Yao: 'Sports can teach children virtues' not learned in classrooms

Basketball icon Yao Ming said he thinks his presence in a popular reality TV show could draw more attention to children's all-round development through sports activities.

Entering the entertainment business has become trendy for retired athletes to stay in the public eye, but that's not the case for Yao, despite his participation in the hit reality TV show Where Are We Going, Dad?.

The show, which features trips of fathers and children set audience records in the first season and became a nationwide sensation following word that Yao would participate in the upcoming second season.