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The turnover of the Beijing Score Baseball Development Co has risen and the company becomes more influential due to the China Beijing International Fair for Trade in Services, said Yan Jun, the company's general manager.
Yan said the 2014 fair brought him a big client, the Pinggu district education commission. "The commission officials tried playing baseball at the fair and thought it was interesting," he said.
His company cooperated with the commission last year to help primary schools as well as junior and senior middle schools in the district run baseball courses and organize teams.
According to Yan, more than 200 people tried the sport in the first two days of this year's fair, which started on Saturday and ends on Wednesday, and some applied to join the baseball club of Yan's company.
Ma Shuai, who works in the industry investment promotion bureau of Kangbashi New Zone in the city of Ordos, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, said he hopes the bureau would have the opportunity to cooperate with Yan's company and develop baseball in Ordos.
Ma said Ordos expects to attract more tourists from South Korea, where baseball is popular, after it opened an air route with the country in April. Cooperation with Yan's company would benefit both the city and the company, Ma said.
A focus of the sports service section at the 2016 fair is ice and snow sports, which will be part of the 2022 Winter Olympics, to be hosted by Beijing and Zhangjiakou in Hebei province. CTC Group Ltd, a Canadian ice and snow refrigeration specialist, has a display at the fair where visitors can try the sport of curling.
"We introduced our synthetic curling to Asia for the first time and want to know the fair's visitors' feelings about it," said Johnny Wu, sales vice-president at CTC Group.
He said many visitors enjoyed curling, especially children. "We are satisfied with the test result and considering launching synthetic curling with training programs in China to promote ice-snow culture in the country," he said.
Chad McMullan, president at Rock Solid Productions Inc, which has a partnership with Wu's company, said: "The fair is a good opportunity to meet people interested in helping develop curling and see what we can do for developing winter sports before the 2022 Winter Olympics."
According to a document released in March, Beijing plans to have 8 million residents involved in ice and snow sports and provide a good service system for such sports by the end of 2022.
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