[Explanation] On September 23, the 2022-2023 season CBA league press conference was held in Beijing, marking the official launch of the new season CBA league.

　　[Explanation] Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association and chairman of the CBA Company, who is accompanying the women's basketball national team in Australia to compete in the Women's Basketball World Cup, sent a video speech. He introduced that the new season will officially start on October 10, and the first stage will still take the game. The competition method will be held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

　　[Concurrent] Yao Ming, Chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, Chairman of the CBA Company

　　The exciting scenes of the finals last season are still fresh in my mind, and the new season of the CBA league is just around the corner.

The new season of the CBA league will officially start in October. The first stage of the competition will be settled in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Please pay more attention to the CBA league and Chinese basketball.

　　[Explanation] Xu Jicheng, member of the Party Committee of the Chinese Basketball Association and member of the leadership group of the Chinese Basketball Association, said at the meeting that the CBA league during the new crown epidemic brought together the power of everyone's love, and was a "energy field" that warms people's hearts and inspires morale.

　　[Concurrent] Xu Jicheng, member of the Party Committee of the Chinese Basketball Association, member of the leadership group of the Chinese Basketball Association

　　As Asia's top event, in addition to hundreds of fascinating professional basketball events, the CBA League is also a melting pot for tempering the talents of the national team.

During the epidemic, it is a "energy field" that warms people's hearts and inspires morale.

The CBA League brings together the power of everyone's love, so that countless Chinese people can see that in our ordinary life, everyone is making their greatest unremitting efforts.

　　[Explanation] Zhang Xiong, CEO of CBA, introduced that the new season will continue to uphold the concept of making basketball a way of life, and improve the level of competition and league operations.

　　[Concurrent] Zhang Xiong, CEO of CBA

　　The upcoming new season is the 28th season in the history of the CBA league and the sixth season in which the Chinese Basketball Association has authorized CBA to operate the league.

We will continue to uphold the concept of making basketball a way of life, and further improve the level of competition and the level of league operations.

　　[Explanation] It is understood that the CBA regular season in the new season will increase to 42 rounds (38 rounds last season), and there has been no change in the foreign aid policy, and the foreign aid policy of four quarters and four times will be extended.

In addition, in the new season of CBA, the theme of "one city, one team, one person" will be launched, and fans will be invited to vote for the stars of the 20 teams who can best represent the home team.

　　Dong Zeyu and Xing Chong report from Beijing

Responsible editor: [Li Ji]