At the event, Liu Guoliang, Chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association made a speech.

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  China News Service, October 12th. On the 11th, the China Table Tennis Association held an open competition and exchange meeting for coaches of the national table tennis youth training team and children's training team.

At the meeting, Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Table Tennis Association, stated that he would openly and transparently select talents, lower the threshold, break barriers and restrictions, and mobilize all social forces to actively participate in the table tennis business.

  In August of this year, the Chinese Table Tennis Association officially announced that it would establish a national table tennis youth training team and a children's training team at the end of the year.

In order to ensure the quality of training, find outstanding table tennis reserve talents, and at the same time uphold the concept of educating people and moral education first, and guide and ensure the integration of sports and education and healthy growth of young people and children, the China Table Tennis Association will be open to the whole society from September 14 Open recruitment of 4 head coaches of the National Youth Team and the National Youth Team.

  As of October 2nd, the China Table Tennis Association received a total of 206 application resumes. After the National Championships ended in Weihai on October 10th, 127 coaches participated in the competition and exchange activities for coaches of national youth and junior high school students.

National table tennis players participated in the activity.

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  At the site of the competition and exchange meeting on the 11th, Liu Guoliang, Chairman of the China Table Tennis Association, Qin Zhijian, Secretary-General of the China Table Tennis Association and head coach of the National Table Tennis Men’s Team, Li Wei, head coach of the National Table Tennis Women’s Team, Lu Yuansheng, a member of the Chinese Table Tennis Association preparing for the Tokyo Olympics staff, Yin Xiao, Li Xiaodong, all national table tennis coaches, as well as 16 national team main players and first-line athletes including Ma Long and Xu Xin, and representatives of 20 provincial and municipal teams participating in the national championships all appeared.

  During the meeting, Liu Guoliang gave high affirmation and evaluation to the coaches participating in this competition, and from the historical evolution of the national youth and national youth training teams, the preparatory work, the background and significance of the establishment, the future youth of the association The planning and prospects of training camps, competitions, points system, and integration of sports and education were comprehensively and in-depth explained.

  Liu Guoliang emphasized that after the substantive reform of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, it conforms to the needs of the times, society and industry, while retaining the original three-level training network traditional model, it is truly oriented to society, clubs, schools, and individuals. , Multi-channel, omni-directional, open and transparent selection and employment of talents, lower thresholds, break barriers and restrictions, and mobilize all social forces to actively participate in the table tennis business.

Event scene.

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  In addition, Liu Guoliang put forward higher expectations and requirements for the coaches of future table tennis events.

"Whether it is coaching in the national team to win glory for the country, or coaching in the community to promote national fitness, whether it is to coach high-level athletes with outstanding talents, or to train and transport talents at the grassroots level, we hope that our coaches will be able to coach at different levels. , Accumulate extensive experience, and continuously improve and progress.".

  There are three processes in the competition for coaches of the National Youth and National Youth Coaches: primary, secondary and final selection.

In order to fully reflect the openness, fairness and impartiality of this competition, at the preliminary and re-election stages, a computer random lottery method was used at the competition and exchange meeting, and all the candidates were divided into groups to prepare for the senior staff of the staff. Coaches and coaches of the national team will serve as judges.

  On October 12th, from among the 30 candidates who entered the final election, four main candidates will be selected by using a third-party online voting system to present the voting results on the spot. The coaches are selected and the coaching teams are eventually formed.

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