The top-class sports teams being nurtured by universities are a sign of China's sporting future. At the moment, the facilities for such teams are not as good as for the national teams, we will give some support to them in the future.

All the athletes should be back in training soon after a short rest to ensure they are fit for next year's Asian Games. The Asian Games in Doha next year will be a big task for us and we should make full use of winter training to improve.

We can hardly do anything about it. Chinese athletics has long been troubled by this problem.

We will further discuss the regular patterns and characteristics of each event during the training camps and we will also bring in new blood for the national track and field team.

The number of athletes we send abroad next year will be twice as many as this year. We are also working at sending middle distance runners and throwers abroad to train.

For most of us, it's a time for us to get together and talk about our past, present and future. The Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in China. It's very much like Christmas or Thanksgiving in the United States.