The high-speed railway line connecting Beijing and Zhangjiakou, the co-host city of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, officially went into operation today.

will reduce the 174km journey between Beijing and Zhangjiakou from over three hours to 47 minutes, the China

Ten years ago, at the end of the Noughties, I was given the perfect laptop bag. It is sturdy, compact and sensibly compartmentalised. I still take it on every overseas trip. 

In that economic annus horribilis of 2009, China grew at 9.4 per cent while the only other nation with

North Korea are set to announce they will not compete in the third round of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in South Korea in February - ending their chances of reaching Tokyo 2020.

beaten their rivals from the North once in 19 meetings.Four other teams in the third round - Australia, China

Thailand and Chinese Taipei - were drawn into Group B and are scheduled to play their matches in Wuhan in China

In a year of landmark achievements in women's weightlifting, there was one occurrence that might have escaped the attention of those who focus only on results.

China and the United States took women’s weightlifting seriously way back in the 1980s, Colombia’s many

Italian athletes were responsible for comfortably the most confirmed anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) in 2017, according to new statistics made public by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

States on 103.Russia was fifth with 82 ADRVs, just behind Brazil on 84.The most populous nations – China

testing when it comes to catching them.Five of these 28 cases were from Russia, with three each from China

There is a four-way tie for the lead after eight rounds of the women's event at the King Salman World Rapid Championships in Moscow.

points.The Norwegian had two draws and three consecutive wins on day two.Overnight leader Wang Hao of China

Liu Dongwei has been elected President of the China Floorball Union (CFU) at a meeting where the organisation's

were elected as advisors of the CFU Council at its first National Member Congress.The CFU replaced the China

2020 were also given the green light at the Congress.The CFU aims to improve the state of floorball in China

Handball, Hockey, Baseball and Softball Administrative centre of General Administration of Sport of China

The establishment of the CFU will further promote the popularity and development of the program in China

The King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships are set to begin tomorrow at Central Chess Club in Moscow.

coincidence.The women’s events will bring together all the best except world champion Ju Wenjun of China

Tokyo is reported to be still short of 14,000 hotel rooms required during the hosting of Olympic and Paralympic Games next year - when a new estimate says visitors to Japan will increase by 7.9 per cent from 2019.

will rise by around 15 per cent from 2019 following an improvement in bilateral ties.Visitors from China

The subject of quorums last hit the front page of insidethegames towards the end of last year’s Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.

being on the agenda, the body could not get enough members to attend its Executive Committee meeting in China

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President René Fasel has suggested he could work in Russia when he steps down from his role next year.

Fasel also said he has received job offers from China to help the country with the development of ice

The [Chinese] Sports Minister [Gou Zhongwen] told me, 'Rene, you should come to China to work for the

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has revealed that world football’s governing body has had nine offers to buy the commercial rights to the Club World Cup, which he is hoping to make the "best club tournament in the world".

will return to the country next year prior to an expanded 24-team tournament starting in 2021, with China

A record nine nations will feature in the 2020 Women’s Bandy World Championships in Oslo, organisers have announced. 

2014.The two teams have met in every gold medal contested at the tournament to date.Finland, Norway, China

UK Sport announced a funding boost for basketball, archery, fencing, skateboarding and wheelchair fencing for next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

campaign.Following their run to the semi-finals of the EuroBasket tournament in July, the squad will now travel to China

’s basketball team and wish the squad every success as they prepare for their Olympic qualifiers in China

Japan's Public Security Intelligence Agency has warned in its annual end-of-year report that cyber-attacks targeting next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo are among the biggest threats the country faces.

recipients were potential targets of a phishing campaign by a hacker group widely believed to be from China