Using influence to promote gymnastics

Political adviser Zou Kai will welcome a baby soon. Although the former Olympic gymnastics champion has not decided whether to encourage his child to become a professional gymnast on the world stage, he knows what he has to do now - to promote the sport among more children as a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

"As a CPPCC member, we carried out research based on our own work," said the 31-year-old, who is now deputy dean of the gymnastics department at Sichuan Sports College and deputy director of the Sichuan gymnastics administrative center.

"I'm now working to combine basic gymnastics training with education at kindergartens and schools."