Game for growth

Shaolin Temple is taking a major step forward in its digitization by developing a gaming app to teach users kung fu on their mobile phones.

"The temple can use its 'warrior monks' as the main characters of the mobile phone game," Lin Xiaosong, chairman of Dengfeng Tiandizhizhong Network Development Corp, which manages the Shaolin brand, told Xinhua News Agency.

"The game will integrate kung fu with swords and sticks to teach martial arts interactively, so that users won't have to climb Songshan Mountain where Shaolin is located to learn its kung fu."