1959 In the 25th World Table Tennis Championships, Rong Guotuan successively defeated the world famous table tennis players, and won the first world champion of men's singles table tennis for China and the first world champion of New China.
China's world champion
Up to now, China table tennis team has won 125.5 world championships, three world table tennis championships and two Olympic gold medals.
China's first Olympic champion
1988 at the Seoul Olympics, table tennis entered the Olympic Games for the first time. Chen Longcan and his partner Wei made it all the way through without any pressure and got on the podium of the doubles champion, the first Olympic table tennis champion in China.
Olympic champion 16
By the end of the 2008 Olympic Games, China table tennis won 16 championships in six Olympic Games.