National Peasants' Games
The National Peasants' Games (simplified Chinese: 中华人民共和国农民运动会; traditional Chinese: 中華人民共和國農民運動會; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Nóngmín Yùndònghuì) were a quadrennial multi-sport event in China in which competitors from among the country's 750 million rural residents take part in sports, both conventional - including basketball, athletics, table tennis, shooting, xiangqi (Chinese chess) and tai chi, and traditional rural and Chinese activities, such as wushu, dragon boat racing, lion dancing, tyre pushing, food-carrying, rice planting, kite flying, jianzi (kick shuttlecock) and tug of war. All of China's 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, as well as Taiwan, were represented.