GUANGZHOU - "We are one big happy family" are catchwords of the ongoing 8th Chinese Traditional Games of Ethnic Nationalities.

"We don't care how many medals we will bring home. Nothing is more important than participation, " said Hua Jiazhi, head of the Taiwan provincial delegation that represents Amoi, Taiya and Bunong people.

Local residents of Guangzhou and spectators take part in a get-together on the sideline of the 8th Chinese Traditional Games of Ethnic Nationalities November 11, 2007. [Xinhua] It is Taiwan's fifth consecutive appearance at the quadrennial games since making debut in 1991.

The Taiwan provincial team, comprised of 60 members, will take part in one medal event - Mongolian-style wrestling as well as six demonstration events.

"We feel very much at home here. That's why we chose to perform to a folk song entitled 'We Are All from One Family,'" one of the middle school students from Taiwan told reporters at the reception dinner Saturday hosted by the Guangzhou municipality.

China has 56 ethnic groups, with the largest, the Han, making up 92 percent of the country's population. According to the local organizing committee, more than 6,000 athletes representing the 55 ethnic groups are taking part in the Guangzhou games.

Guli Bana, a 16-year-old high school student in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was selected as the sports ambassador of the Uygur ethnic group.

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