Quotable

An institution combining traditional Chinese culture and people's modern lifestyles is the best way to prolong the Olympic spirit."

Sun Qijun, deputy director of Beijing's Chaoyang district government, talking of a new exhibition sponsored by the Palace Museum at Olympic Park.

I won't leave the sport after retiring, and I hope more youngsters can fulfill their dreams through basketball like I did."

Mengke Bateer, the first Chinese player on an NBA championship-winning team, who recently retired.

"I was lying in a trench with another soldier when a bullet tore right into him. Those are things you try not to remember, but every time you think about it, you feel only pain."

Huang Yueyi, 90, survivor of a battle in Henan province during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) in which 100 men from his unit were killed. The 70th anniversary of the war's end is being commemorated in China.

(China Daily European Weekly 08/14/2015 page2)