The team - which has just ended a month-long coaching debacle, with local coach Shang Ruihua replacing outgoing French head Elisabeth Loisel last month - will open its Olympic campaign on Oct 6 against Sweden in Tianjin.
The 63-year-old Shang, who guided the Chinese team to the quarterfinals at the inaugural Women's World Cup in 1991, has once again been handed the national team's reins.
As the man who laid the foundations of the team that won silver at Atlanta 1996 and then at the 1999 Women's World Cup, Shang is cautious about China's Olympic prospects.
"We are not a world top level team any more. We are lagging far behind, compared with how we were in the late 1990s," Shang said.
"Though we are not in the same group as Germany, US or Brazil, we still do not have much of an advantage over the teams in our group. We have to play our best if we want to beat any of them. "
"We do not have more time to prepare. All we can do right now is work harder and rely on better teamwork. We will try our best in every match and hope to get a good result at the Olympics."
Most of the attention will be focused on Group F, which has Asian powerhouse North Korea, World Cup winner Germany, World Cup runner-up Brazil and the rapidly-improving Nigeria.
Germany is looking to add another Olympic title to its belt while Brazil, which was just a step away from the Olympic gold medal when it lost to the US in Athens, hopes not to let history repeat itself again.
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