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No idea on million-yuan bonus for Chinese women's volleyball team

Back at home after recapturing the world championship Chinese women's volleyball team received much attention. Apart from attending various celebration activities, they are awarded a bonus of two million yuan. Xu Li, director of the volleyball management center of the State General Administration of Sport said frankly that the center has yet no idea about how to spend the bonus since the volleyball department has never received such kind of award.


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Back at home after recapturing the world championship Chinese women's volleyball team received much attention. Apart from attending various celebration activities, they are awarded a bonus of two million yuan. Xu Li, director of the volleyball management center of the State General Administration of Sport said frankly that the center has yet no idea about how to spend the bonus since the volleyball department has never received such kind of award.

The two-million-yuan bonus is from the Guangdong Bubugao Electronic Company Ltd. and the Amoi Electronics Company that have been in close cooperation with Chinese women's volleyball in recent two years. Their donation this time is the first bonus the women's volleyball team has received after winning the world championship.

Xu Li said at the donation ceremony that Chinese women's volleyball team has never had such excellent performance since the retirement of the old generation of women's volleyball who got five-straight championships and so it have never had such amount of bonus. We are really not well prepared for it and have no experience. So we have no idea about how to spend the money yet. He said, the volleyball management center will spend the bonus on Chinese women's volleyball abiding by the relevant regulations issued by the State General Administration of Sport on outside bonus.

Speaking of the income of the champions team members at present, a focus question among outsiders, Xu Li said that the State General Administration of Sport has an award standard in this respect. But since we have never had such experience, we have not yet made it clear. Moreover, Xu confirmed that the Chinese Volleyball Association will award the team members but the amount is yet to be decided.



Article from China News Service, translated by PD Online staff Gao Lanrong


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