China News Service, Beijing, August 17. The 16th Paralympic Games will be held in Tokyo, Japan from August 24 to September 5, 2021, and the Chinese sports delegation will be established in Beijing on the 17th.

The total number of delegations is 437, including 251 athletes (119 male athletes and 132 female athletes). They will compete in 20 major events and 341 sub-sports, which is the largest number of Chinese participating in the Paralympic Games abroad. One session.

　　Chinese athletes participating in the Tokyo Paralympics come from 24 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country, including 8 ethnic groups including Han, Mongolian, and Miao.

The average age of the athletes is 27.5 years, the oldest is 56 years old (table tennis, Zhao Ping), and the youngest is 16 years old (swimming, Jiang Yuyan).

The athletes are all amateurs, and their occupations include workers, farmers, students, civil servants, employees, and freelancers.

　　The Tokyo Paralympic Games has 22 major events and 539 minor events. The Chinese delegation will participate in 20 major events and 341 minor events. This is the largest number of major events that China has participated in overseas.

Four of the collective events were fully covered. Badminton and Taekwondo entered the Paralympic Games for the first time this time, and the Chinese delegation teamed up to participate.

　　The Chinese delegation attaches great importance to the prevention and control of the epidemic, has increased the protection of the medical team, and formulated a thorough epidemic prevention and control plan. Each sports team has set up an epidemic prevention and control commissioner. Implement the epidemic prevention and control policy requirements, do a good job in epidemic prevention and control in all aspects and all links to ensure safe participation.

The vaccination rate of sports teams reached 100%.

　　Zhang Haidi, the head of the Chinese sports delegation of the Tokyo Paralympic Games and the chairman of the Chinese Disabled strength.

All members of the Chinese delegation will go all out to complete the Tokyo Paralympic Games, and achieve the goal of participating safely, showing spirit, striving for success, passing friendship, sports performance and spiritual civilization.

　　It is reported that 4,400 athletes from about 160 countries and regions will participate in the Tokyo Paralympic Games. This is the 10th time that China will organize a team to participate in the Summer Paralympic Games.

Since the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games, the Chinese Paralympic delegation has achieved four consecutive gold medals and medals.

　　From August 19, the Chinese sports delegation will go to Tokyo to participate in the Paralympic Games in 4 batches.

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