Under the new competition system introduced by FIBA last year, the Asian Cup serves as the first stage of competition for Olympic qualification, with the tournament's eight best teams offered the chance to compete in November's Olympic qualifiers.

China is placed in Group B with Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.

A total of 14 players, including center Han Xu, who has just returned from WNBA duty, joined in the training camp, held before Xu names the final 12-woman list for the Asian Cup.

"Our team's performance is much better than Monday. After the match, we also learned about our opponents. Then everyone played with spirit today and dared to use physical confrontation. You must have the initiative to be aggressive, and then the teams compete with each other for the ball," said captain Shao Ting.

Shao, who has also played in the WNBA, wants to transfer her experience in international tournaments to the newcomers in this young team.

"We hope to play an improving game, and then we can solve the problems before the Asian Cup as early as possible. Including Han Xu from the WNBA who just returned, we also hope to run the whole team through the competition. So there is still a need for more competitions for the team to get together, for everyone to understand each other," she said.

"We also hope to continue to exercise throughout the competition, and then to stimulate the potential of young players to let them accumulate experience in the competition," she added.

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