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BEIJING, Sept. 28-- The Five-Starred Red Flag fluttered across the Maruzen Intec Arena with the resounding "March of the volunteers" echoing, chanting for another glorious victory in the history of the Chinese sports as China women's volleyball team stormed to the World Cup champions with ten straight wins in Osaka, Japan on Saturday. "Everytime we play, we hold the same determination to raise our national flag and play the national anthem," Lang Ping, China women's volleyball team head coach, noted at the beginning of the tournament. With two days to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the team of illustrious past has given its home country a timely and inspiring birthday gift. For a nation once labelled as the "Sick Man of East Asia", Sports has a great significance that goes beyond itself. During the country's 70-year leaping development, Chinese sports have always been an indispensable role in motivating generations after generations. Emerging from scratch "The Spirit of China Women's Volleyball Team," known for hard work and never giving up, is undoubtedly one of the greatest representatives of Chinese sports, which was all originated from a rough training center built of bamboo in Zhangzhou, Fujian province. "The training center was built in 1972. It consisted of five bamboo scaffold courts with cement floors. The players were bleeding every time they fell down as gravels scraped their arms and legs," Zhong Jiaqi, the former head of Zhangzhou volleyball training center, recalled. | 
