An increasing number of sports games have been created to cater to athletes of different levels, age groups and backgrounds.

From youths to seniors, from summer sports to winter, Chinese athletes could always find suitable games at home to take part in.

Since the Beijing Olympic Games, there has been a debate in China about whether the pursuit of Olympic medals should be downgraded and more government efforts and funding devoted to school sports and popular sports.

The State Council of China carried out a series of measures to try to get more of China's 1.3 billion people involved in sports.

Several multi-sports games involving amateur athletes, like the All-China Games, the Students' Games, the University Games, the Farmers' Games and the Ethnic Games, play a crucial role in promoting sports and making life more fun.

The All-China Games is an event for non-Olympic sports, providing platforms for model aircraft, orienteering, skydiving and other rising sports, while the Ethnic Games gathers 55 Chinese ethnic groups, which account about 8.49 percent of the country's population, and features plenty of sports which are never contested at any other games, like dragon-boat racing, shuttle-cock kicking and pear ball event.

More for fun than for medals, the Chinese Farmers' Games features fishing, Xiangqi, or Chinese chess, Chinese-style wrestling, lion dance and load-bearing biking.

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