Live Bar, May 24-official news: Xu Jicheng, vice chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, served as the chairman of CBA company, and Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, no longer held the post concurrently.
Fu zhenghaofa, a senior media person, talked about Xu Jicheng, the new chairman of the board. The content is as follows:
Xu Jicheng, the new chairman of CBA company, although he is more widely known as CCTV basketball narrator among the fans, in fact he is also a professional basketball player. He has been working in basketball for more than 50 years. In his early years, he was one of the main writers of CBA’s “Polaris plan” and a participant and witness of many important historical moments and decisions of Chinese basketball. Chinese basketball is honored as XU BA, teacher da XU and BIG XU. He has made many contributions to Chinese basketball, even Chinese sports and the two Beijing Olympic Games.
In his early years, Mr. da Xu was a potential star of the youth team of the Beijing Army basketball team. After he retired due to injury, he returned to his hometown in Jinan to study in Shandong University and became a top English student. After that, he entered Xinhua news agency and became a special reporter for basketball, in the 1990 s, he was invited by Ma Guoli to explain NBA as a guest in CCTV, thus becoming a household name for basketball. He is well versed in the industrial operation of NBA and CBA, and is also a professional witness and participant of CBA league. In 2004, he was invited by Li Yuanwei, then director of the Basketball Management Center, to serve as a member of the Research Team on Chinese basketball reform, he is one of the main writers of Polaris Project.
Mr. da xu once served as a senior journalist of the sports department of xinhua news agency and an assistant of xinhua news agency director of physical education department in xinhua news agency. Because of his outstanding english ability and deep understanding of the working style of foreign media, he was also seconded to the beijing olympic organizing committee as the vice minister of the media operation department in 2008, later, he served as the minister of media operation department of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic organizing committee. I was also one of the volunteers of the media operation department of the Beijing Olympic organizing committee on 08. At that time, I had experienced teacher Xu’s amiable and enthusiastic style of doing things with the younger generation.
Teacher Xu left a lot of good news on the aspect of carrying forward the descendants and rewarding the progress. Among them, the meeting between him and Yao Ming is highly praised in the circle. Yao Ming had just entered the Shanghai youth team and was not widely known Zhishi. Teacher Xu was full of praise for him. He recommended Yao to the media many times during the Sydney Olympics. When Yao Ming was in the NBA draft, teacher Xu accompanied him as an interpreter. When Yao Ming retired, he was also the host of teacher Xu. After Yao Ming retired, he became a member of the CPPCC, he said frankly that many proposals have also listened to teacher Xu’s suggestions.
It is worth mentioning that Wang Dawei, the first CEO of CBA company, once revealed to me that he was also very grateful to teacher Xu for his support to the later generations. Wang Dawei also served in the Olympic organizing committee in 2008 and was helped by teacher da Xu. He revealed that it was under the recommendation of teacher da Xu to Da Yao that he had the opportunity to be the CEO of CBA company.
After the winter olympics in 2022, mr. da xu officially retired from xinhua news agency and was invited to china basketball association to serve as a member of the transition leading group and a member of the joint party committee of china basketball union basket management center. According to the established arrangement of the change, he was in charge of the basketball industry, so he represented the basketball association in many basketball league activities since then.
In the middle of December 2022, Mr. Xu was officially elected as the vice chairman of the Basketball Association. Among the four vice chairmen of the Basketball Association, he ranked third. After Wang Fang, who was in charge of the competition of the Chinese Basketball national team, he was in charge of the basketball industry. That is, he is in charge of all the business development and operation of the basketball industry under the name of China Basketball Association (business development of China basketball team, CBA, WCBA, NBL, CBO and super three league matches), at the beginning of 2023, according to the established arrangement, he succeeded Yao Ming as the chairman of deep basket Sports, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Basketball Association, and now it is natural to replace Yao Ming as the chairman of CBA company.
With Mr. Da Xu officially became the chairman of CBA company this time, he will be responsible for the development of China’s basketball industry. On weekdays, he needs to deeply participate in the management of the two major basketball enterprises of deep basket sports and CBA company as the chairman, specifically in charge of CBA, WCBA, NBL, super three league, CBO and other Chinese Basketball Association’s All basketball events.
Over the years, teacher Xu has been a witness of the above-mentioned basketball leagues from scratch. Among them, in the era of Li Yuanwei, teacher Xu was a specific depiction of the grand blueprint of CBA in Polaris plan, he is also the specific planner of CBO league. He has always been enthusiastic about China’s basketball industry. After retiring from the media post, he can manage these events as chairman of the board, this is a valuable experience beyond the reach of most media people. I sincerely wish him the ambition of his youth and hope that he will continue to have the discerning eye and reward in these positions.
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