80 years on, passion for basketball still remains in mountainous county
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TAIYUAN, China, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) 85-year-old Gao Xu still looks alive when speaking of basketball. He can remember vividly sitting in Yanzhai village as a child, watching soldiers of the Chinese Eighth Route Army playing the sport about 80 years ago. There was no basketball court back then, so the soldiers set up two wooden poles on the open ground, nailed an iron ring on them, made a simple basketball hoop, and started to play, said Gao.
Qinyuan County, where Gao lives, is located in a mountainous area in north China s Shanxi Province on the site of an old revolutionary base. The Eighth Route Army brought basketball here during China s war against Japanese aggression, and since then, the sport has thrived here for nearly 80 years.