Wonderful game is fun in the ＂ball＂

　　Zhang Heqing Our reporter Wu Jing Dai Yuewen/map

　　From December 2 nd to December 16 th, the 6th CBSA Chinese Billiards World Championships started passionately in Yushan County. 496 players from 41 countries and regions around the world gathered in Yushan and staged a wonderful and fierce peak matchup.

　　The total prize money of this competition reached 10.43 million yuan, including 3 million for the men’s team and 1 million for the women’s team. Numerous award-winning places and generous competition bonuses have attracted the world’s top billiards players to compete, which is not only a wonderful guarantee for the competition, but also a strong impetus for the sustainable development of Chinese billiards.

　　"My goal in this competition is to enter the quarter-finals. Although it is very difficult, I will go all out!" Russian player Lutzke began to learn American billiards at the age of ten, but now he has a strong interest in Chinese billiards. He has participated in the Chinese billiards World Championships for three consecutive years. "I like Chinese billiards and prefer Yushan, a small and beautiful city."

　　As a billiards project with independent intellectual property rights in China, Chinese billiards became popular in China as soon as it came out in the 1980s, and became a widespread sport in China. In 2015, China Billiards Association initiated the CBSA Chinese Billiards World Championship and held it for five consecutive times in Yushan. This billiards game invented by China people has been gradually accepted by billiards players and fans all over the world. The rules and skills of Chinese billiards have been spread around the world, and more and more countries and regions have begun to incorporate it into their own billiards system. Chinese billiards has become an important part of the world billiards game.

　　In recent years, Yushan has made every effort to build a county-level sports brand featuring billiards, successfully hosted the 5th Chinese Billiards World Championships, the 4th Chinese Billiards World Open and the Chinese Billiards International Professional League, implemented three major industrial projects, namely "International Billiards Cultural City, Star Billiards Industrial Park and Top Billiards Tournament", and gradually stepped out of the road of high-quality development of county-level sports, from resources to products, from products to events, from events to culture and from culture to brands.