, which other provinces are willing to grasp the youth training at ease?! This is a great harm and irresponsible to the youth training provinces that have invested a lot of time, manpower and material resources and worked hard to cultivate excellent athletes. The healthy development of China’s competitive sports needs positive energy. We must work hard, consolidate the foundation of youth training, and train and transport talents for the country. No deviation is allowed or allowed!” Chinese football is crazy “burning money”, and the painful lesson that finally caused serious damage to the project development is just around the corner. Wang Ping said: “The previous Chinese professional football league is a typical negative example. Clubs blindly follow the trend of” burning money “and” burning “until the end, wasting a lot of money on the signing fee and high salary of players who deviate from the ability level of players, seriously ignoring the youth training, and finally leading to the dissolution and withdrawal of dozens of clubs, It has caused great harm to Chinese football. Once the situation of “looking at money” spreads in the National Games and permeates various projects, the harm to Chinese sports will be huge.”

4. Looking forward to a reasonable solution to Zhou Qi’s problem, we should put an end to the phenomenon of “all self-employed households”.

On the issue of Zhou Qi’s qualification, Liaoning provincial sports bureau has been actively communicating with relevant departments of the State Sports General Administration, and has also kept in touch with Zhou Qi himself. Wang Ping said: “Zhou Qi grew up in Liaoning. Over the years, he has been trained and loved by training units at all levels in Liaoning. His growth has devoted his painstaking efforts to coaches and training systems at all levels in Liaoning. Our concern for Zhou Qi is reflected in all aspects of training, competition and life, including the CBA league. Liaoning provincial sports bureau also cares for him and gives him great support. We sent team doctors to serve Zhou Qi during the league match. In addition, the management responsibilities of Zhou Qi’s professional athletes are also the responsibility of Liaoning Sports Bureau. In terms of registration qualification in 2025, we are still actively communicating with Zhou Qi, hoping that he can continue to represent Liaoning. After all, Zhou Qi represented Liaoning in the 12th, 13th and 14th National Games and won a youth group champion and two U22 group champions.” Liao basket has attracted much attention and expectations from the people of the whole province. Everyone hopes that Zhou Qi can continue to represent Liaoning in the 15th National Games and help Liaoning men’s basketball achieve the U22 group three successive championships. Wang Ping said: “In our communication with Zhou Qi, Zhou Qi also said that on the registration issue of the 2025 national games, if Liaoning’s appeal succeeds, Sichuan loses the right to register, then he is willing to represent Liaoning unconditionally in the 15th National Games. The heads of relevant departments of the State Sports General Administration also promised that they would seriously study the complaints of Liaoning sports bureau and make true verdict.” The four-year National Games is not only a big competition of Sports forces in various provinces and cities, but also shoulders the heavy responsibility of selecting and training top athletes for the national team. The National Games must not be transformed into “professional games”. The registration of athletes in the National Games needs fairness and justice, In order to proceed in an orderly manner, it is necessary to plug the loopholes in the rules, develop more reasonable and perfect registration methods with the times, and completely block the occurrence of the phenomenon of “all-running self-employed households” and “all-running mercenaries, protect the rights and interests of athletes and cultivate the enthusiasm of provinces and cities in terms of policy orientation. Only by refusing to burn money to “pick peaches” and guarding the pure land of the National Games can China’s competitive sports develop healthily and sustainably.