Networking usually means, to business people anyway, the chance to meet and talk to potentially useful contacts. However to a particular young Chinese woman, it means driving a ball hard enough to stop her opponent hitting it back over the net. Zheng Jie is a professional tennis player. She is currently ranked world number 18, making her China and Asia’s highest-ranked women’s singles player.  At Wimbledon in 2008 Zheng became greatly admired not just because she became the first Chinese player ever to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam singles, but because she donated her winnings to the victims of the 2008 earthquake in her native Sichuan province.

ChinaOne Call wishes Zheng continued success in 2009.

The BAC acts as the unified voice of all Olympic, Paralympic and World Class funded athletes. It communicates their views to the major decision makers within British sport, and promotes athlete representation within their sports. The BAC works to provide all athletes with a way to make their voices heard and a pathway to pursue and resolve any problems they encounter within their sport.

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25 year old Chen Xiexia (陈燮霞) from Guangdong Province has, this morning, won the gold medal in the women’s 48kg weightlifting event. She also set two new Olympic records with a lift total of 212kg and a final clean and jerk heave of 117kg. Chen’s victory represents the host nation’s first gold medal of the Beijing 2008 Games.

Chris Horton from GoKunming interviewed me a couple of days ago about chinaONEcall, running a call centre in Kunming and the challenges facing the telephone interpreting industry. The story appeared today.