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...Designed by renowned architect Kris Yao, the school’s circular structure includes ponds, water lilies and a pavilion, resembling US tech group Apple’s Silicon Valley campus....
...Interest in basketball exploded in the early 2000s, when Yao Ming began a nine-year career for Houston Rockets — Mr Morey’s team....
...The Rockets are a favourite among Chinese fans, in part because of the legacy of former star Yao Ming, China’s best-known player who is now head of China’s basketball association and who spent his entire...
...China: Yao Ming. The gigantic former basketball star is wildly popular and a perfect symbol of growing Chinese might....
...There are also no mainland Chinese stars to bring the game to China the way the Shanghai-born Yao Ming did when he became an NBA basketball sensation in the US....
...For years, China’s 7ft, 6-inch basketball superstar Yao Ming used his height to slam dunk over the heads of opponents....
...The sport has gained particularly fervent support in China, where basketball took off during the career of Yao Ming, a Chinese superstar who played for the Houston Rockets between 2002 and 2011....
...The most recent example is the world’s tallest rice plant, which Chinese media have dubbed the Yao Ming of rice after the Chinese basketball star....
...Chinese celebrities such as Yao Ming, the retired basketball star, have fronted national campaigns against the consumption of ivory, shark fin and other wildlife products....
...“It was designed by a famous Taiwanese architect, Kris Yao, and is the complete opposite of the Taipei museum,” he says....
...Former NBA basketball player Yao Ming (2nd L) walks past security personnel as he arrives for the closing session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) outside the Great Hall...
...Ming had on Chinese basketball....
...China threw its resources at landing the games, sending both Yao Ming, its superstar former basketball player and Liu Yandong, a vice-premier and the highest ranking female Communist party member....
...Key Chinese names to watch in Rio include swimmer Ning Zetao, basketballer Zhou Qi, who is seen as the next Yao Ming, and sprinter Su Bingtian, who became the first Asian athlete to break ten seconds in...
...Even Yao Ming, the 7ft 6in Chinese basketball star, launched a Napa wine label in 2009, and now sells Yao Family Wines to China. He visits four times a year to help steer the creation of the wines....
...To use the analogy of another, admiring tech investor: “Neil Shen would have invested in [Chinese basketball superstar] Yao Ming when he was five, and I would not have had the courage to invest in him even...
...A wholesale trader in the same city said Yao Ming’s participation in the campaign had “single-handedly smashed my business”....
...He has also helped to mobilise celebrities, building on the success of awareness campaigns in China, led by basketball star Yao Ming, which are credited with reducing the consumption of shark fin soup....
...“We’re not just any teenagers, we’re a teenage Yao Ming,” she says, alluding to the former NBA basketball star....
...according to Brook Larmer’s 2005 book, Operation Yao Ming....
...As a result the NBA boasts impressive television viewership, along with branded restaurants and coaching centres, all helped along by the huge popularity of Yao Ming, a recently retired NBA star....
..., beyondbrics NBA scores as basketball’s appeal abroad grows, FT Yao Ming’s retirement could hurt NBA in China, ESPN...
...China is now the world’s second-largest economy and it boasts most of the elements of a modern society, including global celebrities such as basketball player Yao Ming, actor Fan Bingbing and the artist...
...(Yao Ming, the former basketball star and national hero, is a neighbour)....
...So Yao Ming, the retired NBA centre who stands 7 foot 6 inches tall, has always had a bit of an advantage in his home country – and not just on the basketball court....
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